Adobe`s massive password leak becomes playable crossword puzzle

Last Updated: Monday, November 18, 2013, 23:17

Some 150 million customer records were leaked online after Adobe was hacked, but in a clever move, some of that information has been turned into a playable crossword.

Shakuntala Devi honoured by calculator-styled Google doodle

Last Updated: Monday, November 4, 2013, 09:36

Today Google celebrates the 84th birth anniversary of mathematical genius Shakuntala Devi with its customary doodle. Shakuntala Devi, popularly known as the "Human Computer", was a child prodigy and mental calculator who had the remarkable ability to mentally solve complex mathematical problems. Google paid its tribute to her with a calculator font and her smiling picture.

Solar flares help solve matter-antimatter puzzle

Last Updated: Tuesday, July 9, 2013, 12:03

Antimatter has been detected in solar flares via microwave and magnetic-field data, according to a new research.

Prehistoric rock art hides a cosmological puzzle

Last Updated: Thursday, June 20, 2013, 18:36

Pieces of rock art that dot the Appalachian Mountains in the US were strategically placed to reveal a cosmological puzzle suggesting a conceptual universe, a new study claims.

Chimpanzees too solve puzzles for feel-good reward

Last Updated: Tuesday, February 26, 2013, 14:02

Just like humans love getting stuck into a crossword, chimpanzees get the same feeling of satisfaction from completing tricky puzzles, a new study has found.

Charles’ online shop sells Wills-Kate jigsaw puzzle

Last Updated: Monday, March 21, 2011, 20:25

Prince Charles’ official online shop is selling a jigsaw featuring Wills-Kate.

Mars puzzle may reveal whether life existed on planet

Last Updated: Saturday, September 4, 2010, 17:09

NASA’s Viking Mars landers in 1976 may have contained carbon-based chemical building blocks of life.

Scientists solve puzzle around Saturn

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 4, 2010, 17:32

Scientists have discovered that Saturn`s aurora pulses roughly once per Saturnian day.

BP, scientists try to make sense of well puzzle

Last Updated: Saturday, July 17, 2010, 09:56

In a nail-biting day across the Gulf Coast, engineers struggled to make sense of puzzling pressure readings from the bottom of the sea Friday to determine whether BP`s capped oil well was holding tight.

Universe make-up: Missing piece found in particle puzzle

Last Updated: Tuesday, June 1, 2010, 11:22

Scientists announced they had identified missing piece of a major puzzle involving make-up of universe.

``Missing piece of jigsaw puzzle`` in brain message transmission found?

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 13, 2010, 16:53

Scientists have seemingly found the previously missing link that could help explain how our minds combine experiences from many different senses into one memory.