An aquatic scientist in Australia has filmed a video which shows thousands of giant spider crabs gathering on the shore of Port Phillip Bay near Melbourne to molt in a moving mass of shells and pincers. The clip shows these marine creatures piled on top of one another and stretching for hundreds of meters in […]
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Asus Launches A540LA and R558UR Laptops with USB Type-C in India
Asus has launched two new laptop models in India – the A540LA and the R558UR, both equipped with new USB Type-C port. The R558UR is upgraded variant of the R88UF premium notebooks, with Full HD Antiglare display. It is also equipped with ultra-fast DDR4 memory. The New GT930MX graphics from Nvidia enable the device offer […]
Scientists at LIGO Say They Detected Gravitational Waves for the Second Time in December Last Year
Scientists at the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational Waves Observatory (LIGO) have announced that they detected gravitational waves for the second time – on December 25th last year. Earlier in February, LIGO scientists had announced first detection of a large space-time ripple at LIGO labs in Livingston, Louisiana and Hanford, Washington. This ripple was detected on […]
British MPs Call for a National Space Program to Help Country Get More Leadership Roles in Future ESA Missions
British MP have demanded the government to develop its own national space program, that would run alongside Britain’s existing participation in the European Space Agency (ESA) and help address the problem of skills shortage that is holding back the growth of the British space industry. A report from the House of Commons Science and Technology […]
Ashok Vemuri Selected as the New CEO of Xerox’s Post-split BPO Business
Xerox Corp has selected Ashok Vemuri as the new chief executive of its BPO unit after the split of the company into two publicly traded entities. Vemuri – who has previously worked at Infosys Ltd in various roles for 14 years – will join Xerox effective July 1. He will serve as CEO of […]
British Astronaut Tim Peake is Preparing for His Return to Earth on June 18
British astronaut Tim Peake is about to complete his six-month space mission on Saturday, and is currently preparing to leave the space station to return to Earth on 18 June. The British astronaut will land in the steppes of Kazakhstan, along with two other astronauts on Saturday morning. From there, Tim will leave for the […]
Carbfix Project Team Gets Success in Converting Waste Carbon Dioxide to Stone
A team of international scientists believe they have discovered an innovative way to covert carbon dioxide (CO2) gas into a stone, thus promising a more secure technique of burying the heat trapping gas underground. For the past two years, these scientists are busy carrying out the $10 million CarbFix experiment in Iceland. The experiment involves […]
Archeologists Discover a Huge Monument in Petra, Jordan
Archeologists have discovered a huge monument buried under the sands at the Petra World Heritage site in southern Jordan. The monument near the ancient city’s center was found after archaeologists used satellite images, ground surveys and drone photography to locate the structure. The detailed results of this study, carried out by Sarah Parcak of the […]
Reddit is Down Again. Server Problem – Pages Timeout, “Our cdn was unable to reach our servers”
09 June 2016: Reddit is down again, and every attempt to access the site ends up with the message: “our cdn was unable to reach our servers”. Update: The site is back online, and users are now able to access it. Reddit is a website which provides people a platform to post, read, and vote […]
Samsung Galaxy Tab A 10.1 Images Leaked Online, The Device Could be Launched in July
The images of Samsung Galaxy Tab A 10.1 have been leaked online, and according to some reports, the tab could launch on July 15. Famous tipster Evan Blass has uploaded the images of the device on Twitter. “Anonymous tip. Tab S3?” he first wrote, but later corrected his stance, revealing that these are […]
This Mathematics Question Has Baffled Parents as Well as Their Kids in the UK
A puzzling mathematics question has so much confused father of a Year five student in the UK that he has turned to the social media to get help to solve the problem. This mental maths question was given as homework to Year 5 primary students at a school in Glossop, Derbyshire. The question asked students […]
Have People Started Getting Bored of Social Networking Apps? Probably Yes, Study Suggests
People have started spending less time on social media apps, and are turning to more private apps such as WhatsApp and Telegram, according to a new study carried out by London-based data research firm SimilarWebs. The study analyzed the recent trends on how Android users across the world are spending their time on social media […]
Arctic Tern Sets the Record for Longest Migration Ever at 60,000 Miles
