Sydney Researchers in Australia have found a way to increase wheat production by up to three times through their “speed breeding” procedures inspired by NASA experiments to grow the crop in space. The NASA experiments involved using continuous light on wheat that triggered early reproduction in the plants, said LeeRead More

New York A rise of just 2 degrees Celsius in global warming could make over a quarter of the world’s land to become drier and more desert like, increasing the threat of widespread drought and wildfires, new research led by one of Indian origin has found. The study showed thatRead More

San Francisco, January 2 Facebook-owned mobile messaging app WhatsApp has stopped working on smartphones that support ‘BlackBerry OS’, ‘BlackBerry 10’, ‘Windows Phone 8.0’ and older platforms in the New Year. ”These platforms don’t offer the kind of capabilities we need to expand our app’s features in the future,” a spokespersonRead More

New Delhi, January 2 The price of the first-generation Pixel XL “quite black” colour variant was slashed by Rs 36,000 on e-commerce platform Amazon on Tuesday. Still tagged as one of the most bankable devices that offer pure Android experience, the smartphone that earlier cost Rs 76,000 is now availableRead More

Singapore Data from your smartphone sensors can reveal PINs and passwords to hackers and allow them to unlock your mobile devices, according to a study led by an Indian-origin scientist. Instruments in smart phones such as the gyroscope and proximity sensors represent a potential security vulnerability, said researchers from NanyangRead More

BERLIN: A new wrist-worn gadget may help people with sleep problems by objectively tracking their real-life sleep habits and quality, scientists say. The gadget, called actimeter, records data on wrist movement from which one can obtain activity patterns for up to three months. The researchers from the Ludwig Maximilian UniversityRead More

London Scientists have discovered the equivalent of smoke-rings in the Tasman Sea which may ‘suck-up’ small marine creatures and carry them at high speed and for long distances across the ocean. The rings were spotted by analysing sea level measurements taken from satellites together with sea surface temperature images fromRead More

New Delhi: At a time when bitcoins are in focus for all the wrong reasons, cryptocurrency dealer Pluto Exchange on Thursday announced the launch of India`s first mobile application for transacting in the virtual currency. At a press conference here, Pluto Exchange Founder and Chief Executive Bharat Verma said thatRead More

New Delhi: Samsung and Xiaomi together contributed to almost half of the Indian smartphone market, according to research firm Counterpoint. Karn Chauhan, Research Analyst at Counterpoint Research said, “Samsung and Xiaomi together contributed to almost 45 percent of the Indian smartphone market.” “This is the first time since 2012, thatRead More

Washington Scientists have found how our solar solar system formed in the wind-blown bubbles around a giant, long-dead star. Despite the many impressive discoveries humans have made about the universe, scientists are still unsure about the birth story of our solar system. The general prevailing theory is that our solarRead More