Science & Health

US government asks science questions to test public knowledge: Here's how India did

The US government conducts a survey every two years to try and understand how much the general public knows about science and technology. Here are the most recent results of the survey.

May 28, 2018

Ghost or UFO? Video triggers controversy, MUFON probe is on

A video showing an alleged spirit on the ground that suddenly shoots up to the sky in the most mysterious manner is generating a heated debate on spirits to aliens.

May 27, 2018

Remembering 12 astronauts who stepped on Moon

Twelve people have walked on the Moon till now, here is a quick list to remember them by.

May 27, 2018

Antarctica has whole mountain ranges and valleys buried deep beneath its ice

The land area of the frozen continent has whole mountain ranges and massive valleys that keep the ice sheet stable and prevent ice from East Antarctica from flowing through to West Antarctica and eventually out to the coast, influencing rising sea levels globally.

May 27, 2018

Life on Mars? Iron-rich Martian rocks near lakes could have hosted life 4 billion years back

If life existed on Mars in the past, and there is a strong likelihood of that being true. The best places to look for life would be inside the iron-rich rocks near ancient lakes, according to scientists.

May 27, 2018

Mars rover Curiosity successfully resumes drilling after remote hackathon by NASA engineers

The dead drilling motor on Mars rover Curiosity was successfully replaced with alternate robotic arms remotely by NASA scientists at JPL and the rover is back in sample collection at Gale Crater

May 26, 2018

Dinosaur dandruff: How are the feathered raptor flakes different from that of modern day birds

Experts believe that the dandruff evolved during the Middle Jurassic period when feathered dinosaurs came into existence.

May 26, 2018

Ex Google CEO Eric Schmidt says Elon Musk is 'wrong' on AI

Space X CEO Elon Musk has been a critic of Artificial Intelligence and has asked for strict control of the technology to curb its threat. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, however, says that AI is more good than bad.

May 26, 2018

Obese people are more likely to survive infections in hospitals than others

In three different studies conducted in the United States and Denmark, obese people in hospitals are found to be more likely to survive infections ranging from pneumonia to sepsis, say researchers.

May 25, 2018

Do black holes die? Life and death of the most powerful forces in the cosmos

Black holes are not the scary space vacuum cleaners that suck up all matter around them - they are dying stars that have immeasurable amounts of gravity and will all eventually die out.

May 25, 2018

Dinosaur-killing asteroid also triggered a global warming that lasted 100,000 years

The impact created a heat wave so intense that it melted rocks and set off wildfires that stretched across continents, with the increased temperatures on Earth lasting for thousands of years.

May 25, 2018

Elon Musk's plan to build world's largest virtual solar power grid in Australia gets nod

Elon Musk built the world's largest battery in South Australia last year, and now, work is set to begin in the construction of the world's largest virtual solar power plant.

May 25, 2018

Ireland: Video clip shows two bright UFOs over St Patrick Cathedral

Dublin is slowly emerging as a UFO hotspot. In the past two decades, there have been 19 recorded UFO sightings in the Irish capital.

May 24, 2018

Pluto, Solar System's dwarf planet could in fact be a giant comet

Dwarf planet Pluto might actually be a giant comet made of billions of comets and other rocks from the Kuiper belt as scientists find the composition of Pluto similar to that of comets.

May 24, 2018

After Loch Ness, another Bigfoot shot dead in Montana? DNA test on to find out

The monster had an overwhelming size and long fur of the creature, which is something unusual for a canine

May 24, 2018