A tiny Arctic tern has set a new record for longest migration ever by flying from Farne Islands in the UK to Antarctica and back again. In its journey, the tiny bird covered a distance of 59,650 miles (about 96,000 km), which equals flying over twice around the planet. This study was partly funded by […]
Sussex University Scientists Discover How Snails Use Two Neurons to Make Complex Decisions
A team of researchers from Sussex University in England has carried out a new study which reveals that snails use two neurons in the brain to make “complex decisions.” In the first-of-its-kind study, the team, including Michael Crossley, Kevin Staras and György Kemenes, all from the University of Sussex in England, examined the brain activity […]
Indian Smartphone Brand Micromax is Planning to Enter China’s Smartphone Market in 2017
Indian smartphone manufacturer Micromax is planning to enter the Chinese smartphone market next year, revealed Micromax co-founder Vikas Jain, while speaking at the Rise technology conference in Hong Kong. Mr. Jain also hinted that that the company may go public in next two years to boost sales and raise cash for adding a range of […]
Sweden Ranks First in the ‘Goodness’ Index in the World, Study Suggests
A new study has ranked Sweden as the topmost country in the world ‘Goodness’ table, followed by Denmark and the Netherlands. The UK got fourth position in the Goodness index, and Libya came last in the table. Sweden outranked 162 other countries in the table to be announced as the ‘goodest’ country. The positive lifestyle […]
Facebook Unveils DeepText AI System that will Analyze Text in Posts
Facebook has said that it is developing a new artificial intelligence (AI) system called ‘DeepText’ that is able to analyze what people are writing about in posts. According to Facebook, the system can analyze several thousand posts per second and can offer near-human accuracy across 20 languages. It aims to understand the sentiments behind posts, […]
A Woman Gives Birth to a Girl with Zika Virus at a New Jersey Hospital
On Tuesday, May 31, a woman from Honduras gave birth to a baby girl infected with Zika virus – the mosquito-borne disease that can cause small heads and brain damage in newborns. Earlier, the mother was admitted to the emergency room at Hackensack University Medical Center, New Jersey, where she gave birth to the girl. […]
ISRO is All Set to Launch Record 22 Satellites in Single mission in June 2016
ISRO has announced that it is all set to launch a record number of 22 satellites in a single mission next month. The satellites will be launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota. ISRO will use Polar rocket PSLV C34 for the launch. Of these 22 satellites that ISRO will launch, three are Indian […]
Asus Unveils ZenFone 3, ZenFone 3 Deluxe, and ZenFone 3 Ultra in Taipei
Asus has unveiled three models of the ZenFone 3 series – ZenFone 3, ZenFone 3 Deluxe, and ZenFone 3 Ultra – which were displayed at Zenvolution event on Monday at the Humble House in Taipei. All three models differ from each other in size and specifications. All variants sport a metal design, 8-megapixel selfie camera, […]
Archeologists Discover 5000-year-Old Recipe for Beer in China
Researchers from Stanford University claim to have discovered 5000-year-old recipe for beer in China. The researchers now believe this find may be the first indication that beer was an important product in China many years before experts previously thought. Different studies have revealed that ancient humans were fond of beer. Evidence of 11,000-year-old brewing […]
NASA Announces to Make Second Attempt to Inflate Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, BEAM
NASA has said that its astronauts on board the International Space Station will make second attempt to expand the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module or BEAM on Saturday. The experimental module had failed to inflate during the first attempt carried out by NASA astronauts on Thursday. Jeff Williams tried to expand BEAM with spurts of the […]
Long Space Shuttle Fuel Tank ET-94 Arrives in Los Angeles
ET-94 – the huge, empty, NASA fuel tank – finally reached the California Science Center in Exposition Park on Saturday. The shifting of the tank started around 12:30 a.m. PT early Saturday at Fisherman’s Village in Marina del Rey. Spectators had lined the streets to watch the huge tank making its way from […]
India Successfully Launches First-ever Indigenous Space Shuttle RLV-TD
On May 23, India launched its first-ever indigenous space shuttle – the Re-Usable Launch Vehicle – Technology Demonstrator (RLV-TD) from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. RLV-TD, the country’s first winged-body aerospace vehicle, is being said to be the ISRO’s first step towards developing a reusable launch vehicle that would be capable of sending spacecraft […]
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