Technology developed by CSIRO will sit at the heart of one of the world’s biggest ever science projects, following an agreement with China’s leading astronomical research organisation. The National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) has teamed up with CSIRO engineers in the development of the world’sRead More →

Morning traffic gets on your nerves? Don’t fall for road rage though! It might just reflect your background and culture. Aggressive driving behaviour is a reflection of a person’s surrounding culture, both on the road and on a broader social level, says a study. The findings suggest that some countriesRead More →

Melbourne, April 28: Inspired by the humble cactus, a new type of membrane has the potential to significantly boost the performance of fuel cells and transform the electric vehicle industry. The membrane, developed by scientists from CSIRO and Hanyang University in Korea, was described today in the journal Nature. TheRead More →

feature image credit – enterprisenk.com We often assume physical attraction will be an advantage in life. The same assumption goes for attractive sales people; that they will be able to increase shoppers’ purchase intention and satisfaction. However, a study by The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Business School suggestsRead More →

Facebook has rolled out a new tool to let Hindi speakers express themselves in the native language with ease. “We are now rolling out a lightweight Hindi editor inside the Facebook app for Android phones,” the social media giant said in a statement. When the app setting is turned on,Read More →

Kolkata: As many as 15 students from the Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur have been selected for the Google Summer of Code open-source coding programme, the institute said. The Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is an international annual programme, in which Google awards stipends (of $5,500 as of 2015) to allRead More →

It is a romantic story – well romantic story in the history of MATHEMATICS! It goes back to 1913 when an Iyengar man, Srinivasa Ramanujan and English mathematician and Cambridge professor G. H. Hardy, first marvelled at each other’s arithmetical forte. Srinivasa Ramanujan, born as Iyengar in 1887 in SouthRead More →

London, April 22: A team of South Korean doctors has found a link between excessive smartphone use and an eye condition in children before the age of five. According to a Telegraph report, doctors at Chonnam National University Hospital in Seoul found that heavy smartphone use has led to childrenRead More →

Thrilled at the detection of the elusive gravitational waves a century after Albert Einstein’s prediction and the first observation of collision of two black holes at the Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO), two young US-based Indian researchers working on the project, told Shahana Ghosh that the waves act as a sixth senseRead More →

While planning a visual task, your brain initially reflects the visual goal accurately but errors accumulate during a memory delay and further escalate during the final action, say scientists from York University. “Think of all the times you see something and plan to act on it but after only aRead More →