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We trust people with similar accents, says study

Research found trust-related decisions about accented speakers are more difficult due to our underlying bias for members...

19 Sept 2018 8:29 AM IST

Approach from the Northwestern Medicine scientists allowed the behaviour of individual virions, infectious particles, to be connected to infectivity. (Photo: Pixabay)

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Better therapies may be in offing with novel HIV tracking approach

Research used novel live-cell fluorescent imaging system that allowed them to identify individual particles associated...

19 Aug 2017 10:29 AM IST

Crew members looking out the cockpit windows of a RNZAF P3 Orion during search operations for wreckage and debris of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean. (Photo: AFP)

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Scientists potentially narrow MH370 search area to 3 spots

The expanse adjoins original search zone far southwest Australia identified via satellite analysis of the final hours of...

16 Aug 2017 1:01 PM IST

WhatsApps end-to-end encryption relies on the generation of unique security keys, using the Signal protocol that are traded and verified between users to guarantee communications are secure.

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WhatsApp users vulnerable to malicious attacks, suggests new study

Researchers found that majority of users are vulnerable to malicious attacks because they either don't know about...

14 Aug 2017 9:25 AM IST

This output from a sequencing machine includes the UW teams exploit, which is being sequenced with a number of unrelated strands. Each dot represents one strand of DNA in a given sample. (Image: Dennis Wise/University of Washington)

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Researcher hacks system using malware encoded in DNA

DNA sequencing tools lack robust protections against cybersecurity risks.

11 Aug 2017 8:12 AM IST

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System that creates videos of the future

Given a still image, CSAIL deep-learning system generates videos that predict what will happen next in a scene.

29 Nov 2016 12:04 PM IST

The participants will not be confined but will wear spacesuits whenever they step outside for geological expeditions, mapping studies or other tasks.

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Freeze-dried food and 1 bathroom: 6 simulate Mars in dome

Crammed into a dome with one bathroom, six scientists will spend eight months munching on mostly freeze-dried foods.

21 Jan 2017 9:51 AM IST

This real-time detector sees hand poses and tracks multiple people. (Image: Carnegie Mellon University)

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A computer that understands body poses, movements

This new method was developed with the help of the Panoptic Studio, a two-story dome embedded with 500 video cameras.

12 July 2017 2:34 PM IST

Last year, a tiny piece of debris punched a gaping hole in the solar panel of Copernicus Sentinel-1A, an observation satellite operated by the European Space Agency, or ESA.

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Chinese researchers teleport object to orbit for the first time

The object-in-question is a photon, which travelled from Gobi desert to a satellite called Micius' orbiting 500...

12 July 2017 10:02 AM IST

According to IFA Global, a forex and treasury solution firm, the Indian rupee is the third best performing Asian currencies this year, up 4.63 per cent in the March quarter, its best quarterly gains since September 2012.

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Rupee to weaken by end of 2017 to around Rs 66/USD: report

Rallying oil prices all over the world harbour bad news for rupee as India is a large net oil importer.

9 July 2017 12:21 PM IST

After Cyanogenmod shut down its operations, the phones stopped receiving software updates, letting its potential customers switch to other Chinese brands for better value. (image: Techradar)

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New app improves memory in people with cognitive decline

A small trial found that patients who played the game had around a 40% improvement in memory scores.

3 July 2017 9:53 AM IST

Powders of tantalum nitride nanoparticles (left), tungsten oxide nanowires (centre) and the tantalum nitride/tungsten oxide composite (right). Credit: Daniel Jones/Swansea University.

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New material removes water pollutants using solar energy

The novel, non-hazardous photo-catalytic material developed researchers at Swansea University adsorbs more than 90 per...

1 July 2017 3:49 PM IST