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If you thought only humans or primates can forge and use tools, you are wrong. Crows can make, use, and even store for re-use certain tools while foraging for food, a new study shows. Scientists have captured video recordings showing how wild New Caledonian crows make and use “hooked stick tools” to hunt for insect prey. Video recordings by Jolyon …

A whopping 95 percent of the teens, aged between 13 and 17 years, access the Internet while 76 percent of minors, below the age of 13, use YouTube daily, a new survey released here on Monday revealed. One is required to be of above 18 years of age to open an account on YouTube, the video-sharing website. Social media networking …

हाइलैंड: यूनाइटेड किंगडम के हाईलैंड के पीक डिस्ट्रिक्ट फारेस्ट में स्थित एक ऐसा अनोखा पेड़ है जो पैसों से लदा हुआ है। विशेषज्ञों का मानना है कि यह पेड़ 1700 साल पुराना है और ब्रिटिश सिक्कों से जड़ा हुआ है। और देखने में अद्भुत प्रतीत होता है। इस पेड़ की इतनी चर्चा है कि जिसे लेकर कई तरह की बातें की …

Smartphones will become obsolete within five years and would be replaced with artificial intelligence, according to a consumer survey by the Ericsson owned ConsumerLab. Half of the study’s respondents said they thought mobile technology would be redundant by 2021 as the growth of artificial intelligence starts enabling interaction with objects without the need for a phone or tablet, Sydney Morning …

Most people can tell if you are angry by looking at your face or behaviour but what if how you move a computer mouse can predict your anger or frustration? According to professor Jeffrey Jenkins from Brigham Young University, people experiencing anger and other negative emotions like frustration, confusion and sadness become less precise in their mouse movements and move …

Smartphones, tablets and e-readers should have an automatic “bedtime mode” that stops them disrupting people’s sleep, a study revealed. Researchers from Evelina London Children’s Hospital sleep medicine department, King’s College London and the University of Surrey, measured short-wavelength blue light devices like tablets (iPad Air), e-readers (Kindle Paperwhite first generation) and smartphones (iPhone 5s) emit when displaying text or a …

A 63-year-old man arrived here to participate in the first India International Science Fair (IISF) on Monday, using a self-developed solar electric-powered car to cover 3,000 km from Bangalore to Delhi. It took Syed Sajjan Ahmed 30 days to cover the arduous journey, that included crossing the Vindhyas. Born in Kolar, 70 km from Bangalore, the Class 12 dropout, says …

In a bid to promote Uttar Pradesh as an international bird watching destination, the state forest department, in collaboration with FICCI, will hold a three-day international festival on birds at the National Chambal Sanctuary (NCS) in Agra, an official said. The festival starts on December 4 and will end on December 6. As many as 25 top international bird experts …

If you are young and love Facebook, keep it to just “liking” and minimise your virtual circle of friends to cut the upcoming depression risk. According to researchers, the social networking site can have positive and negative effects on the levels of a common stress hormone in teenagers. The team found that having more than 300 Facebook friends increased teenagers’ …

Use of polyethene across Uttar Pradesh may be banned by this year end, an official said on Thursday. The Allahabad High Court (HC) has directed the state government to ban the use of polyethene across the state by December 31. Responding to the rap by the court with regard to delay in baning polythene sheets and bags, the government informed …