Science & Health

Watch: CDC officials quarantine Emirates Airbus A380 passengers at JFK

The Emirates Airbus A380 was met by the Centre for Disease Control and the Port Authority police when it landed in the Terminal 4 of JFK in New York.

Sep 6, 2018

NASA's Opportunity rover's days appear numbered as authorities may kill its operations

This kind of a dust-storm had caused Spirit rover to go into hibernation on Mars in 2010

Sep 6, 2018

Another bizarre hexagon vortex appears above Saturn's north pole; scientists puzzled

Before Cassini, the Voyager spacecraft of NASA had also discovered and documented a comparatively lower-altitude hexagon at Saturn's north pole in the 1980s

Sep 6, 2018

Russia develops new technology to carry tourists to the edge of space on balloons

There will be no space planes or rockets, so this could be the cheapest way to get to space and back.

Sep 6, 2018

Over 1.4 billon adults globally at risk of disease from lack of exercise, reveals WHO study

The study has also found that gender exercise gap is highest in Bangladesh, Eritrea, India, Iraq and the Philippines, with women lagging behind men.

Sep 5, 2018

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Trillion-ton Antarctic iceberg makes a full turn- headed for crash and no one knows why

Around July this year, one year after breaking from the shelf, the iceberg began to move. It was not readily seen as that part of the world remains under darkness in winter.

Sep 5, 2018

ISS leak could be an act of sabotage, alleges Russia as new theories do the rounds

"There were several attempts at drilling," by a "wavering hand", said the Chief of Roscosmos.

Sep 5, 2018

NASA ponders popularity of astronauts; New space launches may explore sponsors on earth now

Many think there will be a significant amount of resistance against this type of commercialization of NASA; as most scientists don't like the idea of commercializing their lives' works

Sep 5, 2018

Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan helps beggar on street and shows his benevolence (Watch video)

Helping people influences neural pathways in brain in positive way, says study

Helping people has a positive effect on one's brain - besides it being common knowledge, scientists have found evidence that it affects our neural pathways, and influence them to make us "feel good".

Sep 5, 2018

NASA to award thousands of dollars if you can convert Mars' CO2 into any useful molecule

If the inventors on Earth can come up with a brand new idea of turning CO2 into something useful, it will take the earthlings another step closer to the dream of colonizing the Red Planet

Sep 5, 2018

Making energy from algae: Will it help address bigger question of resolving energy crisis?

Scientists find a way to use algae to create energy - a process which replicates photosynthesis. However, the question remains: how easy would be the implementation of technologies such as this.

Sep 5, 2018

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Bereft of land, these ocean-filled planets could host life far better

"This really pushes back against the idea you need an Earth clone — that is, a planet with some land and a shallow ocean," to harbour life, say researchers.

Sep 4, 2018

Life on Mars? Like it or not, this is what human habitat on the red planet may look like

The HP-backed contest saw about 87,000 entries from all over the world, each contestant coming up with their own vision of a future in Mars

Sep 4, 2018

This new eye-tracking database may dictate the future of advertising budgets

Eye-tracking information has significant potential. By knowing how a healthy individual reads, a system can be created to analyze and help dyslexic people to recover discourse after head damage, while advertisers can plan future budgets based on the same.

Sep 4, 2018

How far Rakhigarhi excavation findings help eliminate Vedic fiction from facts?

Much has been said about the origins of the Vedic culture in the Indian subcontinent. However, recent, much-awaited discoveries at Rakhigarhi excavation site reveals much about the Indus Valley/Harappa civilisation and its people.

Sep 4, 2018

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Science & Health

Watch: CDC officials quarantine Emirates Airbus A380 passengers at JFK

NASA's Opportunity rover's days appear numbered as authorities may kill its operations

Another bizarre hexagon vortex appears above Saturn's north pole; scientists puzzled

Russia develops new technology to carry tourists to the edge of space on balloons

Over 1.4 billon adults globally at risk of disease from lack of exercise, reveals WHO study

Trillion-ton Antarctic iceberg makes a full turn- headed for crash and no one knows why

ISS leak could be an act of sabotage, alleges Russia as new theories do the rounds

NASA ponders popularity of astronauts; New space launches may explore sponsors on earth now

Helping people influences neural pathways in brain in positive way, says study

NASA to award thousands of dollars if you can convert Mars' CO2 into any useful molecule

Making energy from algae: Will it help address bigger question of resolving energy crisis?

Bereft of land, these ocean-filled planets could host life far better

Life on Mars? Like it or not, this is what human habitat on the red planet may look like

This new eye-tracking database may dictate the future of advertising budgets

How far Rakhigarhi excavation findings help eliminate Vedic fiction from facts?

Time for India to follow suit? France, Germany, Netherlands, US banned use of EVMs [here's why]

Dhanush's Captain Miller has no buyers in Telugu states? Here's why

Deepika Padukone is a sight to behold in velvet gown; attends Academy Museum Gala with Selena Gomez, Dua Lip [see pics]