Bengaluru (IANS) Three students of Bharti Vidyapeeth College of Engineering in Delhi developed an Android app to measure the alarming pollution levels in the National Capital Region (NCR), the US-based Marconi Society, which awarded them…
San Francisco (IANS) Social networking giant Facebook has apologised after letting an ad campaign targeting its users interested in "White genocide conspiracy theory".
News site The Intercept had no trouble in launching…
New Delhi (IANS): With the 30th Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer opening in Ecuador on Monday, an environmental group urged it to act fast to curb ozone-depleting gas trichlorofluoromethane,…
New York (IANS) Exposure to high levels of radio frequency radiation (RFR) -- used in 2G and 3G cell phones -- can increase the risk of cancerous tumours in the heart, brain and adrenal gland, researchers have warned.
The study,…
Chennai (IANS): Researchers at Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IITM) have designed and booted up India's first microprocessor, Shakti, which could be used in mobile computing and other devices.
According to IITM, the Shakti microprocessor…
Washington (IANS): NASA has decided to retire its Kepler space telescope that had run out of fuel needed for further science operations.
Working in deep space for nine years, Kepler has discovered more than 2,600 planets from outside our solar…
Washington (IANS): NASA's historic Parker Solar Probe -- en route to the Sun to unravel its mysteries -- has become the closest spacecraft to it.
The spacecraft passed the current record of 26.55 million miles from the Sun's surface…
Redmond (Washington State)(IANS): In a significant operation earlier this month, the cyber cell of Delhi Police arrested 24 people who posed as Microsoft tech support staff and duped several US citizens.
This could not have been possible without…
London (IANS) London-based auction house Christie's has announced an online sale of 22 items from the late British physicist Stephen Hawking including one of his wheelchairs and complex scientific papers.
The scientific papers,…
Sydney, (IANS): Eating vegetable nitrates, found mainly in green leafy vegetables and beetroot, could prevent macular degeneration, a common cause of vision loss in people over age 50, new research has found.
People who ate between 100…