Wearable technology has been around just as long as the portable listening device, but originally in the form of a wristband that only told you how many steps you had taken that day; but not very accurately. With the invention of the smartphone, we now have Bluetooth enabled bands that can monitor o...
- Tuesday, 06 June 2017 02:33
- By Anna K. Sasaki
According to Mary Meeker’s evaluation of internet trends report, the Indian market is showing a major hike in internet usage, thanks to low-cost data. If there is one research report entrepreneurs, investors, digital marketers, and corporate aficionados await with great anticipation, it is Mary Me...
- Monday, 05 June 2017 02:47
- By Anthony Frank
Over a million devices have already been affected by an Android malware named Gooligan, which compromises Google account data on these devices, giving the attacker access to user’s Gmail, Google Photos, Google Docs, Google Play, Google Drive and other Google-related applications. According to ...
- Monday, 29 May 2017 04:48
- By Linda Manly
Brains been the subject of speculation, prodding, poking, and just plain head-scratching approximately ever since they started to function. The Ancient Egyptians saw no spiritual significance for the brain, so it never got its own special jar for burial. However, as time marched on, and medical adva...
- Monday, 29 May 2017 02:14
- By Eric Beaudoin
A slice through largest-ever three-dimensional map of the Universe. Earth can be seen on the left, and distances to galaxies and quasars are labelled by the lookback time to the objects (how long light from an object has been traveling to reach Earth). Locations of quasars are shown by the red dots,...
- Thursday, 25 May 2017 15:41
- By Anthony Frank
Google Android will power new cars from Volvo and Audi The operating system will enable more functions than Android Auto, such as more integrated voice control and Google Assistant. Google will discuss the launch more during Google I/O this week. Google announced on Monday that new ...
- Thursday, 25 May 2017 04:01
- By Logan Hochstetler
A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft hangs outside the International Space Station's Cupola module (Photo: NASA) SpaceX is revolutionising the space industry with its reusable rockets and ambitious plans to colonise Mars. But it's also going to help internet connectivity here on Earth by launch...
- Thursday, 25 May 2017 03:08
- By Grace Irwin
Move over Tatooine — having two suns is old news. New research shows that the closest exoplanet to Earth — Proxima b — may have just one-upped the fictional Star Wars desert world by possessing not two, but three stars as a part of its orbit....
- Thursday, 25 May 2017 01:53
- By Steven Ryan
Scientists may have found a new supernova explosion or supermassive black hole in a galaxy about 600 million light years from Earth after pointing a telescope there for the first time in a couple of decades and spotting something super bright near its center. The National Radio Astronomy O...
- Thursday, 25 May 2017 00:05
- By Alex Grey
You’re forgiven if the name KIC 8462852 doesn’t ring a bell. It’s a far-off object, thought to be a star, which was only just discovered in late 2015, but it’s already managed to totally confuse researchers in its extremely brief stint on the scientific stage. The star has continually exhibi...
- Wednesday, 24 May 2017 08:39
- By Steven Ryan
A Hubble Space Telescope image of the distant universe. Credit: NASA. Looking up into the night sky, it's challenging enough for an amateur astronomer to count the number of naked-eye stars that are visible. With bigger telescopes, more stars become visible, making counting impossible be...
- Wednesday, 24 May 2017 08:15
- By Barbara Larson
An infrared image of 47 Tucanae, a dense globular cluster of stars located roughly 16,000 light years from Earth. A new study has predicted that a black hole lies at its center. (2MASS / T. Jarrett) A new method could help scientists peer inside universe’s densest star clusters to find undisc...
- Wednesday, 24 May 2017 08:09
- By Daniel K. Henry
Researchers believe split between chimps and humans occurred in eastern Europe, not Africa A jawbone discovered by German troops in Athens during the Second World War could be evidence that apes and humans diverged 200,000 years earlier than the current theory says. Chimpanzees and bonobos are ...
- Wednesday, 24 May 2017 05:06
- By Martin Grossner
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. They’re mysterious bursts of radio waves from space that are over in a fraction of a second. Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are thought to occur many thousands of times a day, but since their first detec...
- Wednesday, 24 May 2017 04:47
- By Carol R. Venuti
The orbits of all seven Earth-size planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system are now known. Astronomers have nailed down the path of TRAPPIST-1h, the outermost planet in the system, finding that this world takes just under 19 Earth days to complete one lap around its small, faint host star. T...
- Wednesday, 24 May 2017 04:04
- By Carol R. Venuti
BREAKING BARRIERS With the advent of the internet, there are fewer barriers to communication than ever before. Distance has basically become negligible in terms of talking to each other. Ongoing developments have continued to make it even easier. Now, in many cases, language is no longer a barr...
- Wednesday, 24 May 2017 03:04
- By Ashley
An artist's impression of the exoplanet Proxima b, located just 4.2 lightyears from Earth. ESO/M. Kornmesser A second Earth may orbit our nearest neighboring star, and according to new simulations, it may be comfortable for life as we know it. Maybe. Proxima b is thought to be&n...
- Wednesday, 24 May 2017 00:57
- By Alex Grey
What does fast food have to do with interstellar travel? At first blush, not much. But halfway through the film, “The Founder,” on a grueling, recent ten hour flight, it hit me that aerospace, even NASA, might learn something from McDonald’s corporation founding CEO Ray Kroc. Three years befor...
- Tuesday, 23 May 2017 06:07
- By Issac Avila
Aimed at outdoor enthusiasts, Bing's latest updates will also surface detailed info for local campsites and campgrounds in US national parks. Bing has rolled out a new search feature aimed at hikers and campers that makes it easier to find trails and camping sites this summer. According to...
- Tuesday, 23 May 2017 05:51
- By James Gill
A distant star has begun exhibiting the same strange behavior that led astronomers to suggest an “alien megastructure” is orbiting it. Tabby’s Star first attracted the world’s attention last year when stargazers suggested the distinctive “blinking” of its light was caused by a gigantic s...
- Tuesday, 23 May 2017 04:14
- By Daniel K. Henry
Brian Greene, Columbia University physicist and co-founder of the World Science Festival, explains how today's physicists and mathematicians use an Einsteinian formula to explain the universe that Einstein himself originally thought was false. ...
- Tuesday, 23 May 2017 03:12
- By Alex Grey
Think about it: What are you doing to keep your brain healthy and fit? It might seem like our brains can take care of themselves, but let’s not forget to help a brain out! If you’re feeling foggy, stressed, forgetful, moody, sleepy, or just not as sharp as you used to be, your brain might be tr...
- Tuesday, 23 May 2017 01:25
- By Anna K. Sasaki
A team of researchers from the University of British Columbia, Canada, has proposed a radical new theory about the expansion of the universe. Scientists do not know exactly why the universe is expanding at an ever-accelerating pace, but the most popular theory is that this growth is being driven by ...
- Monday, 22 May 2017 14:13
- By Barbara Larson
Hello. It’s my first day back covering technology for The Atlantic. It also marks roughly 10 years that I’ve been covering science and technology, so I’ve been thinking back to my early days at Wired in the pre-crash days of 2007. The internet was then, as it is now, something we gave a kin...
- Monday, 22 May 2017 08:59
- By James Gill
Space is big and dark, and since there is no air, no one can hear you scream as you float away forever and ever and ever. But those are only the human-sized terrors that space has to offer our nightmares. Because, as you will see, if you step back a few thousand light years from your simple humanoid...
- Monday, 22 May 2017 08:10
- By Anna K. Sasaki
