Hate speech-detecting AIs are fools for ‘love’: Study
Sep 16, 2018, at 06:52 pm
New York, Sept 16 (IBNS): Hateful text and comments are an ever-increasing problem in online environments, yet addressing the rampant issue relies on being able to identify toxic content.
Artificial Intelligence: a danger to mankind, or the key to a better world?
Sep 13, 2018, at 08:18 am
New York, Sept 13 (IBNS): Siri, Alexa and Cortana are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Artificial Intelligence (or A.I.), which is playing an increasingly pervasive role in our lives.
Otago-led research set to make smartphones even smarter
Sep 01, 2018, at 04:04 pm
Toronto, Sept 1 (IBNS): The accuracy of the global positioning system (GPS) in smartphones has been significantly improved thanks to research conducted at the University of Otago, New Zealand, in collaboration with Curtin University, Australia.
NASA’s long-serving climate chief Michael Freilich to retire next year
Sep 01, 2018, at 12:03 pm
Washington, D.C., Sept 1 (IBNS): Michael Freilich, who is leading NASA’s work in earth science and climate change for 12 years, announced recently of his retirement early next year from the agency, media reports said.
Aug 28, 2018, at 07:10 pm
A New Delhi, Aug 28 (IBNS): As announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his Independence Day address, India’s first Indian human mission will be launched by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) by 2022.
NASA unveils 'before and after' images of flood-hit Kerala
Aug 28, 2018, at 06:08 pm
Washington, Aug 28 (IBNS): NASA has unveiled images where it has shown the destruction caused by floods in the Indian city of Kerala.
Meet the virtual pooch that could help prevent dog bites: Study
Aug 25, 2018, at 03:52 pm
London, Aug 25 (IBNS): A virtual dog could soon be used as an educational tool to help prevent dog bites, thanks to an innovative project led by the University’s Virtual Engineering Centre (VEC).
Study finds a timescale for the origin and evolution of all of life on Earth
Aug 25, 2018, at 03:25 pm
New York, Aug 25 (IBNS): Palaeontologists have long sought to understand ancient life and the shared evolutionary history of life as a whole.
Ontario Science Centre showcases QUANTUM: The Exhibition
Aug 24, 2018, at 03:10 pm
Toronto, Aug 23 (IBNS): QUANTUM: The Exhibition opened its doors at the Ontario Science Centre on Aug 18 with this Canadian-made showw exploring the research of the scientists who study at the quantum level to better understand the natural world.
Canada: NASA chiefs discover water on the moon
Aug 23, 2018, at 09:05 pm
Ottawa, Aug 23 (IBNS): National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) recently confirmed an abundance of water on the Moon situated in hundreds of patches of ice deposited in the north and south poles, media reports said.
NASA gets up close with Greenland's melting ice
Aug 22, 2018, at 07:36 pm
Washington, Aug 22 (IBNS): With a new research plane and a new base to improve its chances of outsmarting Atlantic hurricanes, NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland campaign takes to the sky this week for its third year of gathering data on how the ocean around Greenland is melting its glaciers.
NASA confirms ice at the Moon’s poles
Aug 21, 2018, at 09:15 am
Washington, Aug 21 (IBNS): In the darkest and coldest parts of its polar regions, a team of scientists has directly observed definitive evidence of water ice on the Moon’s surface.
NASA, ULA launch Parker Solar probe on historic journey to touch Sun
Aug 12, 2018, at 04:42 pm
Washington, Aug 12 (IBNS): Hours before the rise of the very star it will study, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe launched from Florida Sunday to begin its journey to the Sun, where it will undertake a landmark mission.
Study helps solve mystery under Jupiter’s coloured bands
Aug 11, 2018, at 06:30 pm
Sydney, Aug 11 (IBNS): Scientists from Australia and the United States have helped to solve the mystery underlying Jupiter's coloured bands in a new study on the interaction between atmospheres and magnetic fields.
Laziness helped lead to extinction of Homo erectus:Study
Aug 11, 2018, at 05:29 pm
Sydney, Aug 11 (IBNS): New archaeological research from The Australian National University (ANU) has found that Homo erectus, an extinct species of primitive humans, went extinct in part because they were 'lazy'.
