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Smartphones can be tracked via power usage

Last Updated: Monday, February 23, 2015, 16:10

Malicious software can track your smartphone simply by measuring the way it uses power even without access to location data, scientists warn.

Facebook knows you better than your friends

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 13, 2015, 14:33

Researchers from Cambridge University and Stanford University have devised a software that can reveal your personality better than your friends by analysing posts that you "like" on the social networking site Facebook.

World`s fastest organic transistor developed

Last Updated: Thursday, January 9, 2014, 13:24

Two university research teams collaborated to develop thin, transparent semiconductors, which could become the foundation for cheap, high-performance displays.

Why mere presence of males shortens females` lifespans in some species

Last Updated: Friday, November 29, 2013, 13:12

Researchers have discovered that males of the laboratory roundworm secrete signalling molecules that significantly shorten the lifespan of the opposite sex.

Watch Videos: Sun`s magnetic field about to flip upside down

Last Updated: Sunday, November 17, 2013, 00:45

Our sun`s vast magnetic field is about to flip upside down which will affect the entire solar system, says NASA.

Sun`s magnetic field close to flipping

Last Updated: Wednesday, November 13, 2013, 12:18

Scientists have said that the Sun`s magnetic field will flip soon.

Indian-origin Stanford professor succumbs to leukaemia

Last Updated: Wednesday, October 30, 2013, 13:07

Fervently awaiting a bone-marrow donor, Nalini Ambady, an Indian origin professor at Stanford University succumbed to leukaemia early Tuesday in Boston, the US, a family friend said here Wednesday.

Social media helps advance tourism studies!

Last Updated: Tuesday, October 22, 2013, 21:59

Scientists have used social media - vacation photos from Flickr - to study how people use natural areas for tourism and recreation.

World`s first `carbon-nanotube computer` unveiled

Last Updated: Thursday, September 26, 2013, 11:35

A team of researchers lead by Indian origin scientist has unveiled the first computer built entirely with carbon nanotubes.

Electricity generated from sewage using `wired microbes`

Last Updated: Sunday, September 22, 2013, 16:22

Stanford University engineers have devised a new way to generate electricity from sewage using naturally-occurring "wired microbes" as mini power plants, producing electricity as they digest plant and animal waste.

Learning Management

Last Updated: Tuesday, August 27, 2013, 19:07

Garth Saloner, dean, Stanford Graduate School of Business, discusses importance of management education for experienced professionals and more with <b>Karishma Venkiteswaran.</b>

Most common male and female ancestors lived around same time

Last Updated: Friday, August 2, 2013, 15:17

First full-chromosome sequencing effort has found that most recent male and female common ancestors lived around the same time.