LONDON A new method of detecting homemade explosives will help forensic experts trace where they came from, scientists said Friday. The approach, described in the journal Analytica Chimica Acta, uses ion chromatography—high resolution mass spectrometry. Scientists at King’s College London Northumbria University in the UK found that using this technique,Read More

SAN FRANCISCO Despite criticism and work pressure complaints from its warehouse employees, e-commerce giant Amazon has quietly begun rolling out its one-day Prime shipping, cutting down from the traditional two-day delivery window. “We have been able to confirm the new option showing up on various Prime items with a newRead More

NEW DELHI While eight in 10 mothers in India believe technology has made parenting easier, 70 per cent mothers claim to have used a smartphone for rearing their kids, according to a new survey. Smartphone is the most widely used device for parenting, but only 38 per cent would recommendRead More

NEW YORK Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI)-based system that can detect signs of anxiety and depression in the speech patterns of young children. The research published in the Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics suggests a machine learning algorithm might provide a fast and easy way of diagnosingRead More

NEW YORK Smartwatches, with a few tweaks, can detect a surprising number of things your hands are doing like helping your spouse with washing dishes, chopping vegetables or petting a dog, say researchers from Carnegie Mellon University. By making a few changes to the smartwatch’s operating system, they were ableRead More

Dr Debraj Shome Excessive use of smartphones may be leading to this spiralling trend of sagging chins and thickening jaw lines. Commonly called ‘smartphone face’ or ‘text neck’, sitting for hours with the head bent forward, staring at your mobile or laptop screen can shorten the neck muscles People craneRead More

SAN FRANCISCO Facebook-owned Instagram has quietly appointed new executives to head its design, engineering and communications teams, the media reported. The new hires come at a time when CEO Mark Zuckerberg is working to more closely integrate Facebook’s suite of apps, including Messenger and WhatsApp, video news network Cheddar reportedRead More

LONDON An innovative 3D solar-cell design with a radically different architecture which drives down the costs of cell manufacture may define the future of renewable energy as it potentially reduces optical losses within a device, according to UK scientists. The scientists at the University of Sheffield and energy technology companyRead More

Roughly a decade from now, a rather sizable space rock is going to have a very close encounter with Earth — on Friday the 13th, no less. On April 13th, 2029, the asteroid known as Apophis will pass by Earth at a distance of just 19,000 miles. For a bitRead More

Cupertino (California) Riding on the growth in its Services and wearable segments, Apple has posted a revenue of $58 billion for its second quarter of 2019 — a decline of 5 per cent from the year-ago quarter. The revenue from iPhones was $31.05 billion — down from the year-ago quarterRead More