A team of neuroscientists has found specific brain markers that predict generosity in children.
Researcher Jean Decety at the University of Chicago said that they know that generosity in children increases as they get older, adding that neuroscientists have not yet examined the mechanisms that guide the increase in generosity.
Global internet authority ICANN that allocates IP addresses and domain names for the internet has reportedly been hacked.
According to The Verge, the US-administered non-profit has said that its internal systems were breached following a spear phishing attack in late November.
The unsuspecting employees gave up their credentials after they received emails from the organization’s own domain after it was hacked.
A new study has revealed that some anti-inflammatory drugs have the potential to prevent the second most common type of skin cancer.
Scientists at QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute said that these drugs could be particularly beneficial to people at high risk of developing these cancers.
A new study has found that fast-changing genes help malaria parasites hide in the human body.
The study from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute revealed that parasites can rapidly change the proteins on the surface of their host cells during the course of a single infection in order to hide from the immune system.
NASA and an international team of planetary scientists have found evidence in meteorites on Earth that indicates Mars has a distinct and global reservoir of water or ice near its surface.
Though controversy still surrounds the origin, abundance and history of water on Mars, this discovery helps resolve the question of where the “missing Martian water” may have gone.
The reservoir’s existence also may be key to understanding climate history and potential for life on Mars, researchers said.
Earth meteorite indicates water reservoir on Mars
A study has revealed that six percent of people are suffering from internet addiction worldwide, hampering their health and interpersonal relationships.
Researchers from University of Hong Kong presented 164 internet addiction prevalence figures, with an overall global prevalence estimate of six percent.
Data was taken from more than 89,000 individuals in 31 countries.
Prevalence ranged from a low of 2.6 percent in Northern and Western Europe to a high of 10.9 percent in the Middle East.
Researchers from University of Southampton have helped solve a long-standing space mystery – the origin of the “theta aurora”.
Auroras are the most visible manifestation of the Sun’s effect on Earth.
They are seen as colourful displays in the night sky known as the Northern or Southern Lights.
However, auroras can occur at even higher latitudes. One type is known as a “theta aurora” because seen from above it looks like the Greek letter theta – an oval with a line crossing through the centre.
The European Union (EU) Thursday imposed “substantial” additional sanctions on investment, services and trade on Crimea and Sevastopol, saying investment in Crimea or Sevastopol is outlawed from Dec 20.
“This is to reinforce the EU’s policy of not recognising their illegal annexation by Russia and follows a conclusion by the Foreign Affairs Council of Nov 17,” Xinhua quoted an official EU statement as saying.
The fresh sanctions mean that Europeans and EU-based companies may no more buy real estate or entities in Crimea, finance Crimean companies or supply related services.
Investments in broadband need to be encouraged and facilitated in India so that the benefits of broadband to business and society can be ensured, industry experts said here Thursday.
“Mobile broadband will be the platform on which the ‘Digital India’ vision can be delivered. Wide deployment, availability and affordability of broadband will enable the country to bridge the digital divide and facilitate economic growth,” Chris Houghton, head of region, India, Ericsson said.
Many mammals came perilously close to extinction when a massive asteroid hit the earth 66 million years ago, says a study, adding that if a few lucky species did not make it through then mammals may have gone the way of the dinosaurs.
The extinction of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago is thought to have paved the way for mammals to dominate but many mammals died off alongside the dinosaurs. Metatherian mammals – the extinct relatives of living marsupials (“mammals with pouches”) thrived in the shadow of the dinosaurs during the Cretaceous period.
Sony has reportedly revealed its latest experiment that will attach a head-up display on people’s glasses.
The company is developing an OLED microdisplay that will provide relevant information in a “high-resolution” 640 x 400 color format, reported The Verge.
The eyewear will have two additional modules, which are designed to rest on top of the wearer’s temples, connect up to the microdisplay and provide it with an ARM processor, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity, an accelerometer, a touch sensor, and a 400mAh battery.
Social networks Twitter and Foursquare have reached a deal under which tweets would now include information about the location of users.
According to CNET, the partnership is set to start next year, and the new ” geo-based” features could roll out as soon as the first quarter, said the publication.
Foursquare, which was started in 2009, allows users to “check in” to locations and scan the city for new and interesting places with the help of its mobile app .
