NASA’s Kepler telescope finds 1,284 new planets
The largest trove of planets outside our solar system — 1,284 in all — was announced on Tuesday, more than ...
Scientists produce jet fuel in “one-pot” recipe
Washington, May 10,2016: Scientists, including one of Indian-origin, have engineered a strain of bacteria that enables a ...
Regrowing body parts now closer to reality?
Washington : Researchers at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) and Arizona State University (ASU) have ...
SpaceX rocket launches satellite, then lands on ship at sea
Miami : SpaceX successfully landed the first stage of its unmanned Falcon 9 rocket on a floating platform in the Atlantic Ocean ...
230 million-year-old dinosaur footprint found in north Spain
Madrid : Spain says a footprint of a dinosaur that roamed the area 230 million years ago has been found in northeastern ...
Free will could all be an illusion, scientists suggest
A work published in the journal Psychological Science suggests that free will might be an illusion created by our ...
World’s largest telescope may be set up in Ladakh
New Delhi, May 1 ,2016 : After protests in Hawaii in the US against the proposed Thirty Metre Telescope (TMT) project, the ...
Scientists turn skin into heart cells
Scientists have turned skin into brain and beating heart cells, using a technique similar to the astonishing powers of ...
Astronomers find a tailless comet, first of its kind
An illustration of the observations with ESO’s Very Large Telescope, and the Canada France Hawai`i Telescope, showing ...
India’s GPS named ‘NAVIC’
New Delhi : India’s Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) will be known to the world as NAVIC, Prime Minister Narendra Modi ...