New Delhi (IANS): In a fresh attempt to woo children into joining its network and boost user growth, Facebook is testing a new hub called "LOL" that will let kids share and post humorous meme content.
A Facebook spokesperson confirmed…
Kolkata (IANS/Mongabay): India's national aquatic animal, the endangered Gangetic river dolphin (Platanista gangetica gangetica), is rarely visible in the waterways of the Indian Sundarbans. A study sheds light on the rise in salinity in…
Bengaluru (IANS): The Light Combat Helicopter (LCH) developed by state-run Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) has completed weapon trials and is ready for operational induction, the defence behemoth said on Thursday.
"The LCH achieved a milestone…
California (IANS): YouTube videos that depict dangerous or emotionally distressing "pranks" have been banned from the platform.
The move comes in response to the so-called "challenges" that have sometimes resulted in death…
New Delhi (IANS): Good news for train passengers: the Indian Railways has linked its locomotives via ISRO satellites, making it easy to track trains and automatically feed the control charts about the trains arrival and departure, officials said.
…Hong Kong (IANS): Does your child often feel stressed and depressed? A walk in the woods is likely to improve his/her mood, researchers said.
The study, led by a team from the University of Hong Kong, revealed that children who developed a…
Washington (IANS) Nobel laureate James Watson, co-discoverer of the DNA helix and father of the Human Genome Project, has been stripped of honors by his laboratory following "reprehensible" remarks on race and ethnicity.
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Washington (IANS): The world's oceans were warming at an accelerated rate and were much warmer due to climate change than scientists previously thought, according to a new study.
The data, published in Thursday's edition of the journal…
Washington (IANS): Scientists have discovered the second repeating fast radio burst released into space far outside the Milky Way galaxy, according to a study.
Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are intense pulses of radio waves lasting just milliseconds…
Bengaluru (IANS) IBM investors from India earned over 800 patents -- the second highest contributor to the company's global record of 9,100 patent in the US in 2018 -- with nearly half in the fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI),…