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A team of researchers at the University of Michigan (UM) said it is working to develop unique software that can detect lie by considering a speaker’s gestures and words.

The researchers said they are building the software based on real-world data and for that they studying the videos from high-stakes court cases. The software, so far, has shown 75% of accuracy in identifying who was being deceptive as compared with humans’ scores of just above 50%, said study researchers.

They also noted that the individuals who lied moved their hands more frequently. They even tried to sound more certain. The individuals who lie also looked their questioners in the eye a bit more often than those presumed to be telling the truth, among other behaviors.

A new study has solved the long held belief that happiness is strongly linked to longevity. The team that presented their findings in The Lancet studied almost 700,000 women in Britain.

Although being unhappy or depressed might make you take less care of your health, according to the study it do not make you less healthy the findings of the new study contradicts what the previously conducted studies have shown in past.

The team led by the University of Oxford’s Professor Sir Richard Peto, for their study looked at the data from the UK Million Women Study, which tracked women’s health outcomes for a long period.

Cheerleaders get injured less frequent than other sportspersons, but the severity of those injuries is worse. A research has suggested that cheerleaders can be secured against injuries with more awareness.

Jumping and throwing is a part of cheerleading, and a single mistake can end up in severe injury. Instead of considering the cheerleading a school activity, it should be taken as a sport, according to the research. It will bring more safety requirements and practice venues if considered as a sport.

Dustin Currie from the Colorado School of Public Health said, “Our research shows that at the national level in terms of typical day-to-day sports participation cheerleading is not particularly dangerous and appears perhaps to be even safer than other sports”.

Conservationists announced Wednesday that an extremely rare Philippine eagle chick, also known as monkey-eating eagle, has been hatched in captivity. They also said the first birth in last two years could help in the endangered species’ battle against extinction.

The official bird species ofPhilippine is critically endangered as the world has no more than 600 great Philippine eagles, according to reports. Conservationists said the newly born chick will boost the species’ fight. The chick born undera breeding program in the Davao province is first at the center in last about two years, they added.

Dead people cannot tell when and how they died,but their microbes can do. A new research has suggested that bacteria, fungi, and other microbes present beneath a dead body could tell the time of death.

The new research could be beneficial for forensic science experts, and police. It could help them in better pinpointing the time of death.David Carter, a forensic scientist from Chaminade University of Honolulu, who was part of the new research, said, “When you have a case that’s being treated as a homicide, you want to collect as many different lines of physical evidence as possible”.

A newly identified species of whale has been named after Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. The sperm whale got a revision, but its discovery is about 90-year-old old. Researchers speculate that the whale was actually a beast. They were big, but there family tree was small as only three living species are known today.

Researchers examined the whale’s fossil history and found that the family was once filled with variety of whales of various sizes and shapes. Now, the researchers have added a new sperm whale species to array Albicetus oxymycterus.