Washington :  Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and the Pasteur Institute in France have been able to identify how alcohol might affect key brain proteins for the first time – thanks to a rare bacteria that grows only on [...]

Washington :  Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a depth camera/projector system that enables people to create computer interfaces on everyday surface using hand gestures. CMU’s WorldKit system enables someone to rub [...]

Washington :  An international team of scientists led by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), the CIBERER and the University of Wurzburg (Germany) has discovered a gene that can cause three totally different diseases, depending on [...]

Washington :   As women live longer and have fewer children, they are becoming taller and slimmer, a new study has shown. The study of people living in rural Gambia has revealed that the modern-day “demographic transition” towards [...]

Washington :   Bursts of star birth have a significantly greater effect on their host galaxy than previously thought, according to a new study. When galaxies form new stars, they sometimes do so in frantic episodes of activity known as starbursts. [...]

Washington :  Finding from new excavations at Ceibal, an ancient Maya site in Guatemala, have challenged the two prevailing theories on how early Maya civilization began, suggesting its origins are more complex than previously thought. The [...]

Washington :  Viewing sexually explicit material through media such as the Internet, videos, and magazines may be directly linked with the sexual behaviour of adolescents and young adults, but only to a very small extent, a new study has concluded. The [...]

Washington :  Europe’s largest-ever space-debris conference has expressed an urgent need to remove orbiting space debris and to fly satellites in the future without creating new fragments. The findings from the 6th European Conference on [...]

London :  A team of archaeologists has claimed that they have found 22,000-year-old stone tools at a site in Brazil. The finding, according to them, suggests humans lived in South America at the height of the last ice age, thousands of years [...]

Washington :  With the new Smart PJ, the task of reading bedtime stories to your kids could become much simpler and easier. The 25-dollar Smart PJ’s, which are available in pink and blue, have 47 colorful dot patterns that work with an app. When [...]