Water is destroyed, then reborn in ultrahot Jupiters
Aug 10, 2018, at 07:25 pm
Washington, Aug 10 (IBNS): Imagine a place where the weather forecast is always the same: scorching temperatures, relentlessly sunny, and with absolutely zero chance of rain. This hellish scenario exists on the permanent daysides of a type of planet found outside our solar system dubbed an "ultrahot Jupiter." These worlds orbit extremely close to their stars, with one side of the planet permanently facing the star.
NASA to name astronauts assigned to first Boeing, SpaceX flights
Aug 03, 2018, at 08:33 am
Washington, Aug 3 (IBNS): NASA will announce on Friday the astronauts assigned to crew the first flight tests and missions of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX Crew Dragon, and begin a new era in American spaceflight.
India conducts successful test of Ballistic Missile Interceptor AAD
Aug 02, 2018, at 08:31 pm
New Delhi, Aug 2 (IBNS): India on Thursday conducted the successful test of the Ballistic Missile Interceptor Advanced Area Defence (AAD) at 11:30 am from Abdul Kalam Island in Odisha.
Hyperloop gains traction worldwide
Jul 27, 2018, at 05:53 pm
Transportation pioneers in the United States and India have converged on a sustainable, futuristic solution -- the hyperloop, a high-speed pod in a vacuum tube travelling at airplane speed. Yanqi Xu and Brooke Vaughan from USA and Souryaprokas Bhaduri and Maiyankini Bose from India report
Saturn and Mars team up to make their closest approaches to Earth in 2018
Jul 27, 2018, at 09:26 am
Washington, July 27 (IBNS): NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has photographed Saturn and Mars near their closest approaches to Earth in June and July 2018.
Italian researchers find first lake of water on Mars
Jul 25, 2018, at 11:01 pm
Tampa, USA, July 25 (IBNS): In an unprecedented discovery, a massive underground lake has been detected on Mars for the first time.
Is Mars’ soil too dry to sustain life?
Jul 25, 2018, at 09:19 am
Washington, July 25 (IBNS): Life as we know it needs water to thrive. Even so, we see life persist in the driest environments on Earth. But how dry is too dry?
'Data science may help Hollywood make movies people really want to see'
Jul 24, 2018, at 11:01 pm
Birmingham, July 24 (IBNS): Data science could help Hollywood producers generate ‘personalised’ movies after researchers established that a film’s emotional content could help to predict box-office success.
Possibility of moon life seen by researcher
Jul 24, 2018, at 02:55 pm
Washington, July 24 (IBNS): While the moon is uninhabitable today, there could have been life on its surface in the distant past.
Warming rivers make marked contribution to global greenhouse gas levels: Study
Jul 19, 2018, at 10:42 pm
Birmingham, July 19 (IBNS): Warming streams and rivers could be disproportionately contributing to the amount of planet-warming greenhouse gases, according to a new study.
Jul 19, 2018, at 09:58 pm
Birmingham, July 19 (IBNS): Scientists at the University of Birmingham are one step closer to developing an eye drop that could revolutionise treatment for age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
Study finds climate determines shapes of river basins
Jul 19, 2018, at 08:47 am
New York, July 19 (IBNS): There are more than 1 million river basins carved into the topography of the United States, each collecting rainwater to feed the rivers that cut through them.
Chandra may have first evidence of a young star devouring a planet
Jul 19, 2018, at 08:24 am
Washington, July 19 (IBNS): Scientists may have observed, for the first time, the destruction of a young planet or planets around a nearby star.
NASA releases image of 'Mars' crawling on Mars surface
Jul 16, 2018, at 08:32 pm
Washington, July 16 (IBNS): An image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, acquired May 13, 2018 during winter at the South Pole of Mars, shows a carbon dioxide ice cap covering the region and as the sun returns in the spring, "spiders" begin to emerge from the landscape.
Lunar eclipse on July 27-28, can be seen from all parts of India
Jul 13, 2018, at 03:50 pm
New Delhi, July 13 (IBNS): A total lunar eclipse will occur on July 27-28, 2018 with a totality duration of 1 hour 43 minutes.