Science & Health

Aggressive mutant space bacteria poses serious risk to life on Earth, warns Russia

Bacteria and life, in general, go through a massive change in space and these mutated life forms could pose a serious risk to Earth, say the Russians.

Jul 8, 2018

Dengue grips Himachal town Bilaspur with 110 confirmed cases

A team from the central government is dispatched to monitor the situation.

Jul 8, 2018

Global warming is lot worse than expected and could turn out twice as bad: New study

The new study suggests that the carbon budget to avoid 2°C of global warming may be far smaller than estimated, leaving a very little margin for error to meet the Paris targets.

Jul 8, 2018

NASA pauses Kepler Space Telescope's observations to download data as mission draws to an end

NASA says that the fuel is running very low and it is likely to run out in a few months at best. Kepler has been staring at the cosmos since 2009 and over 2,600 planets have been found using it.

Jul 8, 2018

Alien UFO crash-landed just 80 miles away from England World Cup match stadium? Debris recovered

Local residents claim that the UFO is spherical in shape, and it has a diameter of more than 10 meters

Jul 8, 2018

Expanding as ever, space is huge; Milky Way is just a tiny dot in there

Trying to calculate the size of our home galaxy in any earthly unit of measurement is absolutely meaningless, as the numbers would be too large to comprehend

Jul 8, 2018

Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin wants to start setting up a human colony on moon by 2023

However, Blue Origin is not the one and only private firm that is looking to take the humans back to the moon and colonize it; several other players are also speeding up

Jul 7, 2018

Scientists may have actually found alien space rocks from under the ocean

Although the pair of rocks is tiny; they carry some features that connect them with a meteorite, which has managed to survive even after entering the Earth's atmosphere

Jul 7, 2018

How often do you feel isolated? It's all in the genes, suggests a new research

If you are feeling lonely and isolated while your friend is enjoying a party, it is partially due to your genetic coding, says the new research from the University of Cambridge.

Jul 7, 2018

Agriculture in space soon a reality? NASA astronauts might swap canned food for fresh greens

Agriculture in space will be the next big thing by NASA. In collaboration with a third-party, the space administration is studying crops that are expected to grow well in specific space conditions.

Jul 6, 2018

NASA finds superstar system shooting cosmic rays at us from 10,000 light years away

The Eta Carinae star system is about 7,500 light years from Earth and is the brightest star in what makes up the constellation Carina.

Jul 6, 2018

New research finds the Missing Middle - How ancient civilization survived in Chaco Canyon

Researchers have found out that Chaco Canyon has proofs of fully built canals, which were essentially water-diversion channels constructed to help the agriculture

Jul 6, 2018

No forests, no flora, no fauna? This is Southeast Asia's deforestation effect

According to a report, 29.3 million hectares of forest land has been lost from 2000 to 2014. According to the research paper's lead author, one of the main reasons for a majority of this is destruction was to make way for farming land.

Jul 6, 2018

NASA relents, ready to probe Sonic boom mystery as alien invasion fears grip

This is for the first time that NASA is trying to recover the remnants of a fallen meteorite from an ocean, and this has compelled many conspiracy theorists to believe something strange is happening

Jul 6, 2018

Summer heat peaks though Earth is farthest from Sun

Every January, the Earth is at its nearest- perihelion and around July it is far away from the Sun- aphelion. During the summer in the Northern hemisphere, which begins with June Summer Solstice, temperatures soar because of the axial tilt.

Jul 6, 2018