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Your stress can make you sense danger in harmless situations

A new study provides new data that will help us care for people with disordered patterns of fear and worry.

14 Aug 2017 3:50 PM IST

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Humans arrived in Southeast Asia 20,000 years earlier: study

A barrage of dating techniques were applied to the sediment around the fossils in a cave in Indonesia.

10 Aug 2017 1:44 PM IST

Zebrafish and newborn mammals, including mice and humans, have large numbers of MNDCMs and a relatively robust ability to regenerate heart muscle (Photo: Pixabay)

There are people who do not have permanent heart muscle loss, says...

According to researchers some people can naturally recover both heart muscle mass and function.

8 Aug 2017 10:46 AM IST

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Did you know humans are hardwired to lean right while kissing?

Over two-thirds of the kiss initiators and kiss recipients turn their heads to the right.

18 July 2017 9:38 AM IST

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Why humans can recognise faces and read?

The findings decipher the mechanism that lets humans reading this text, recognising faces, enjoying colours, say the...

12 March 2017 10:05 AM IST

One thing is for certain: AI systems are here to stay, and with time they will only get smarter. (Photo: Pixabay)

2017: When artificial intelligence outsmarted humans

One thing is for certain: AI systems are here to stay, and with time they will only get smarter.

28 Dec 2017 1:43 PM IST

The study is the first systemic mapping of brain lesions associated with criminal behaviour -referred to as acquired sociopathy. (Photo: Pixabay)

Now, new system can help machines think like humans

New reservoir computing system uses memristors, requires less space, can be integrated more easily into existing...

25 Dec 2017 8:10 AM IST

As technology continues to accelerate and machines begin learning more and more, good jobs are feared to be doomed by many. Computer programmers, journalists, receptionist, even priests are now poised to be replaced by robots at their jobs. They are no longer addressed as robots, instead they are being called humanoids, a robot with characteristics of a human. Four such robots have already been put as employees in certain jobs.

Robots learn how to respect humans' personal space

Using impedance control, researchers aimed to regulate the social dynamics between the robot's movements and its...

24 Dec 2017 5:57 PM IST

Using the Atacama array of radiotelescopes in the northern desert of Chile, two teams independently isolated the chemical signature of methyl isocyanate, and then followed up to probe the molecules origins. (Photo: AFP)

Key ingredient of life found circling infant stars

The findings could offer clues on how chemicals sparked into living matter on Earth several billion years ago.

9 Jun 2017 8:08 AM IST

The Moroccan specimens were found between 2007 and 2011 and include a skull, a jaw and teeth, along with stone tools.

Earliest fossils of our species found in Morocco

The fossils suggest that Homo sapiens may have reached its modern-day form in more than one place within Africa.

8 Jun 2017 11:54 AM IST

The researchers said the results show pigeons process space and time in ways similar to humans and other primates. (Photo: Pixabay)

Pigeons can discriminate both space, time: study

Humans are able to perceive space and time, even without the aid of inventions such as a watch or a ruler.

5 Dec 2017 4:08 PM IST

Dozens of the endangered creatures need rescuing every year around Watamu, where plastic litter accumulates in Indian Ocean. (Photo: Pixabay)

Sea turtles' sad fate: from restaurant menus to plastic 'soup'

Turtles confuse these items, bobbing and fluttering about in the ocean currents, for jellyfish or other prey.

4 Dec 2017 1:37 PM IST