Science & Health

Stargazers capture Jupiter, its 4 moons in rare closest date with Earth in 59 years [Photos]

Stargazers across the world were left mesmerised when they caught the closest glimpse of the giant gas planet with its four moons -- some lucky souls saw it with just binoculars.

Sep 27, 2022

NASA's DART mission successfully hits asteroid in planetary defence test with 'kinetic impact' technique

After 10 months of flying in space, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) -- the world's first planetary defence technology demonstration -- successfully impacted its asteroid target, the agency's first attempt to move an asteroid in space.

Sep 27, 2022

Don't miss giant gas planet's closest date with Earth in 59 years

Jupiter was set to make its closest approach to Earth in 59 years on Monday and stargazers were waiting for an excellent view when the giant gas planet reaches "opposition". The next time Jupiter will come this close will be in 2129.

Sep 27, 2022

NASA has a plan to save Earth from "killer" asteroids; it'll hit it with spacecraft [details]

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), a first such mission, was set to impact its target asteroid -- which poses no threat to Earth -- at 7.14 p.m. on Monday (4.44 a.m. on Tuesday IST).

Sep 26, 2022

Humans should consider visiting Venus before Mars colonization, experts say

Venus has clouds filled with sulfuric acid, and it has a crushing atmosphere making it inhabitable

Sep 26, 2022

Covid-19 Update: India reports 4,129 new Covid cases, recovery rate stands at 98.72%

The country has recorded 20 more Covid related deaths, taking the national fatalities tally to 5,28,530 as per the report.

Sep 26, 2022

COVID cases in India: 4,777 fresh infections, 23 deaths reported [details]

Meanwhile, the active caseload of the country presently stands at 43,994 cases, accounting for 0.10 per cent of the country's total positive cases.

Sep 25, 2022

New COVID-like virus may infect humans; resistant to vaccines, antibodies [details]

A new multi-institutional study has found that Khosta-2, a virus that was identified in 2020 among bats in Russia, can infect human cells; these findings are significant as both SARS-CoV-2 and Khosta-2 are sarbecoviruses, a sub-category of coronaviruses.

Sep 23, 2022

Who is Dr M Srinivas; AIIMS Delhi gets new director [details]

Dr Srinivas is currently the Dean of Employees' State Insurance Corporation Hospital and Medical College (ESIC Hospital) in Hyderabad.

Sep 23, 2022

Eating walnuts everyday may lower your BMI, control BP [details]

The finding, published in the journal Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases, showed that those in the walnut-eating group had lower blood pressure than those that did not eat the nuts, reports the Daily Mail.

Sep 23, 2022

James Webb Space telescope captures stunning view of Neptune's rings

"It has been three decades since we last saw these faint, dusty rings, and this is the first time we've seen them in the infrared," Heidi Hammel, a Neptune system expert and interdisciplinary scientist for Webb, said in a statement.

Sep 22, 2022

Coronavirus Update: India logs 5,443 new Covid-19 cases, 26 deaths

The recovery of 5,291 patients in the last 24 hours took the cumulative tally to 4,39,78,271. Consequently, India's recovery rate stands at 98.71 per cent.

Sep 22, 2022

Google makes it simpler, provides new option to remove personal info from search directly

Google's "Results about you" tool, announced during its annual developer conference earlier this year, is now rolling out to some users, reports 9to5Google.

Sep 22, 2022

Several firsts for Indian rocket GSLV MkIII while flying with OneWeb's 36 satellites

India has launched 345 foreign satellites belonging to 36 countries using its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket.

Sep 21, 2022

World Alzheimer's Day: Obesity increases risk of Alzheimer's among middle-aged, say experts

It is a widely known fact that obesity is the source of all diseases and mid-life obesity is an established risk factor for Alzheimer's disease.

Sep 21, 2022