Science

WASHINGTON: NASA unveils the much awaited images of Pluto taken by the New Horizons spacecraft during the July 14 historic...

LONDON: Scientists have determined how a cold-tolerant fungus can stimulate the growth of thin strands of ice that sprout from...

WASHINGTON: Trivandrum: Six new spider species have been discovered in Kerala as a result of research conducted by Biodiversity Research...

LONDON: After a successful mission to Pluto last week, scientists are preparing to launch a probe to search for life...

PERTH: Scientists have discovered a 113 million-year-old fossil of a snake which has four legs with fingers and toes. The...

FRANCE: According to NASA experts, windbots or Wind-Powered Robots, may be useful to explore Jupiter and other planets, in the...

NEW YORK: The total mass of the atmosphere on Pluto appears to have fallen by half in just two years,...

HONG KONG: The mystery around the disappearance of some of Earth’s largest animals – “megafauna” like mammoths, giant sloths, and...

LONDON: Radiocarbon dating which is used to estimate the age of every particular thing on earth is facing big threat...

MEXICO: 90 percent of teens are sleep deprived and the health costs could be significant.Sleep loss can take a devastating...

LONDON: In a breakthrough discovery, the Kepler telescope has claimed the existence of nearly a billion Earths in our galaxy....

BEIJING: Chinese scientists are planning to launch a retrievable scientific research satellite in the first half of 2016. The satellite...

LONDON: Data obtained using the European Southern Observatory's Alma telescope in Chile has given astronomers their first glimpse at the...

NEW YORK: New footage relayed by the primary spacecraft to go to distant Pluto present odd polygon-shaped options and clean...

LONDON: NASA’s New Horizons mission has made surprising new discovery, and found haze and flowing ice on Pluto. John Grunsfeld,...

LONDON: Astronomers have used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to show that multiple eruptions from a super massive black hole over...

NEW DELHI: NASA has released another image of Pluto using colour data to highlight the composition of the dwarf planet....

LONDON: A novel way of making 3D nanostructures from DNA is described in a study published in the renowned journal...

SYDNEY: Astronomers have used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to show that multiple eruptions from a supermassive black hole over 50...

MEXICO: The first known fossil of a four-legged snake has been discovered by a scientist on a routine field trip...