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Google claims to have made major progress in self-driving cars

Last Updated: Tuesday, April 29, 2014, 19:08

Google has claimed that they have made major progress in teaching and programming their self-driving cars and getting them ready to handle real world risks.

Now, water-testing lab packed into a pill

Last Updated: Tuesday, April 29, 2014, 13:40

Want to know if your water supply is contaminated? Drop this pill in a vial of water and if the colour changes, there`s your answer!

Computer tool spots aggressive human behaviour in CCTV images

Last Updated: Tuesday, April 29, 2014, 13:37

Researchers have developed a new computer programme that can analyse closed circuit television (CCTV) images and spot aggressive human behaviour with 90 per cent accuracy. The research is an important step forward in intelligent security systems that could raise an alarm without requiring constant human vigilance, researchers said.

Now, print `real teddy bears` in just few hours

Last Updated: Tuesday, April 29, 2014, 13:27

A new 3D printer has been designed to create real, cuddly teddy bears in a few hours.

Scent of male experimenters stress out mice and rats in labs

Last Updated: Tuesday, April 29, 2014, 13:25

In an attempt to find out why some scientists are unable to replicate research findings on rodents, a new study has concluded that it`s all got to do with the gender of the experimenters.

Learn how to deal with a `smart` home

Last Updated: Tuesday, April 29, 2014, 13:20

Just shifted to a smart home full of automated gadgets - from light switches to appliances to heating systems - but do not know how to activate and programme them to listen to your command? Read on.

Now, make the perfect cup of tea in a vacuum

Last Updated: Tuesday, April 29, 2014, 11:47

A high-tech tea brewing solution can now create the perfect cup of tea of your dreams.

Flexible batteries pave way for bendable and wearable electronics

Last Updated: Tuesday, April 29, 2014, 10:04

Researchers have developed a flexible material with nanoporous nickel-fluoride electrodes layered around a solid electrolyte to deliver battery-like supercapacitor performance that combines the best qualities of a high-energy battery and a high-powered supercapacitor without lithium.

`Love hormone` promotes social behavior among infant rhesus monkeys

Last Updated: Tuesday, April 29, 2014, 10:33

Researchers have suggested that the hormone oxytocin appears to increase social behaviors in newborn rhesus monkeys.

Mayan people would have loved online world: Study

Last Updated: Monday, April 28, 2014, 20:40

As we have moved over the Maya calendar that interpreted the world`s end in 2012, it is time again to look back how people belonging to the Maya period may have had reacted to the virtual online world we are living in today.