Science

NEW YORK: NASA’s Dawn spacecraft captured the most detailed images of the dwarf planet Ceres. The images were captured by...

PARIS: With its distended skull, elongated body and talon-like feet, it looks like something straight out of the sci-fi film...

WASHINGTON: A rare combination of celestial events will grace the night sky later this month. NASA says a supermoon lunar...

VERIA: A team of Australian archaeologists has unearthed 3,000-years old pottery in a remote location in the rugged highlands of...

HONG KONG: Three species of a fish found in streams in Wet Tropics rainforests are now listed as vulnerable, with...

PARIS: A Russian Soyuz FG rocket launched the Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft 10:37 a.m. local time, Sept. 2, on the latest...

EUROPE: “There is no spoon,” NASA wrote on its Curiosity Mars Rover page on Facebook. The odd statement had nothing...

WASHINGTON: It was a creature that one scientist said resembled “a strange, gluttonous lizard that swallowed a small Frisbee. ”But...

CANADA: US chip colossus Intel on Thursday said that it will put $50 million (roughly Rs. 331 crores) and engineering...

HONG KONG: The Great Barrier Reef is under attack from hungry hordes of Crown-of-Thorns starfish, but Australia has an answer:...

MEXICO: The team, directed by Prof Juan Luis Arsuaga of the Complutense University of Madrid, studied the body size and...

LONDON: Scientists have developed a simple ‘soak and heating’ process which treats waste coffee grounds to enable them to store...

EUROPE: The US Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has just approved the construction of the world’s largest and...

BRENT: An astonishing total lunar eclipse is expected to take place on September 27, as the Moon passes directly behind...

WASHINGTON: The Earth's first mass extinction event 540 million years ago was caused not by a meteorite impact or volcanic...

SYDNEY: Crown-of-thorns starfish are one of the greatest threats to Australia's Great Barrier Reef, and a team of researchers have...

WASHINGTON: More than 3 trillion trees exist on Earth - roughly 422 per person - but the total number of...

LONDON: The fossilized remains of a new species of ancient river dolphin that lived at least 5.8 million years ago...

NEW YORK: A NASA satellite launched seven months ago has lost use of one of two science instruments, but the...

LONDON: Scientists have developed a simple 'soak and heating' process which treats waste coffee grounds to enable them to store...