Google to launch car that drives by itself

LONDON - Internet giant Google will soon launch a car that can drive by itself.

New software can miraculously alter actors’ images

LONDON - Drastically gaining or losing body weight for a coveted film role has long proved the ultimate test for method actors.

Sea level monitoring ‘best way to predict impacts of climate change’

NEW DELHI - An Australian leading ocean scientist has said that more thorough sea level monitoring is needed to protect one trillion dollars (0.98 trillion U.S. dollars) worth of the world’s infrastructure threatened by climate change.

5 meanest sites your kids should never visit

WASHINGTON - Want to keep your children away from cyberbullying? Well, below are the names of websites that kids should never visit.

New cancer drug may end chemo misery

London, Oct (ANI): Scientists have developed a new cancer treatment that can safely deliver extremely high chemotherapy doses with minimal side effects.

Psychologist develops new tool to measure anxiety levels

WASHINGTON - Scientists have developed a new instrument to help clinicians determine more objectively a patient’s level of anxiety.

Wanted: A team to look for Bigfoot

BEIJING - A research association in China has launched a global recruitment drive to form a team to search for the legendary and elusive ape-like creature called Bigfoot.

Womb transplant offers new hope to infertile women

LONDON - Infertile women may soon be able to conceive with scientists bringing womb transplant closer to reality.

New drug shows promise against platinum resistant ovarian cancer

WASHINGTON - An international research group has reported that a drug being developed as a treatment for ovarian cancer has shown single agent activity with durable disease control in some patients in a Phase-II clinical trial.

At 85, he spearheads a green campaign

LUCKNOW - He is a freedom fighter who continues to fight passionately for a cause. Meet Raghuvansh Dubey, 85, a native of Uttar Pradesh’s Gorakhpur district who has been spearheading a green campaign for the past nearly 30 years.

Fossil of new dinosaur species found in China

BEIJING - Scientists in China have discovered the fossils of a previously-unknown dinosaur species - a meat-eating theropod.

Google tests self-driving car in California

LONDON - Engineers at Google tested a car that drives on its own on the streets of California, the company has announced.

UNESCO team to visit plateau of flowers

SATARA - A team of experts from UNESCO will visit Maharashtra’s picturesque Kaas Plateau where an amazing variety of wild flowers grow to examine a proposal of granting it world heritage site status, a top official said here.