Science & Health

Building a cloud in space – Finnish IT company taking space industry into the 21st century

Reaktor, an IT company in Finland wants to send up thousands of tiny satellites called cubesats into near-Earth orbit.

Dec 7, 2016

This Bengaluru-based startup can treat vertigo and stroke with a unique gadget

The gadget, named 'Balance Eye', primarily has an application in neurology, ENT as well as in emergency care.

Dec 7, 2016

US will average a 180 percent increase in extreme downpours by 2100

These extreme downpours caused due to climate change are dangerous because they can cause flash floods.

Dec 7, 2016

Paris using odd-even traffic rule to beat pollution

Car pools, emergency vehicles like ambulances, police cars, etc or vehicles used for delivering food or foreign vehicles were not affected.

Dec 7, 2016

Speed of light: Google marks 340-year anniversary of the remarkable discovery

Google has a thoughtful Doodle on its homepage to pay tribute to the determination of the speed of light.

Dec 7, 2016

NASA's Cassini Saturn Probe: Here are the details about first ring-grazing mission around planet [VIDEO]

The spacecraft covered a distance of around 57,000 miles above Saturn's cloud, just 6,800 miles away from Saturn's 500 mile-wide F ring.

Dec 7, 2016

Hospitalised Sushma Swaraj helps world's heaviest woman from Egypt to get a second chance at life

Eman Ahmed, 36, a resident of Alexandria in Egypt is bed-ridden and weighs 500 kg.

Dec 7, 2016

Supermoon December 2016: Get ready to watch the last Supermoon, till 2034

The next time you will have the opportunity to admire this astronomical event will be on November 25, 2034.

Dec 6, 2016

SpaceX to launch 10-satellite constellation for Iridium Communications on December 16

The 10 satellites-constellation of Iridium Communications will be launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

Dec 6, 2016

Are Caesareans changing human evolution by producing larger babies?

The number of babies who can't fit in the birth canal rose from 30 in 1,000 in the 1960s to 36 in 1,000 births today.

Dec 6, 2016

'Dead zone' discovered in the Indian Ocean

This is the first dead zone discovered in the South-East Asia region.

Dec 6, 2016

Biocon to maintain margin despite fall in India sales: Kiran Mazumdar Shaw

Despite a dip in domestic sales after demonetisation, Biocon's export realisations have improved on a depreciating rupee.

Dec 6, 2016

Al Gore calls Donald Trump meeting ‘extremely interesting’

Former US Vice-president Al Gore, a prominent climate activist, met with President-elect Donald Trump on 5 December.Trump has called man-made climate change a hoax while Gore is one of the best known crusaders in the fight against it. During the 2016 US presidential election Gore said Trump’s polices would ‘take us toward a climate catastrophe’. After the meeting, Gore called it ‘extremely interesting’. After the election on 22 November, Trump said that he had an ‘open mind’ on the Paris Agreement on climate change - in stark contrast to what he said on his election campaign.

Dec 6, 2016

Global Warming Effects: Ice on North Pole likely to disappear within 2 years

The temperatures recorded by the weather stations around the North Pole are warmer this year than they usually are.

Dec 6, 2016

The health of your bones could tell you if you have Alzheimer's

Less than 5 percent of Alzheimer's cases exist due to genetics, which makes it difficult to detect the disease in its early stages.

Dec 6, 2016