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  ISRO to design ventilators, make hand sanitisers amid coronavirus pandemic

  March 29, 2020 14:48 IST

  Designing simple to operate ventilators, manufacturing of sanitisers, oxygen canisters and masks while putting on hold manufacture of rockets is what Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), part of ISRO, is doing to meet the emergency needs of the people and owing to lockdown, said top official.

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  Infants born to mothers with COVID-19 may catch infection: Study

  March 27, 2020 19:18 IST

  Researchers have assessed 33 infants born to mothers with COVID-19, including three who were likely born with the disease, a finding that may lead to early diagnosis and better treatment for the youngest population at risk of infection.

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  Coronavirus found in pangolins smuggled into China

  March 27, 2020 16:46 IST

  Pangolins that were smuggled into China carry coronaviruses that are closely related to the one behind the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study which sheds more light on the origins of the deadly virus.

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  Scientists in 2007 warned China was a 'time bomb' for COVID-19

  March 23, 2020 16:26 IST

  As the world battles growing new coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic that has killed over 14,500 people, a study that appeared 12 years back then claimed that the situation in China was a "time bomb" for a dangerous virus outbreak.

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  Coronavirus: 70 drugs, used for treating other ailments may be effective against COVID-19

  March 23, 2020 12:54 IST

  A combination of 70 drugs, used for treating other ailments can be used for treating coronavirus, researchers have said. In the new study, the scientists have also investigated 26 of the coronavirus’ 29 genes, which direct production of the viral proteins.

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  Scientists describe how and where to allocate stockpiled ventilators during a pandemic

  March 22, 2020 15:13 IST

  Researchers have described the key factors to be taken into account for the allocation of scarce ventilators during a pandemic like the currently spreading COVID-19 disease which causes severe respiratory illness.

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  COVID-19 Pandemic: Novel coronavirus stays for a day on cardboard & 3 days on plastic, says Study

  March 22, 2020 12:43 IST

  The novel coronavirus, responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, can stay for up to 24 hours on cardboard, and up to two to three days on plastic, according to a study which says even people who do not yet show symptoms of the disease can spread the infection to others.

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  4 potential treatments that can save world from Coronavirus

  March 22, 2020 11:08 IST

  The world is warped under the deadly coronavirus and till now we have nothing substantial to cure or prevent the people from this novel. Researchers are hard at work developing potential treatments or vaccines for the virus.

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  COVID-19 testing kits to be developed using RNA imaging

  March 20, 2020 13:19 IST

  Amid the novel coronavirus pandemic crisis, Canadian researchers will use a pioneering imaging technology -- called Mango, for its bright colour -- to develop coronavirus testing kits, says a new study.

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  NASA's 2024 moon mission delayed due to Coronavirus outbreak

  March 20, 2020 11:28 IST

  NASA's ambitious 2024 return-to-moon mission has been delayed due to the global coronavirus outbreak. According to a Reuters report, NASA's Administrator Jim Bridenstine said the National Aeronautics Space Agency (NASA) was shutting down the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans and the Stennis Space Center in nearby Hancock County, Mississippi, due to a rise in coronavirus cases in the region. NASA chief on Thursday ordered the temporary closure of two rocket production facilities after an employee tested positive for the respiratory illness, Reuters reported. 

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  COVID-19: Is Novel coronavirus a bioweapon made in lab? Here's what this study says

  March 18, 2020 13:58 IST

  Coronavirus outbreak: study said the sequence data has shown that Chinese authorities rapidly detected the epidemic, and that the number of COVID-19 cases have been increasing because of human to human transmission after a single introduction into the human population.

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  NASA picks proposals to study cosmic explosions

  March 17, 2020 17:19 IST

  NASA has selected proposals for four missions that would study cosmic explosions and the debris they leave behind, as well as monitor how nearby stellar flares may affect the atmospheres of orbiting planets.

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  Clinical trial of coronavirus vaccine on humans begins

  March 16, 2020 23:46 IST

  The global fight against coronavirus has been given a boost by the scientific labs of United States where the first vaccine which has the potential to treat/cure coronavirus is now being tested on human beings. The first participant in a clinical trial for a vaccine to protect against the new coronavirus received an experimental dose on Monday, according to a government official.

