Science & Health

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

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

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

FRBs or signals which come from the deep space from sources such as bursts from magnetars, exploding black holes, and of course, highly advanced alien civilizations if there are any.

Aug 2, 2018

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

The WHO guidelines say that swine flu is now in its post-pandemic stage and should be treated like any seasonal flu.

Aug 2, 2018

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

Blue diamonds had to go through hellish heat and pressure, about a thousand km deep below the surface, for hundreds of years before they are spewed to the surface.

Aug 2, 2018

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

Researchers studied coastal mass burial sites at the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu in the Pacific as well as in Orkney and Shetland in the UK.

Aug 2, 2018

All three of humanity's space exploration targets in one image from Earth

The image with the Moon, Mars, and the ISS are seen together was taken near Mount Remarkable National Park, Australia.

Aug 2, 2018

Viagra, anaesthetic found in Ayurvedic potency medicines; know their adverse effects

The containers of two Ayurvedic medicines did not mention the presence of allopathic components – sildenafil citrate, commonly known as Viagra, and lignocaine hydrochloride which is an anaesthetic drug, said the FDA report.

Aug 2, 2018

UV light identified as an important prerequisite for life to evolve on exoplanets

Chemistry required to create the primordial soup which resulted in the development of life on Earth might not have happened without a dosage of UV light.

Aug 1, 2018

China wants to lasso an asteroid and bring down it to Earth, the American Cowboy way

Taking cue from the American Cowboy style, the spacecraft will throw a large bag made of small robots over the asteroid and drag it down to Earth.

Aug 1, 2018