Science & Health

Wonder why angry people are not so smart? They overestimate their intelligence, says study

While anger is not really related to intelligence, a study has found that angry people are more likely to overestimate their intelligence.

Aug 6, 2018

Government coverup alleged after a huge meteor spotted near US military base

Conspiracy theorists believe that the government is intentionally covering up news about potentially dangerous space bodies to avoid public panic

Aug 6, 2018

Largest ocean clean-up project ever will attempt to sweep the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

The Ocean Cleanup wants to clear the largest garbage in the ocean by 2040.

Aug 6, 2018

Watch the Moon get hit by two asteroids and the light show that followed

The moon received two rocks to its face from space while passing through the tail of Comet 169P/NEAT, said the ESA.

Aug 6, 2018

Rogue planet not attached to any star found wandering through the Milky Way

The mystery planet is not the Planet X or Nibiru and is about 20 light years away.

Aug 6, 2018

Sturgeon Moon this month: Where to see full Moon, Mercury and Venus

As the red planet retreats, this month's biggest attraction, apart from the Moon itself will be Mercury and Venus.

Aug 5, 2018

Watch: Nuclear waste containers put through demanding tests to see if they will fail

Nuclear waste transportation is a tricky, high stakes process that requires a lot of safety and testing, this is one such test.

Aug 5, 2018

What if suddenly Earth turns into a huge pile of soft and mushy blueberries?

A blueberry Earth will have "a steam atmosphere covering an ocean of jam on top of warm blueberry granite," assumes an Oxford researcher

Aug 5, 2018

ISRO Chandrayaan-2: India's mission to Moon faces another delay- launch moved to 2019

India was all set to be the fourth country to land on the Moon, but this delay could mean Israel will it make there by 2019, before India.

Aug 5, 2018

Saridon, D'Cold Total and Phensedyl among 300 drug combinations likely to get banned

Last year, the Supreme Court had asked the DTAB to list the FDCs that needs to be regulated or banned or restricted, along with reasons, following which the drugmakers fought a long legal battle against the government.

Aug 5, 2018

NASA names Indian-origin astronaut Sunita Williams among 9 chosen for human spaceflight

Williams has been named for the Boeing programme to the ISS - the first test flight scheduled to take place in the middle of 2019.

Aug 4, 2018

51-year-old man from Iraq gets artificial heart transplant at Delhi hospital

The patient had suffered several bullet injuries when he was held captive by terrorists.

Aug 4, 2018

Los Angeles was colder than the Arctic tundra this week with temperatures reaching 32 C

Banak, a town off the northern coast of Norway sits over 563 km above the bottom edge of the Arctic Circle and it was 32 C there this week. Towns further up north than Banak experienced 29C to 30C peak temperatures this week.

Aug 3, 2018

'High regional risk' likely due to Congo Ebola outbreak, says WHO

The outbreak was detected earlier this week after four people tested positive for the virus.

Aug 3, 2018

NASA recreates how a Milky Way Star fought siblings 170 years ago, exploded but survived

Though it is not possible to travel back to the 1800s to once again see and record the actual eruption, a "rebroadcast" of sorts was captured by scientists, about 170 years later, now.

Aug 3, 2018