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New fingerprint method to catch thieves faster

Last Updated: Thursday, May 1, 2014, 18:58

Tracing snatchers and thieves can soon become much easier as researchers have now developed a more reliable fingerprinting method using sweat pores.

Secret to moving huge pyramid stones found?

Last Updated: Thursday, May 1, 2014, 18:03

Scientists have uncovered one of the key methods Egyptians employed to move huge stones to build the pyramids - using wet sand!

Soon, robotic handshake for long-distance greetings

Last Updated: Thursday, May 1, 2014, 17:46

Japanese researchers are developing a warm and life-like robotic hand that allows you to shake or hold hands with the person at the other end of a video conference call.

DNA `Sat Nav` tells where your ancestors lived 1000 years ago

Last Updated: Thursday, May 1, 2014, 17:40

A new ground-breaking technique developed by scientists traces where your DNA was formed a millennium ago.

Scientists discover why threading a needle is so difficult

Last Updated: Thursday, May 1, 2014, 17:18

Scientists have found that threading a needle can be such a challenge because visual stimuli are processed differently when they occur near our hands.

Snails bigger danger to humans than combo of lions, sharks and wolves

Last Updated: Thursday, May 1, 2014, 13:28

Freshwater snails cause the death of about 10,000 people every year, in comparison, the three traditional predators kill just 120 across the globe annually.

Everest climbers at 5 times higher radiation risk than nuclear plant workers

Last Updated: Thursday, May 1, 2014, 13:22

Researchers have suggested that climbers tackling Mt. Everest receive a radiation dose that is five times more than the average annual exposure of a UK nuclear power worker.

`Dimwitted` Neanderthals were not inferior to modern humans

Last Updated: Thursday, May 1, 2014, 10:12

Researchers have suggested that the widely held opinion that Neanderthals were dimwitted may not hold true.

The tiny mite is world`s fastest land animal!

Last Updated: Wednesday, April 30, 2014, 21:14

All of you must be knowing that cheetah is the fastest land animal. But now the Cheetah has been beaten to the title of fastest animal in the world by the tiny Californian mite.

A computer mouse that can also scan

Last Updated: Wednesday, April 30, 2014, 20:56

It`s a computer mouse that can also do the job of a scanner.