Science & Health

ISRO's PSLV-C34 launches 20 satellites at one go

How India plans to break Russia's record by launching 104 satellites at one go; NASA had sent 29

India's ISRO is planning to send 104 satellites into the orbit at one go and break the record set by Russia.

Jan 30, 2017

Can burnt toast give you cancer?

A harmful chemical compound called acrylamide (C3H5NO), known to be cancerous, is formed when starch gets burnt.

Jan 30, 2017

Presence of methane and water discovered on exoplanet GJ 1132b, and you know what that means...cows!

Exoplanet GJ 1132b orbits an M-Class Red Dwarf star, which are common in in the Milky Way galaxy. This oven-hot exoplanet is 1.2 times the size of Earth and has a diameter 50% larger.

Jan 30, 2017

Alien planets orbiting too close to their stars could find their moons going rogue!

More than 3,400 alien worlds have been discovered by researchers outside our solar system over two decades.

Jan 30, 2017

Declassified CIA documents reveal 6 UFO sightings in India, Nepal and Bhutan

CIA had earlier declassified over 930,000 documents and made them available online.

Jan 29, 2017

Human civilisation can thrive on Mars within a century, says Japanese astronaut Naoko Yamazaki

Naoko Yamazaki, the second Japanese woman astronaut, speaks about space progress and human civilisation taking place in space.

Jan 28, 2017

UFO Sighting: Mysterious flying objects spotted along US-Mexico border [VIDEO]

A fleet of seven to eight UFOs was flying right over the border control post at Tijuana, a border city in Mexico just south of California.

Jan 28, 2017

Giant exoplanets may grow even larger with time, researchers reveal!

Hot Jupiters are exoplanets that orbit their parent star at a distance far closer than Mercury does with our Sun. Their size is comparable to the gas giants (Jupiter and Saturn) in our solar system.

Jan 28, 2017

Tamil Nadu: Fake anti-vaccination messages circulated widely on WhatsApp and Facebook, fuelling fears that polio might return

The messages seem to be based on a study that has been disproved and its author barred from practising medicine in the United Kingdom.

Jan 28, 2017

Nibiru Apocalypse Now! Earth will be destroyed this October, claims conspiracy theorist

As per the belief of conspiracy theorists, hundreds of years ago, the orbits of other planets have been destroyed by Nibiru's gravitational impact.

Jan 27, 2017

Miracle Medicine: This woman lived without her lungs for 6 days!

Melissa Benoit, a young mother aged 32, hailing from Canada underwent a unique procedure, which was never carried out before.

Jan 27, 2017

NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, Universe expansion

New findings reveal that the universe is expanding surprisingly faster than we thought!

The new expansion rate of the universe is found to be 71.9 kilometers (44.7 miles) per second per megaparsec (1 megaparsec = 3.26 million light-years).

Jan 27, 2017

Video diagram shows strong gravitational lensing effect

Gravitational lensing is when objects with large masses such as galaxies or clusters of galaxies warp the spacetime surrounding them in such a way that they can create multiple images of background objects.

Jan 26, 2017

'Rogue NASA' Twitter account is fighting against US President Donald Trump's climate change policies, but who's behind it?

The account has been tweeting science and climate change facts, and has garnered a significant following since then.

Jan 26, 2017

DNA, RNA, Genetic code, Base pairs, genome, cells

Scientists create first stable semisynthetic lifeform, but warn that complex organism is a long way off

Scientists realized that in order to create a truly synthetic life form, it would have to hold on to the UBP for its entire lifespan

Jan 26, 2017

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Science & Health

How India plans to break Russia's record by launching 104 satellites at one go; NASA had sent 29

Can burnt toast give you cancer?

Presence of methane and water discovered on exoplanet GJ 1132b, and you know what that means...cows!

Alien planets orbiting too close to their stars could find their moons going rogue!

Declassified CIA documents reveal 6 UFO sightings in India, Nepal and Bhutan

Human civilisation can thrive on Mars within a century, says Japanese astronaut Naoko Yamazaki

UFO Sighting: Mysterious flying objects spotted along US-Mexico border [VIDEO]

Giant exoplanets may grow even larger with time, researchers reveal!

Tamil Nadu: Fake anti-vaccination messages circulated widely on WhatsApp and Facebook, fuelling fears that polio might return

Nibiru Apocalypse Now! Earth will be destroyed this October, claims conspiracy theorist

Miracle Medicine: This woman lived without her lungs for 6 days!

New findings reveal that the universe is expanding surprisingly faster than we thought!

Video diagram shows strong gravitational lensing effect

'Rogue NASA' Twitter account is fighting against US President Donald Trump's climate change policies, but who's behind it?

Scientists create first stable semisynthetic lifeform, but warn that complex organism is a long way off

Time for India to follow suit? France, Germany, Netherlands, US banned use of EVMs [here's why]

Dhanush's Captain Miller has no buyers in Telugu states? Here's why

Deepika Padukone is a sight to behold in velvet gown; attends Academy Museum Gala with Selena Gomez, Dua Lip [see pics]