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Dolphins squeal with joy while experiencing pleasure: Study

Last Updated: Thursday, August 14, 2014, 12:35

A new study suggests that dolphins squeal like kids when they are happy.

Delhi boy wins gold at Informatics Olympiad, heads for MIT

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 13, 2014, 21:50

Delhi schoolboy Akshat Bubna has become the first Indian student to win a gold medal in the International Olympiad in Informatics in Taiwan.

Chilean students invent theft-proof bicycle

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 13, 2014, 21:20

More than 100,000 bicycles are stolen annually in Chile`s capital Santiago, a problem that prompted three university students here to come up with an innovative, theft-proof model.

Soon, sweat to power small electronic devices

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 13, 2014, 19:59

Researchers at the University of California San Diego have designed a sensor in the form of a temporary tattoo that can monitor a person`s progress during exercises. It can also generate electricity from their perspiration.

Yawning contagious among bonobos too

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 13, 2014, 17:28

Just as humans sometimes find it impossible to resist yawning as a response to another person`s yawn, bonobos, our closest evolutionary cousins, too feel the same urge, says a study.

Cell phones can be charged using sound

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 13, 2014, 17:07

Soon you can use traffic noise, music, chants from a football ground and even your own voice to charge your cell phone!

Mystery of last universal common ancestor solved

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 13, 2014, 16:56

Scientists have solved a four billion-year-old mystery surrounding the one common ancestor of all life on Earth.

How we recall where we`ve parked our cars

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 13, 2014, 14:32

A new study has revealed that a previously understudied part of the brain is essential for forming the basis for contextual memories , which help you to recall events ranging from global disasters to where you parked your car.

Genetically modified fruit flies could save crops

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 13, 2014, 14:24

Releasing genetically engineered fruit flies into the wild could prove to be a cheap, effective and environmentally friendly way of pest control, a new study has found.

India`s first fish hospital to come up in Bengal

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 13, 2014, 12:54

India`s first hospital to treat diseased fish and offer solutions to farmers will come up in West Bengal by mid-2015, an official said Wednesday.