The ability to perceive the five basic tastes – sweet, sour, salty, bitter and umami (savoury) – is hardwired in our brains, according to scientists who were able to switch taste on and off through brain manipulation. “Taste, the way you and I think of it, is ultimately in the brain,” said study leader Charles…
Scientists have produced a strain of mosquitoes carrying genes that block the transmission of the malaria parasite, with the hope they could breed with wild populations and produce offspring that cannot spread the disease. The American researchers used gene-editing, a genetic engineering technique in which DNA can be inserted, replaced or deleted from a genome,…
NEW DELHI: Microsoft announced the Windows 10 last year, a news that elated scores of Windows 8 users who finally had a better version of Windows to look forward to. The Redmond-based tech giant incorporated a number of changes to the new version of Windows, including the new task view, Continuum, universal search, etc. Windows…
MUMBAI: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and France-based Gfi Informatique – a value-added IT services and software vendor – on Tuesday said they have entered into a strategic partnership agreement on smart cities to meet the requirements of digital initiatives in public transportation, water, and energy. The French company will include Intelligent Urban Exchange – an…
Fourteen-year-old Lucas Etter dragged the world record for solving a 3×3 Rubik’s Cube under 5 seconds at Saturday’s River Hill Fall competition in Clarksville, Maryland, where he solved a cube in 4.904 seconds. The World Cube Association verified the achievement with a post on its website early this morning. Etter’s performance shaved three-tenths of a second from…
The whole of the nation of India has sat up and taken notice of the feats accomplished by a 16-year-old in a junior Mumbai tournament on Tuesday – Arjun Tendulkar. The son of Sachin Tendulkar, Indian cricket’s highest God, Arjun, smashed a century in a fashion that has been compared to Yuvraj Singh. Arjun scored 106…
India spanked Pakistan 6-2 to clinch the eight Junior Men’s Asia Cup at Wisma Belia Stadium in Kuantan, Malaysia on Sunday. Rising to the occasion with their traditional hockey play and Harmanpreet Singh’s hat-trick, India spanked Pakistan 6-2 to clinch the eight Junior Men’s Asia Cup at the Wisma Belia Stadium on Sunday. India started…
BOSTON (CBS Connecticut)– Sleeping directly after learning new information may improve your memory, according to a new study. Brigham and Women’s Hospital researchers closely evaluated 14 participants and found that they were substantially better at remembering information like faces and names of people if they were able to get up to eight hours of sleep afterward….
In the IAS main exam, for Paper I and Paper II of the Optional subject, there is a choice, so that you don’t have to attempt all questions. Therefore it is important to read the question papers carefully right at the beginning. Each question should be read at least twice before deciding which questions are…
PUNE: City youth Abishek Pant, a final-year computer science student of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, has bagged a job with a whopping Rs 2-crore annual package, including stock option, at Google Inc. The 22-year-old, who finished a three-month internship at Google California earlier this year, went through another rigorous round of interviews before…
