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  IIT Kharagpur scientists develop ‘wearable technology’ from silk.

  Lifestyle | June 15, 2017 11:19 IST

  A team of scientists from IIT Kharagpur devised a wearable technology from silk protein fibroin.

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  Super-Earth: Scientists discover planet that could contain liquid water, harbour life

  World | April 20, 2017 12:43 IST

  An international team of astronomers has discovered a so-called "super-Earth" that could contain liquid water, a situation that would make it a very good candidate for harbouring life.

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  Scientists develop high quality graphene with soybean

  World | February 17, 2017 17:33 IST

  A team of scientists has developed the world’s strongest and high quality material graphene using soybean. Graphene is a carbon material that is one atom thick. Its thin composition and high conductivity means it is

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  In a first, world's smallest pacemaker implanted successfully in US

  Lifestyle | February 05, 2017 16:32 IST

  The world's smallest pacemaker that is as a large vitamin capsule was successfully implanted for the first time in a patient in the US to restore the heart's normal rhythm, scientists say. The pacemaker is

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  Scientists discover long-lost ancient continent under Indian Ocean in Mauritius

  World | February 02, 2017 21:01 IST

  Scientists have discovered a lost gigantic continent called Mauritia hidden beneath the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius. The piece of crust, which was subsequently covered by young lava during volcanic eruptions on the island, seems

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  Scientists discover 100-million-year-old 'ET-like' insect species

  World | January 26, 2017 19:38 IST

  A 100-million-year-old insect species with a triangular head has been discovered by a team of scientists at the Oregon State University. The features of the insect are so unusual that it has been placed in

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  Scientists pinpoint the exact age of Moon and it’s older than we thought

  World | January 13, 2017 18:09 IST

  Scientists have claimed that our closest neighbour Moon is 4.51 billion years old, and was born just 60 million years after the solar system first formed. The revelation has come through a new study

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  Now, a mind-reading robotic hand that will help the injured perform daily tasks

  December 07, 2016 17:14 IST

  In a major scientific advancement, researchers have developed a mind-controlled mechanical hand that permits individuals with specific sorts of spinal injuries to perform regular tasks. The low-cost device was tested in Spain on six people

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  Honey best cure to treat oral cancer wounds, claim IIT Kharagpur scientists

  Lifestyle | November 30, 2016 10:35 IST

  An inter-disciplinary research group comprising chemical engineers, bio-technologists and doctors at IIT Kharagpur have developed a therapeutic patch which is made of silk and embedded with honey.

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  Fire in Space! NASA scientists ignite second space fire experiment on cargo spaceship

  World | November 22, 2016 13:45 IST

  In an attempt to better understand how fire behaves in microgravity to ensure better safety for astronauts, NASA scientists will soon ignite nine different materials aboard an unmanned spaceship on its way to a

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  Scientists discover oldest evidence of life on land, dates back 3.2 billion years

  World | November 09, 2016 19:03 IST

  A recent study by scientists in Germany have found the oldest evidence of life on land suggesting that life took birth on land as early as 3.2 billion years ago. The research led by Sami

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  Scientists discover a new type of atomic bond

  India | November 07, 2016 18:46 IST

  For the first time, scientists have observed a weak atomic bond – in which an electron can grab and trap an atom – that was theorised 14 years ago. Researchers at Purdue University in the

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  Indian scientists find crack in Earth's magnetic shield. Know how it will impact us?

  World | November 04, 2016 12:36 IST

  The world’s largest and most sensitive cosmic ray monitor, located in India, has recorded a burst of galactic cosmic rays that indicates a crack in the Earth’s magnetic shield, which protects us from harmful radiation,

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  China’s ‘Little Bee’ searches for strongest blasts in universe

  World | October 27, 2016 17:24 IST

  In endeavours to hunt down gamma-beam blasts, a square-shaped probe, dubbed "Little Bee" by Chinese scientists is currently searching for strongest explosion in the universe. The formal name of the probe, placed on Tiangong-2, is

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  Scientists discover oldest known planetary disk

  World | October 22, 2016 16:17 IST

  A 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 | October 19, 2016 19:14 IST

  Offering 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 | October 10, 2016 13:55 IST

  Authorities 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 | October 09, 2016 17:10 IST

  The 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 | October 09, 2016 13:59 IST

  Scientists 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 | October 04, 2016 16:45 IST

  David 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