Science & Health

After scrapping drone project, Facebook looks at satellites to boost internet connectivity

The social media giant filed an application with the US Federal Communications Commission under the name PointView Tech LLC to provide broadband access through a satellite named Athena.

Jul 21, 2018

Google translator hides mysterious message over doomsday and apocalypse

Conspiracy theorists believe that Satan is using science and technological tools like Google to convey his messages

Jul 21, 2018

The 12 men in history, who went for a moonwalk

July 20 marks the 49th anniversary of the first time when a man had walked on the surface of Moon.

Jul 20, 2018

Drinking diet soda can keep colon cancer from recurring, says Yale researcher

Those who drank one or more 12-ounce artificially-sweetened drink a day saw a 46 percent improvement in the risk of cancer recurrence or death compared to those who didn't drink such beverages.

Jul 20, 2018

Mumbai youth suffers cardiac arrest during weight lifting, sustains brain damage

The 22-year-old collapsed at the gym due to cardiac arrest while lifting weights. Though the doctors were able to revive him even after his heart had stopped beating for over 10 minutes, he might have sustained brain damage.

Jul 20, 2018

What's our geological age? It's named after Meghalayan findings

This new age had kick-started 4250 years ago, with the mega-drought that crippled civilizations all around the globe, according to experts

Jul 20, 2018

Armed with new evidence, scientists confident a young star could gobble up entire planet

Astronomers have been, for some time, curious about the variability, shown by an RW Aur A, a young star and now they have new information about the change in its brightness; thanks to Chandra

Jul 20, 2018

Mysterious black granite sarcophagus opened in Egypt; Does it belong to King Alexander?

Archeologists have found three decomposed bodies inside the huge sarcophagus that was discovered in Alexandria, Egypt.

Jul 20, 2018

How does the centre of Milky Way look like? This new telescope is here to show us

Milky Way's centre is basically one of those areas that are extremely difficult to take a look at, as it's enveloped by gas clouds and dust but MeerKAT is capable of looking through these clouds

Jul 19, 2018

Indian adults sleep better if they earn more, reveals survey

The survey conducted across New Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru indicate that there is also a direct correlation between productivity and sleep. Read other interesting facts on sleep.

Jul 19, 2018

99-million-year-old baby snake fossil found, sheds light into lost world [Watch]

Scientists have discovered the oldest fossil of a baby snake, which is dated back to the Mesozoic Era around 99 million years ago. It sheds light on the mystery of how snakes evolved.

Jul 19, 2018

Oldest bread ever baked predates human farming by 4,000 years

This finding suggests that farming itself might have come from the drive to get better ingredients so that bread and cooking, in general, could be better.

Jul 18, 2018

Are we a product of free will? Physicists believe that it does not even exist

In a mechanised universe, free will cannot, by design exist, in a chaotic universe, free will is nothing more than an illusion, then who controls it all?

Jul 18, 2018

Air pollution is good, smog can do wonders for the planet − that's a govt-funded study from China

The dreaded Beijing smog helps plants grow and thrive better, a new study says. It even claims that the fight against pollution can have an adverse impact on the efforts to control climate change.

Jul 18, 2018

Bengaluru metro expansion: Over 400 trees in danger; forest dept to translocate younger trees to parks

The forest department says that there are around 1,250 trees on the Silk Board and KR Puram stretch, but most are too small. Around 500 trees, which will hamper construction are the cause of concern for officials.

Jul 18, 2018