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  Coronavirus may remain in patient's body for 5 weeks after getting contained, says study

  March 13, 2020 15:09 IST

  Coronavirus can stay in a patient's respiratory system who has been infected by the deadly disease, for more than 30 days (5 weeks), according to a new study.

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  Nearly 140 new minor planets found at edge of solar system: Study

  March 12, 2020 16:44 IST

  Astronomers have discovered 139 new trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) -- minor planets located in the far reaches of the solar system.

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  Tests show new coronavirus lives on some surfaces for up to 3 days

  March 12, 2020 6:15 IST

  The new coronavirus can live in the air for several hours and on some surfaces for as long as two to three days, tests by U.S. government and other scientists have found.

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  'Hubble bubble' hypothesis reveals mystery of universe's expansion

  March 11, 2020 9:27 IST

  A hypothesis by a theoretical physicist from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) states that "the earth, solar system, entire Milky Way and the few thousand galaxies closest to us move in a vast “bubble” that is 250 million light years in diameter, where the average density of matter is half as large as for the rest of the universe."

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  COVID-19: Scientists may have discovered a way to prevent coronavirus spread

  March 09, 2020 14:36 IST

  The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) started to spread in late December 2019 at a seafood market in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China. At present, there is also no vaccine or treatment available to curb the coronavirus, and scientists suggest that it is still at least a year and a half away.

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  NASA's space grown lettuce is safe and nutritious as ones on Earth

  March 08, 2020 10:41 IST

  Researchers have found that the salad crop, red romaine lettuce, grown on board the International Space Station (ISS), is as nutritious as counterparts grown on the Earth, an advance that may help astronauts grow safe, fresh food during space missions.

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  Women's Day 2020: Top 5 female scientists who changed the world

  March 08, 2020 9:19 IST

  It is not surprising that, like most professions in India, the field of science is very much male-dominated. However, several women, over the years, have made immense contributions to science, and have also inspired others to follow.  

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  Asteroid alert! Giant orb set to make a pass by earth

  March 07, 2020 14:40 IST

  As the whole world buckled under the strain of Coronavirus, an asteroid up to 2.5 miles wide is set to pass by the Earth next month, though it'll miss by a wide margin of about 4 million miles.   

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  Inter-gender hand transplant patient's limb colour soon changes to match hers

  March 07, 2020 10:07 IST

  In a first, A hand transplant patient's new hands ended up turning the same colour as the rest of her skin. The doctors stated that this is the first case of the intriguing health phenomenon. 

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  ISS astronauts grow Earth-like fresh lettuce in space

  March 07, 2020 9:39 IST

  The astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have managed to successfully cultivate salad crop -- red romaine lettuce -- that is free of disease-causing microbes and safe to eat and is at least as nutritious as Earth-grown plants. 

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  International Space Station astronauts grow Earth-like fresh lettuce in space

  March 06, 2020 20:55 IST

  The astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have managed to successfully cultivate salad crop -- red romaine lettuce -- that is free of disease-causing microbes and safe to eat, and is at least as nutritious as Earth-grown plants.

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  Scientists observe half billion-year-old 'social network' in early animals

  March 06, 2020 18:15 IST

  Some of the first animals on the Earth were connected by networks of thread-like filaments which may have been used for nutrition, communication or reproduction, the earliest evidence yet found of life being connected in this way, according to a study.

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  NASA's Curiosity Rover captures high-resolution images of Mars

  March 06, 2020 11:02 IST

  The rover's Mast Camera, or Mastcam, relied on its medium-angle lens to also produce a lower-resolution, nearly 650-million-pixel panorama that includes the rover's deck and robotic arm.

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  NASA's next Mars rover officially named 'Perseverance'

  March 06, 2020 8:09 IST

  Perseverance is the latest in a long line of Red Planet rovers to be named by school-age children, from Sojourner in 1997 to the Spirit and Opportunity rovers, which landed on Mars in 2004, to Curiosity, which has been exploring Mars since 2012.

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  Low carb diet may prevent, reverse age-related effects in brain: Study

  March 05, 2020 16:47 IST

  Minimising the consumption of carbohydrates may prevent and reverse age-related effects within the brain, according to a study.