Science & Enviroment

Google Search becomes country-specific by default
03:35 2017-11-02

San Francisco, Oct 28 (IANS) You will no longer have to manually enter country code top-level domain names to avail country-specific services for Google Search and Maps on the web and the Google iOS app. And this applies even when you travel from one country to another, for example from the US to India. Country …

Immortality Is Impossible, Say Scientists Studying the Mathematics of Aging
01:06 2017-11-02

While healthcare has dramatically extended our lifespans by preventing certain causes of death, aging still inevitably takes its fatal toll. And, as scientists report in a new Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences study, that’s not going to change: Whether it’s by cancer or run-of-the-mill cell destruction, aging and death is mathematically inescapable. In …

Gaming addiction probably isn’t a real condition, study suggests
23:40 2017-11-01

There may be no such thing as internet gaming addiction. People play excessively not because they are hooked on gaming itself, but because they feel unhappy about other areas of their life, according to a study that followed thousands of online gamers over six months. Internet gaming disorder is referenced in the Diagnostic and Statistical …

Massive black holes might lurk on edge of Milky Way
22:17 2017-11-01

New York, Oct 31:The outskirts of spiral galaxies like our own could be crowded with colliding black holes of massive proportions, says a study led by an Indian-origin researcher. The findings, to be published in an upcoming issue of the Astrophysical Journal Letters, point to a prime location for scientists hunting the sources of gravitational …

Two immigrants, their drone and American agribusiness
20:36 2017-11-01

CHICAGO (chicagobusiness.com): Naira Hovakimyan didn’t know any- thing about flight before she was hired to work on a new autopilot system as a young researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the late 1990s. These days, the University of Illinois math professor is all about drones. She’s co-founder of IntelinAir, a startup that uses …