Science & Health

UAE plans to bring giant icebergs from Antartica to tap water

A UAE-based company is planning to tow icebergs from Antarctica for drinking water. Read to know how it is going to happen.

May 3, 2017

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Oil massage can be fatal for you, AIIMS doctors reveal

Massages have been known to act as a pain reliever, but if it's not done properly it can turn out to be fatal and cause death.

May 2, 2017

NASA contributes ShadowCam to Korea for its first lunar exploration mission

The ShadowCam is scheduled to be launched in 2018 and it will analyse the PSRs on a monthly basis to shed light on the seasonal changes.

May 2, 2017

Beer may be a better painkiller than Paracetamol. Wait, what!?

Can beer relieve pain better than painkillers? Well, researchers from the University of Greenwich, London, UK seem to believe that. Read on to find out how and why?

May 2, 2017

NASA's Cassini discovers 'The Big Empty' between Saturn and its rings

There are 21 more dives that the spacecraft is yet to make, and out of them four will be through the inner most Saturn rings, during which using the antenna as a shield would be important.

May 2, 2017

Watch: India unveils ambitious plan to have only electric cars by 2030

Union power minister Piyush Goyal has unveiled an ambitious plan that sees India using only electric vehicles by 2030. Read to know how he is working to make this a reality.

Apr 30, 2017

Dr Jagdish Chaturvedi, medical devices, health

This doctor-cum-stand-up comedian invented low-cost medical devices for aiding people in rural India

Apart from being a doctor and inventor of numerous medical devices, Dr Jagdish Chaturvedi has many other feathers in his cap. He is a stand-up comedian as well as an author.

Apr 29, 2017

Thousands unite against Trumps environmental policies at Peoples Climate March

On the 100th day of US President Donald Trumps presidency, thousands of protesters attended the Peoples Climate March in Washington to speak out against Trumps environmental policies.Trumps administration already reversed many Obama policies aimed at tackling climate change. Trump also threatened to pull out of the Paris Agreement.

Apr 29, 2017

Madeleine McCann 10 years on: The story that shocked the world

Three-year-old Madeleine McCann went missing on 3 May 2007, when her parents left her in their holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal, to go for dinner. In the 10 years since she went missing, many theories about her disappearance have arisen. Initially, parents Kate and Gerry McCann became key suspects in the case but their suspect status was later dropped.

Apr 29, 2017