Scientists
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Scientists discover oldest known planetary disk
World | Oct 22, 2016, 04:17 PM ISTA gathering of stargazers believe to have discovered an oldest known planet-shaping disk - a 45-million-year-old ring of gas and tidy that circles around a young star. Circumstellar disks around red dwarfs like this one
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Watch: Nasa's Maven captures ultraviolet pictures of Mars displaying its ‘nightglow’
World | Oct 19, 2016, 07:14 PM ISTOffering a stunning look into the planet's climate, Nasa's Maven mission demonstrated an alternate Mars utilizing the shuttle's infrared camera catching the planet's bright shine. They include the first images of "nightglow" that can be
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WATCH! West Australia to deploy drones to monitor shark activities near its beaches
World | Oct 10, 2016, 01:55 PM ISTAuthorities at West Australian beaches are all set to deploy drones for a three-month trial to help monitor shark activity and potentially spot other dangers such as rips and schools of bait fish, which attract
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Scientists identify skeletal remains as new species of Jurassic marine reptile
World | Oct 09, 2016, 05:10 PM ISTThe fossils collected over a century ago by the Scientists helped in identifying a new species of extinct marine reptiles that lived during the age of dinosaurs. The newly identified species of British Ichthyosaur,
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NASA scientists using 'Martian gardens' to find best veggies to grow on Mars
World | Oct 09, 2016, 01:59 PM ISTScientists are using 'Martian gardens' to find which are the best plants that astronauts could grow during future manned missions. One major challenge for human journey to Mars will be determining how to pack enough
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British trio David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz win 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics
World | Oct 04, 2016, 04:45 PM ISTDavid Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz, all three physicists from the United Kingdom, have won the prestigious Nobel Prize in Physics. The British-born scientists have been selected for work that "revealed the secrets
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ALARMING! Greenland's ice is melting much faster than expected, claim scientists
World | Sep 23, 2016, 10:28 AM ISTGreenland's ice sheet is melting at a much faster rate than previously thought, said scientists this week after discovering a hotspot beneath the Earth's crust that was distorting their calculations. As per a new study,
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MIT scientists develop spectroscopic technique to help NASA’s Mars rover
World | Sep 18, 2016, 05:30 PM ISTIn a move to help NASA’s new Mars rover, a novel spectroscopic technique has been developed by MIT scientists. NASA’s Mars rover, to be launched in 2020, will find signs of present or former
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Two Indian origin scientists wins US award for their latest inventions
India | Sep 14, 2016, 11:50 PM ISTTwo Indian-origin MIT scientists from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have won prestigious award for their extensive inventions. Nasik-born Ramesh Raskar, an imaging scientist and inventor at MIT, has been awarded the $500,000 (Rs.3.3 cro
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These T-shirts will turn body heat into electricity
World | Sep 14, 2016, 11:32 AM ISTScientists have discovered a new light-weight, conductive material which can convert body heat into electricity, and lead to T-shirts or arm bands that generate power for wearable electronics.
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Indian scientists develop method to convert fish-bio waste into green energy
India | Sep 13, 2016, 10:21 AM ISTThe scales of fish has the potential of becoming an instant source of green energy in future. A team of researchers at Jadavpur University in Kolkata has developed a biodegradable energy harvester from raw
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Scientists crack way to prevent cancer recurrence
Lifestyle | Sep 04, 2016, 12:03 AM ISTNow the majority of dormant cancer cells will be destroyed with the combination of immunotherapy and chemotherapy that may help prevent cancer recurrence, says scientists. Researchers found that chemotherapy alone leads to two types
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These six scientists end year-long Mars mission
World | Aug 29, 2016, 10:36 AM ISTSix scientists who lived like astronauts in an isolated dome for 12 months in Hawaii to explore challenges which a manned mission may face on Mars, have completed one of the toughest NASA-funded mission ever.
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In a first, scientists decode dog's mind in real time
World | Aug 24, 2016, 04:40 PM ISTUnderstanding an animal’s mind has always been a difficult task, until now. In a first of its kind research, a team of scientists making use of a new technique has made it possible to see
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Scientists develop 'mini human brains' to fight Parkinson's disease
World | Aug 01, 2016, 12:43 PM ISTIn what signals a big leap in the quest for treatment, research and study into the Parkinson’s disease, scientists have now developed “mini-brains” which they claim will also help them find cures and conduct studies
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Scientists dub cockroach milk as the ‘super-food’ of future. Dare to drink?
World | Jul 26, 2016, 10:37 PM ISTCall it bizarre, but an international team of scientists have entitled cockroach milk as the 'super-food' of the coming time. It was after examining all the details that the scientists have made this claim. What
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Renewing history! Scientists locate unknown ancestor of man in Andaman
India | Jul 26, 2016, 04:40 PM ISTIn a discovery that could potentially challenge the history of human evolution, an Indo-Spanish team of researchers caught hold of a centuries old, but still unknown descendant of a new family of early men in
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Meet Graham, the humanoid that shows what humans would look like if they evolved to survive car crashes
Life | Jul 27, 2016, 07:14 PM ISTWouldn’t it be fantastic if no one ever suffered even minor injuries in everyday car crashes? Scientists have revealed that this may be possible, although you may need to compromise your looks. Researchers in Australia
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For the first time in history, scientists sequence genes of 6000 year old barley seeds
World | Jul 28, 2016, 04:33 PM ISTJerusalem: Researchers have studied the DNA of 6000 years old barley seeds, making these the oldest plant genome to be reorganized to date. The 6,000-year-old Chalcolithic barley grains was found in Yoram cave Israel, near
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Earliest sign of Alzheimer's discovered, reveal scientists
Lifestyle | Jul 14, 2016, 07:50 AM ISTNew Delhi: Scientists have found out the first physiological sign of Alzheimer's disease. It is a decrease in blood flow to the brain which is indicated as the earliest sign of the disease, according to