Science News
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Scientists discover massive newborn planet close to Earth
Science | Feb 12, 2020, 02:20 PM ISTThe planet orbits its sun at 600 times the distance of the Earth to the Sun. How this young, giant planet could have ended up so far away from its young "parent" star is a mystery.
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Researchers find novel device to detect harmful bacteria in food sample
Science | Feb 05, 2020, 01:19 PM ISTTo test the device, the researchers artificially contaminated ground beef with E. coli, and then used their device to analyse the sample within 10 hours of inoculation. They rinsed and incubated the beef with an enrichment liquid containing a modified phage -- a virus that infects bacteria.
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How Uranus and Neptune are different, researchers reveal
Science | Feb 05, 2020, 12:38 PM ISTFor the first time, the team of scientists at the University of Zurich investigated a range of different collisions on both planets using high-resolution computer simulations.
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Researchers invent telecommunication system to provide early warning on natural disasters
Science | Feb 05, 2020, 10:19 AM ISTAmateur drones can last for around 30 minutes when flying over a large area but Duong's system will last three to five times longer than this and is not as expensive as a professional drone.
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Tiny particles in universe saved us from complete annihilation. Researchers show how
Science | Feb 04, 2020, 08:14 AM ISTAccording to the Big Bang theory of modern cosmology, the matter was created with an equal amount of antimatter. If it had stayed that way, matter and antimatter should have eventually met and annihilated one to one, leading up to complete annihilation.
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Spitzer -- one of NASA's four great observatories set to retire on January 30
Science | Jan 29, 2020, 01:23 PM ISTThe Tarantula Nebula was one of the first targets studied by Spitzer after it was launched in 2003. In 2019, scientists used Spitzer to study 1987A to monitor the changing brightness of the expanding shockwave and debris to learn more about how these explosions change their surrounding environment.
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3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy's voice recreated by researchers
Science | Jan 24, 2020, 11:41 AM ISTThe scientists used an X-ray device called a computed tomography (CT) scan to perform a detailed analysis of Nesyamun’s intact mouth and throat. They then recreated the mummy's voice box, or larynx, using 3D printing -- a process which builds a three-dimensional object from a computer-aided design model, usually by adding material layer by layer.
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Research advances in understanding brightest explosions in Universe
Science | Jan 24, 2020, 10:23 AM ISTSuperluminous supernovae are the brightest explosions in the cosmos. Over a few months, they radiate as much energy as the Sun does over its entire lifetime, reaching a peak brightness exceeding that of an entire galaxy. The origin of this energy, and what kind of stellar progenitor system has exploded, are still unclear.
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Inner complexity in Saturn moon 'Enceladus' hints at habitable conditions
Science | Jan 23, 2020, 10:41 AM ISTThe likely presence of hydrothermal vents inside Enceladus could be seen as another phenomenon that contributes to this. At Earth's ocean floor, hydrothermal vents emit hot, energy-rich, mineral-laden fluids that allow unique ecosystems teeming with unusual creatures to thrive.
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New origami-like structures can support 14,000 times their weight
Science | Jan 22, 2020, 01:15 PM ISTAccording to the study, the tilted, triangular design was the strongest when the flaps were undamaged and untapped. The researchers said these structures were also stronger than the same design with vertical walls.
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope spots bright galaxy located 200 million light-years away
Science | Jan 22, 2020, 11:03 AM ISTNGC 1803 was discovered in 1834 by astronomer John Herschel, NASA said. Herschel is a big name in astronomy; John, his father William and his aunt Caroline all made huge contributions to the field, and their legacies remain today.
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Earth's oldest crater from space rock impact revealed
Science | Jan 22, 2020, 10:50 AM ISTBased on impact simulations, the scientists said if the Yarrabubba-forming meteorite collided into a continental ice sheet -- like modern day Antarctica -- it may have released between 87 trillion and 5,000 trillion kilograms of water vapour into the atmosphere instantaneously.
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NASA Mars rover will soon get its name. Semifinalists in 'Name the Rover' contest shortlisted
Science | Jan 15, 2020, 02:23 PM ISTThe nine finalists will talk with a panel of experts, including Glaze, NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins, NASA JPL rover driver Nick Wiltsie and Clara Ma, who proposed the name for the Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity, as a sixth-grade student in 2009. The grand prize winner will be announced in early March 2020.
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Scientists identify stardust - oldest material on Earth, contained inside meteorite
Science | Jan 14, 2020, 12:29 PM ISTAccording to the information, the town of Murchison in Victoria state witnessed oldest of 40 tiny dust grains, that were trapped inside the meteorite fragments about 7 billion years ago, about 2.5 billion years before the sun, Earth and rest of our solar system formed.
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New machine can keep livers alive outside body for one week
Science | Jan 14, 2020, 11:03 AM ISTWith the study, the scientists showed that six of ten perfused poor-quality human livers, declined for transplantation by all centres in Europe, recovered to full function within one week of application of the machine.
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'Trash talk' hurts even more when it comes from a robot: Study
Science | Nov 19, 2019, 03:43 PM ISTDiscouraging words such as "I have to say you are a terrible player" can be disturbing for people even when uttered by a robot, according to a study presented here.
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'Big Surprise': Astronomers spot asteroid changing colour for the first time, scientists baffled
Sep 01, 2019, 08:29 AM ISTAstronomers have witnessed an asteroid changing its colour in a never-seen-before event. Asteroid 6478 Gault, sporting a comet-like dust trail, was seen changing its colour from red to blue...leaving scientists astonished, baffled and what not. This has happened for the first time.
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New NASA missions to study Sun, its effects on space weather
Jun 21, 2019, 05:37 PM ISTNASA will launch two new missions to advance our understanding of the Sun and its dynamic effects on space weather, the US space agency said.
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Researchers build AI system to connect vision, touch
Jun 17, 2019, 04:26 PM ISTA team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have come up with a predictive Artificial Intelligence (AI) that can learn to see by touching and to feel by seeing.
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India successfully conducts maiden flight test of unmanned scramjet demonstration aircraft
Jun 12, 2019, 04:11 PM ISTIndia successfully conducted the maiden flight test of the indigenously-developed Hypersonic Technology Demonstrator Vehicle (HSTDV) from a base off the Odisha coast on Wednesday.