YouTube bans dangerous, harmful pranks

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…

Railways links locomotives via ISRO satellites to automatically feed train status

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.

Being closer to nature can reduce distress, behavioural problems in kids

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…

Nobel Prize-winning DNA scientist disgraced

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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Oceans warming much faster than previously thought: Study

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…

Second fast radio burst detected in space

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…

IBM earns record patents in 2018, India 2nd highest contributor

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),…

Gut bacteria key to protecting against arsenic poisoning

New York (IANS): Microbes in the human gut play an important role in protecting against arsenic toxicity, new research suggests.

Arsenic toxicity is a problem that affects an estimated 200 million people worldwide who are exposed to arsenic…

No evidence of atmosphere on Ultima Thule: NASA

Washington (IANS): New Horizons spacecraft which explored the ancient Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule, earlier this week, has yielded that the distant object has no evidence of an atmosphere, NASA has said.

New Horizons completed…

China's space probe lands on Moon's far side

Beijing (IANS): China's Chang'e 4 space probe on Thursday became the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the far side of the moon, Xinhua news agency reported.

At 10.26 a.m. (Beijing time), the probe, comprising of a lander and…