The European Commission has announced plans to ban the use of facial recognition in public areas for at least five years. According to the officials, regulators want to stop the technology from being misused, BBC reported.

European Union considering five-year ban on facial recognition technology at public places

Thirty-six year-old Vallejo has worked with volcanoes at the Geophysical Institute of the National Polytechnic School for the last 13 years, where she is also a teacher. Her observations serve for the development and updating of risk maps.

Ecuadorean vulcanologist studies Reventador's explosive eruptions

SpaceX launched its third batch of 60 Starlink satellites on Monday (January 6), the first of its 2020 push to get 1.5k satellites into space to become operational before year's end.

SpaceX launches first batch of 2020 Starlink satellites

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the fifth India International Science Festival at 4 pm on Tuesday and address a gathering in Kolkata through video conferencing.

PM Modi to inaugurate 5th India International Science Festival

Diwali, the festival of lights, is just around the corner; and while all of us must stay away from crackers, there's no harm in pampering our loved ones with some gifts!

Smartwatch to soundbar: Your complete Diwali gift guide suiting all kinds of budget ranges

Three researchers on Wednesday won the Nobel Chemistry Prize for the development of lithium-ion batteries, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said. John Goodenough of the US - at 97 the oldest person to be awarded a Nobel prize - Britain's Stanley Whittingham and Japan's Akira Yoshino will share the $914,000 prize sum equally.

US-UK-Japan trio win chemistry Nobel for lithium-ion battery

Scientists James Peebles, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz won the 2019 Nobel Prize for Physics for ground-breaking work in astronomy, the award-giving body said on Tuesday.

Peebles, Mayor and Queloz win 2019 Nobel Prize for physics

Thousands gathered in Paris on Sunday to protest the government's plan to let single women and lesbians become pregnant with fertility treatments, the country's first major social reform since France legalised gay marriage in 2013.

Thousands protest French IVF law for lesbians, single women

We know what Neanderthals looked like. Now, thanks to ancient DNA, Israeli scientists have unveiled the appearance of another of our ancient relatives. Very few clues exist about the lives of the Denisovans cousins of Neanderthals who went extinct around 50,000 years ago: three teeth, a pinky bone, and a lower jaw.

Israel scientists unveil the appearance of ancient human relative

Russia's world-first floating nuclear power station on Saturday completed a 5,000-kilometre (3,100-mile) Arctic transfer to the country's far east, the Rosatom nuclear agency said.

Russia's world-first floating nuclear plant arrives in port

Trump's Suggestion To Alter The Course Of Hurricanes: Nuke Them!

Gravitas: Is Trump at war with Science?

Nearly three hundred scientists gathered in a global program for the planet are trying to promote a "big bang" of women in science, in order to motivate more girls to take an interest in this field and advance in the struggle for equality and visibility.

Women from all over the world promote a female 'big bang' in science

Whether anywhere other than Earth has harboured life, perhaps even in microbial form, is one of the paramount questions in science

NASA rover data shows Mars had the ingredients needed for life

The Economics question paper of class XII and Maths question paper of class X were leaked on social media hours before the examination

CBSE Political Science paper was also leaked, says a whistleblower

Chinese neuroscientists have gained a deeper understanding of how people simultaneously recognize the face of a child, while at the same time visually resolving individual eyelash hairs

Watch: Chinese scientists reveal how brain decodes visual information effortlessly

Sophia, the world's first humanoid citizen, today delivered a speech here and said she will be the first non-human to conquer the world's highest peak Mt Everest

World's first humanoid citizen Sophia says will scale Everest

He said that 'Hawking was a friend of India and will be remembered as one of world's greatest motivators'

Manipur: Narendra Modi address Indian Science Congress, pays home to Stephen Hawking

According to reports, Hawking passed away peacefully at his residence in Cambridge, UK

Video: Legendary scientist Stephen Hawking dies at 76

Pi day is an annual celebration of the π (pi) defined as the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter

Google Doodle celebrates 'Pi' day

India earned 25 per cent of the more than 7.5 million awarded S&E bachelor's level degrees in 2014, followed closely by China (22 per cent), the EU (12 per cent) and the US (10 per cent). Nearly half of all degrees awarded in China are in S&E fields

India tops in producing bachelors in science, engineering

A mysterious partial skull unearthed in Papua New Guinea in 1929 that once was thought to belong to an extinct human species now turns out to have another unique distinction. Scientists believe it belongs to the oldest-known human tsunami victim.

Ancient Papua New Guinea skull called oldest-known tsunami victim

Bonus marks were awarded to each candidate as the answer key to seven questions was lost

Indian Supreme Court stays IIT counselling over "bonus marks" in IIT-JEE Advance

The demonstrations countered what organisers say is a growing disregard for evidence-based knowledge in Washington under President Trump

Earth Day: March for Science draws big crowds across US and beyond

Berlin's Natural History Museum has partnered with Google to create a virtual reality experience

Video: Dinosaurs roar back to life through virtual reality

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