Science & Health

Daulatram Jogawat, MP inspector fat-shamed by Shobhaa De, arrives in Mumbai for obesity treatment

Daulatram Jogawat is in Mumbai to undergo treatment for obesity at Centre for Obesity and Digestive Surgery under Dr Mufazzal Lakdawala, a bariatric surgeon and laparoscopy expert.

Feb 27, 2017

International Polar Bear Day: Here are 10 facts you may not know about polar bears

On the occasion of International Polar Bear Day, which is celebrated every year on February 27, let's take a look at the top 10 facts about polar bears.

Feb 27, 2017

#7Namesfor7NewPlanets: After Nasa finds Trappist-1, Twitter goes crazy over naming new planets

NASA announced last week that seven Earth-sized exoplanets were found 40 light years ago.

Feb 27, 2017

NASA's focus on using humans in space exploration is myopic at best, apocalyptic at worst!

What we need is to revisit is the Von Neumann probe model that will not only allow us to expand our scientific knowledge of the moons, but also allow the foundation of future human biomes to be laid.

Feb 26, 2017

Getting sacked is indeed stressful; here are the dos and don'ts to help you sail through stress and depression

In view of the recent notice to 200 Snapdeal employees and sacking of Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri, here's a list of dos and don'ts to help you deal with stress and depression.

Feb 25, 2017

The Trappist-1 system sounds wonderful, but would humans survive the interstellar journey?

So does NASA's discovery mean that we'll be off to our new home sometime soon? Hardly, in fact humans might never set foot in the Trappist-1 system; not live ones, at least.

Feb 24, 2017

Nasa finally retrieves its balloon from Antarctica after a year of blizzards

A helium balloon the size of a football pitch was airborne around the continent of Antarctica for 12 days in 2016, but it took Nasa a whole year of waiting for the weather to be safe enough to go and pick it up. The scientists have now collected the expensive telescope the balloon carried to observe the Sun.

Feb 24, 2017

Nasa finally retrieves its balloon from Antarctica after a year of blizzards

A helium balloon the size of a football pitch was airborne around the continent of Antarctica for 12 days in 2016, but it took Nasa a whole year of waiting for the weather to be safe enough to go and pick it up. The scientists have now collected the expensive telescope the balloon carried to observe the Sun.

Feb 24, 2017

Scientists train bumblebees to score goals with tiny footballs for treats

A new scientific study has proved that bees can learn how to complete complex goal-orientated problems. The study, undertaken by Olli J Loukola, teaches bees how to move a small ball into the centre of a ring.

Feb 24, 2017

What is needed for life on another planet?

Dr Robert Massey, Deputy Executive Director at the Royal Astronomical Society, tells IBTimes UK some of the most important things that a planet would need to have if it was to sustain life forms.

Feb 23, 2017

What is needed for life on another planet?

Dr Robert Massey, Deputy Executive Director at the Royal Astronomical Society, tells IBTimes UK some of the most important things that a planet would need to have if it was to sustain life forms.

Feb 23, 2017

Older moms are likely to have smarter kids, a study reveals

Our research is the first to look at how the cognitive abilities of children born to older mothers have changed over time and what might be responsible for this shift, said the paper's lead author, Dr Alice Goisis.

Feb 23, 2017

Would humans survive the journey to the Trappist-1 system?

The fastest moving machine humans have ever developed is the Voyager 2, which is travelling at about 17kms, at that speed it would take us about 700,000 years to reach the Trappist-1 system.

Feb 23, 2017

How Tamil Nadu's snake trackers are saving Florida's wildlife from pythons

The snake trackers belong to the Irula tribe in Tamil Nadu. They were invited by a python researcher to rid of Burmese pythons in Florida's Everglades.

Feb 23, 2017

NASA looks to solve mystery behind the presence of dark matter in massive M31 galaxy

A concentration of pulsars (neutron stars) present in the centre of M31 is also assumed to be the reason behind the strong gamma ray emissions. The pulsars weigh almost twice as much as the Sun

Feb 23, 2017