Science &amp; Technology

CANADA: Director of the Buckingham Centre for Astrobiology, Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe and his colleague Dr. Max Wallis from the University...

New Horizons spacecraft in “great shape” for Pluto flyby, engineers

NEW YORK: Engineers say the New Horizons spacecraft is in "great shape" for its historic flyby of Pluto Engineers say...

40% iOS users adopt Apple’s iOS 8.4 after week of its introduction

NEW YORK: After a week of its introduction, Apple’s iOS 8.4 has already been adopted by 40 percent of all...

Microsoft to introduce six Lumia Handsets soon

NEW DELHI: We already have this bit of information that two Lumia high-end smartphones are going to launch in the...

Hubble capturers a little known galaxy like Milky Way

LONDON: A stunning image by the powerful Hubble space telescope has captured a little-known galaxy, which looks very much like...

Underwater volcanoes discovered off eastern Australia

SYNEY: A range of underwater volcanoes has been discovered off eastern Australia.The cluster of four cones, about 155 miles (250km)...

First clear images of Pluto

FRANCE: It's been a long journey — nine and a half years, and just over 4.7 billion kilometres — to...

NASA released a new interactive map of the red planet

MEXICO: NASA has launched a new website that lets you explore Mars through interactive map made up of images and...

Bumblebee populations are dying due to rising temperature

HONG KONG: Bumblebee populations are dying at an alarming rate and nobody knows why.Fingers have been pointed at pesticides called...

Bright spots as a pyramid-like peak jutting out of the frigid world’s surface: NASA

LONDON: The closer we get to Ceres, the more perplexing the dwarf planet grows. NASA's Dawn spacecraft has found several...

Extra heat from greenhouse gases trapped in the Indian & Pacific oceans

LONDON: A new research by NASA has revealed that extra heat from greenhouse gases were trapped in the Indian and...

Philae’s comet may host alien ‘life’, astronomers

WASHINGTON: Astronomers proposed a novel explanation on Monday for the strange appearance of the comet carrying Europe's robot probe Philae...

New Horizons space craft gets closer to pluto

LONDON: The New Horizons space craft is getting closer to Pluto and pictures it's sending back keep getting better. The...

Astronomers discovered black hole that effects the growth of galaxy

WASHINGTON: A monster black hole has just been discovered. According to a study published in the journal Science, astronomers have...

Astronomers prepare to witness high-energy cosmic fireworks set to occur in early 2018

LONDON: Astronomers now prepare to witness high-energy cosmic fireworks set to occur in early 2018 when a city-sized stellar remnant...

Volcanic eruptions as a possible reason why global warming has slowed down, researchers

WASHINGTON: Levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have consistently risen over the last 10 years, but global surface temperatures...

Seabird populations declined 70% since 1950, researchers

HONG KONG: A new study has found that seabird population has dropped by about 70 percent since the 1950s, based...

Astronomers discover a rare system of five stars

HONG KONG: A rare system of five stars orbiting a common center of mass was recently discovered by astronomers. According...

South getting its first big wind farm soon

MEXICO: On a vast tract of old North Carolina farmland, crews are getting ready to build something the U.S. South...

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