Researchers in the US have created a digital map to track the changing racial diversity of every neighbourhood in the country. The map shows which neighbourhoods have become less homogenous over the last two decades and which have not. Tomasz Stepinski from University of Cincinnati applied NASA mapmaking techniques to 20 years of...

​New York, April 21 (IANS) New genetic evidence confirms a long-held hypothesis that our earliest mammalian ancestors indeed had powerful night-time vision.The findings published in the journal Scientific Reports suggests that adapting to life in the dark helped the early mammals find food and avoid reptilian pred...

​New York, April 21 (IANS) Traditional clinical hearing tests often fail to detect patients with a common form of inner ear damage that might otherwise be detected by more challenging behavioural tests, new research has found.Such tests may not be able to diagnose those facing problems in certain situations, like ...

​Geneva, April 20 (IANS) Remarkable achievements have been made in tackling neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) since 2007 with one billion people receiving treatment in 2015 alone, World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday in a report."WHO has observed record-breaking progress towards bringing ancient scou...

​London, April 20 (IANS) An international team of astronomers has discovered a so-called "super-Earth" that could contain liquid water, a situation that would make it a very good candidate for harbouring life.Super-Earth is a rocky, temperate planet orbiting a red dwarf star, Efe news agency reported.I...

​Thiruvananthapuram, April 19 (IANS) A component of the skin mucus secreted by a frog species found in India can be harnessed to kill influenza viruses, new research has found.In their experiment, the researchers found that when delivered intranasally, one of the antiviral peptides found in skin secretions from th...

​New York, April 19 (IANS) Space missions are likely to encounter a growing threat of more debris, scientists warned on Tuesday at the 7th European Conference on Space Debris.The four-day meeting was held in the southern German city of Darmstadt, where t...

​Washington, April 19 (IANS) NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has captured a region of Mars sprayed with mysterious secondary craters."Secondary craters form from rocks ejected at high speed from the primary crater, which then impact the ground at sufficiently high speed to make huge numbers of much smalle...

​Hyderabad, April 13 (IANS) The Nuclear Fuel Complex (NFC), part of the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), on Thursday said it has set a new world record with production of 1512 Ametric tonnes (MT) of nuclear fuel in 2016-17, surpassing its own recordNFC in Hyderabad, which produces fuel assemblies required for al...

​Washington, April 18 (IANS) US researchers have developed a wristband-type wearable sweat sensor that could help diagnose cystic fibrosis, diabetes and other diseases.The sensor collects sweat, measures its molecular constituents and then electronically transmits the results for analysis and diagnostics through a...