Social networking site Facebook is reportedly experimenting with a feature where Group members can post details about the items they intend to sell instead of the usual status updates.
According to The Verge, there are designated fields for an item title, location, description, photo, and asking price.
After the details are entered, Facebook then posts the sale in an interesting and easily readable format to help users locate it in the classifieds.
The social networking site’s role is limited to making one’s sale presentable.
Google is likely to release its first update to Android 5.0 Lollipop by next year, a report has revealed.
According to CNET, Android 5.1 is due in the early months of 2015.
Moreover, it also plans on making improvements for notifications, connections and overall stability apart from issuing bug fixes and introducing minor tweaks.
The report said that the most noticeable detail in the alleged change log is the return of silent mode that is missing in Android 5.0. (ANI)
Samsung has predicted that wearable technology ‘will create a new era of power dressing’ in 2015.
According to the technology giant, the business leaders of our decade will rely on connected wearables “to stay ‘always-on,'” and the first wave of that change will be smartwaches, of which Samsung already has five different varieties.
BlackBerry has reportedly announced the BlackBerry Classic, the smartphone that CEO John Chen has been teasing for the better part of a year.
The phone has a “throwback look,” true to its name, with a QWERTY keyboard, physical navigation keys, and a nearly indistinguishable design from BlackBerry smartphones from years ago, such as the Bold, reported The Verge.
Featuring a 3.5-inch touchscreen, the Classic is significantly smaller than the Passport which was launched earlier this year. It has an eight megapixel camera on the back and a two megapixel unit on the front.
Microsoft’s search engine Bing has predicted which people, products and trends will win in 2015.
The search engine has predicted 2015 Grammy winners, which movies will win the Golden Globes, food and fashion trends, and which team will win the Super Bowl, PC World reported.
Microsoft compiled its predictions across eight categories that includes awards, designers, fashion, food, football, technology, travel, and wearables and in each, Bing picked the top ten winners, some of which varied by geographical region.
A new 3D-printed wristband has been recently created that will record TV show if you fall asleep, it has been revealed.
Two British boys, 15-year-old Ryan Oliver and 14-year-old Jonathan Kingsley have produced a 3D-printed wristband that senses when its wearer has fallen asleep, the Daily Express reported.
The device, which works alongside the Virgin Media’s TiVo service, mimics how the box’s TV remote pauses and records live TV.
Astronomers have recently detected a “perfect storm” turbulence that was crushing star formation around a supermassive Black Hole by using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA).
A team of scientists has revealed that Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome (HGPS) related defects can be reduced with the help of a substance found in broccoli.
Children who suffer from the disease age prematurely due to a defective protein in their cells, but scientists at Technische Universitat Munchen (TUM) have now identified another important pathological factor, like, the system responsible for removing cellular debris and for breaking down defective proteins operates at lower levels in HGPS cells than in normal cells.
Senior scientist and SPACE India director C B Devgun on Thursday expressed happiness over the successful launch of Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) Mark-III, adding that this was the first test done without the cryogenic engine and that the new module CREW that has been crafted to ensure the safe arrival of astronauts back to earth, had been tested successfully.
A new study has shed light on an asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs may have wiped out mammals as well.
The new study, by an international team of experts on mammal evolution and mass extinctions, showed that these once-abundant mammals nearly followed the dinosaurs into oblivion.
A team of neuroscientists has found that the longer people take to decide, the less accurate and confident they are.
Author Roozbeh Kiani from New York University said that in people’s daily lives, they make many decisions and sometimes the evidence afforded them is strong, enabling them to decide quickly and accurately, but other times, the evidence is lacking so they take longer to decide and tend to be less accurate.
A new study has recently revealed that exoplanets, whose axis is tilted, may still be habitable if they are covered in oceans.
Scientists at MIT have found that even a high-obliquity planet, with a nearly horizontal axis, could potentially support life, so long as the planets were completely covered by an ocean. In fact, even a shallow ocean, about 50 meters deep, would be enough to keep such a planet at relatively comfortable temperatures, averaging around 60 degrees Fahrenheit year-round.
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has recently captured a mid-level solar flare on Dec. 16, 2014, it has been reported.
This flare was classified as an M8.7-class flare. M-class flares are a tenth the size of the most intense flares, the X-class flares. The number provides more information about its strength. An M2 would be twice as intense as an M1; an M3 was three times as intense, etc.