Science & Health

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

Once upon a time there was a star.., narrates NASA

A supernova remnant is a sign of an exploded star. In this particular image, red filaments belong to a supernova remnant HBH 3, first detected in 1966.

Aug 3, 2018

Jeff Bezos addresses the media about the New Shepard rocket booster

As space race heats up, Amazon's Bezos spends more cash than ever to fuel Blue Origin's growth

Jeff Bezos is on a hiring spree, having spent millions to bring on board more engineers and speed up the development of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket, as it looks to compete in the increasingly crowded space race, now dominated by Elon Musk's SpaceX.

Aug 3, 2018

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Science & Health

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Once upon a time there was a star.., narrates NASA

As space race heats up, Amazon's Bezos spends more cash than ever to fuel Blue Origin's growth

Canada telescope picks new radio signal from distant planet, scientists puzzled over source

Kolkata on swine flu alert. Here are the symptoms and treatment

Hope Diamond: Blue gem was born hundreds of kilometres below Indian mine

Ancient 5,000-year-old prehistoric mass graves could be the result of tsunamis

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]