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Scientists trying to track the ‘missing’ carbon from Martian atmosphere
WASHINGTON: A team of scientists, trying to track down the 'missing' carbon from the Martian atmosphere, has come up with...
Water bears are the master DNA thieves of animal world
MEXICO: Researchers said the DNA likely gets inside the genome randomly but what remains allows water bears to survive in...
Aalien megastructure near strange star’ may actually be a swarm of comets: NASA
NEW YORK: Unusual light patterns around a distant star, which some took as evidence of an alien megastructure, were more...
Mars to lose its largest moon, but gain a ring
LONDON: The year 2015 is shaping up to be the hottest on record, the UN’s weather agency said Wednesday, a...
Now you can send whatsapp messages in Urdu, Bengali
NEW DELHI: Whenever you think of sending a text, voice, video or photo message, Whatsapp is the first thing that...
OnePlus 2 open sale starts in India
NEW YORK: OnePlus, as promised, has kicked off its open sale for the OnePlus 2 smartphone in India. Interested consumers...
Humans push half of the world’s primates toward extinction, experts
SINGAPORE: More than half the world’s primates, including apes, lemurs and monkeys, are facing extinction, international experts warned Tuesday, as they...
Researchers develop World’s first electronic ‘cyborg’ rose
LONDON: Can you imagine living roses being turned into electronic circuits? A team of researchers at the Laboratory for Organic...
China, India most affected by weather-related disasters
BEIJING: India and China are among the countries most affected by weather-related disasters with the two nations accounting for more...
Need to unlock the mystery of dark matter’s nature on Blue Marble
WASHINGTON: There may be long filaments of dark matter or "hair" on our Earth, suggests new research, adding further study...
Japan rocket launches 1st commercial satellite
TOKYO: A Japanese rocket lifted off with the national space programme's first commercial satellite as Tokyo tries to enter a...
Astronomers capture 1st image of forming planet
WASHINGTON: In a first, astronomers have captured the photo of a planet in making, located in a star 450 light...
Around 690m children at risk from climate change: UNICEF
HONG KONG: Nearly 690 million of the world’s 2.3 billion children live in areas most exposed to climate change, facing...
Butterflies could also be affected by pesticide
LONDON: Controversial nerve agent pesticides have frequently been blamed for declining bird and bee populations. Now butterflies can be added...
Universe has a ‘resolution limit’ that governs how far telescopes can see, scientists
WASHINGTON: Is it possible that those distant galaxies are just too far away to ever be seen clearly? That’s the...
America & China set up emergency space hotline
LONDON: America has set up a hotline with China to make sure an accidental satellite collision doesn't spark a full...
Mars will one day have its own ring and become smaller version of Saturn
CANADA: The Planetary Society has suggested sending humans to Phobos first, before sending them to the surface of the Red...
How Earth’s pacific plates collpased?
HONG KONG: For the first time ever, scientists exploring the ocean floor discovered what happened when a tectonic plate gets...
NASA study suggests carbon content of temperate forests overestimated
MEXICO: Digital measurements of millions of trees indicate that previous studies likely overestimate the amount of carbon stored by temperate...
More than half of Amazon tree species face extinction, study
LONDON: The Amazon has one of the world's most diverse collections of tree species, but findings of a new study...
