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Studies indicate that a strong shared interest within a learning group will foster language acquisition. (Photo: Pixabay)

Video games can help learn new language

Simone Bregni, associate professor at Saint Louis University in Spain, started playing video games in 1975 when he was...

22 April 2018 5:46 PM IST

Law enforcement officers are often inundated with cases involving the sexual solicitation of minors. (Photo: Pixabay)

Novel tool can spot potential child rapists in online chatrooms

CATT algorithms examine only the conversation factors and do not take the sex of either suspect or victim into...

22 April 2018 5:38 PM IST

To complete their 3D portrait of the virus, they combined their results with information drawn from other imaging techniques. (Photo: Pixabay)

How cancer-causing virus clings to our DNA decoded

To complete their 3D portrait of the virus, they combined their results with information drawn from other imaging...

22 April 2018 5:32 PM IST

He had already been mauled by a bear and bitten by a rattlesnake, all in less than four years. (Photo: Pixabay)

Hawaii shark bite victim previously attacked by bear, snake

Dylan McWilliams was bodyboarding in the ocean off Kauai when what he believed to be a tiger shark chomped him on the...

22 April 2018 5:09 PM IST

You might think having people watch you isnt going to help, but it might actually make you perform better. (Photo: Pixabay)

Being watched may boost your performance: study

You might think having people watch you isn't going to help, but it might actually make you perform better.

22 April 2018 3:40 PM IST

Social media and the sharing economy have created opportunities by leveraging online networks to build trust and remove market barriers. (Photo: Pixabay)

Social media algorithms discriminating against women: study

When algorithms were turned loose on this exclusive network of ultra-engaging individuals, women's visibility plunged.

22 April 2018 2:56 PM IST

The study said that 61 per cent product managers quit within two years of working at a place. (Photo: Pixabay)

Millennials switching jobs fast, techies lead the way: Study

The study said that 61 per cent product managers quit within two years of working at a place.

22 April 2018 2:30 PM IST

Potentially inappropriate or unnecessary medications included sleeping tablets, pain drugs, depression drugs and acid reflux drugs. (Photo: Pixabay)

Dementia patients likely to take unnecessary medicines: study

These medications are typically recommended for short term use but are commonly used long term by people with dementia.

22 April 2018 2:19 PM IST

Representational Image. (Photo: Pixabay)

The stronger you are, the healthier your brain

Here is what a new study has found.

22 April 2018 12:30 PM IST

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Science Says: Amount of straws, plastic pollution is huge

437 million to 8.3 billion plastic straws are on the entire world's coastlines.

22 April 2018 11:15 AM IST

Representational Image. (Photo: Pixabay)

Organic tampons, cups no safer against toxic shock: study

Menstrual cups seemed to allow even more bacteria to grow than tampons.

22 April 2018 10:38 AM IST

Representational Image. (Photo: Pixabay)

Fashion and the environment, an uncomfortable fit for McCartney

Textile production was responsible for 1.2 billion tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions annually.

22 April 2018 10:06 AM IST