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  Scientists discover massive newborn planet close to Earth

  Science | February 12, 2020 14:20 IST

  The 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 | February 05, 2020 13:19 IST

  To 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 | February 05, 2020 12:38 IST

  For 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 | February 05, 2020 10:19 IST

  Amateur 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 | February 04, 2020 8:14 IST

  According 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 | January 29, 2020 13:23 IST

  The 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 | January 24, 2020 11:41 IST

  The 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 | January 24, 2020 10:23 IST

  Superluminous 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 | January 23, 2020 10:41 IST

  The 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 | January 22, 2020 13:15 IST

  According 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 | January 22, 2020 11:03 IST

  NGC 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 | January 22, 2020 10:50 IST

  Based 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 | January 15, 2020 14:23 IST

  The 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 | January 14, 2020 12:29 IST

  According 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 | January 14, 2020 11:03 IST

  With 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 | November 19, 2019 15:43 IST

  Discouraging 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

  September 01, 2019 8:29 IST

  ​Astronomers 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

  June 21, 2019 17:37 IST

  NASA 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

  June 17, 2019 16:26 IST

  A 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

  June 12, 2019 16:11 IST

  India successfully conducted the maiden flight test of the indigenously-developed Hypersonic Technology Demonstrator Vehicle (HSTDV) from a base off the Odisha coast on Wednesday.