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If she is yet to respond to your email request for a date this weekend, don’t get hassled. This is because you may have to wait about four minutes longer for an email response from a woman than an email response from a man, an interesting study has revealed. While you may also be obsessing if an email never arrived …

Women college students spend an average of 10 hours a day on their cellphones and male college students spend nearly eight, reveals new research from a US university. “That is astounding,” said lead study author James Roberts, professor at Baylor University in Texas, US. The findings suggest that excessive cellphone use poses potential risks for academic performance. “As cellphone functions …

कर्नाटक – जिला शिमोगा स्थित मत्तूरु गाँव एक ऐसा गाँव है जहां का बच्चा बच्चा संस्कृत में बात करता है फिर चाहे वह हिंदू हों या मुसलमान। इस गांव में रहने वाले सभी लोग संस्कृत में ही बात करते हैं। तुंग नदी के किनारे बसा ये गांव बेंगलुरु से ३०० किलोमीटर की दूरी पर स्थित है। इस गांव में संस्कृत प्राचीनकाल से …

Parents, take note! One-on-one tutoring can relieve math anxiety in kids by fixing abnormal responses in the brain’s fear circuits, scientists, including those of Indian-origin, have found. The study is the first to document an effective treatment for math anxiety in children, researchers said. “The most exciting aspect of our findings is that cognitive tutoring not only improves performance, but …

If the thought of walking home alone worries you anytime, here comes a public safety mobile phone app that offers you a virtual company by allowing your friends or family members to a keep watch over you. The application named “Companion”, originally developed by students of University of Michigan in the US with the aim of providing lone travellers in …

Tracking mobile phone data can help predict how infectious diseases will spread seasonally, a large-scale study has found. Researchers from Princeton University and Harvard University used anonymous mobile phone records for more than 15 million people to track the spread of rubella in Kenya and were able to quantitatively show for the first time that mobile phone data can predict …

Scientists, led by an Indian-origin engineer, have identified a novel way to keep a surface dry for months when submerged in water, an advance that may save billions of dollars in a variety of industries. The research team at Northwestern University in US is the first to identify the ideal “roughness” needed in the texture of a surface to keep …

Spending more than two hours daily on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram can put your kids at the risk of developing poor mental health, high psychological distress and even suicidal thoughts, new research shows. “The findings send an important message to parents and suggest an opportunity to increase mental health support service offerings on these websites,” said researchers Hugues Sampasa-Kanyinga and …

You can hide it from everyone around you, but your phone knows when you are upset and can even detect you depression. According to a research conducted by the Northwestern University, depression can be detected from smart-phone sensor data by tracking the number of minutes a person uses the phone and his daily geographical locations. The research claims that the …

Researchers have developed a new Wi-Fi-style technology that allows multiple mobile devices to be charged from a distance without the need for chargers. With this technology, so long as mobile users stay in a designated area where the charging is available, eg, the Wi-Power zone, the device, without being tethered to a charger, will pick up power automatically, as needed. …