A best-seller author, Stephen Hawking, was 76 years old when he left us all. He was suffering from ALS (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), a progressive neuro-degenerative disease since the age of 21.
Washington: The first person on Mars is ‘likely to be a woman’, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has said. “It’s likely to be a woman, the first next person on the Moon. It’s also true that the first person on Mars is likely to be a woman,” CNN cited Bridenstine as[Read More…]
Mumbai: Distinguished physicist and scientist Ajit Kumar Mohanty was appointed the new Director of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) on Tuesday. Mohanty, 60, who is Director of Physics Group at the BARC, took over his new assignment from K.N. Vyas, Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission, and Secretary, Department of[Read More…]
London: A novel gene therapy uses an implanted LED device to reset a racing heart immediately and automatically, paving the way for pain-free treatment for patients with heart rhythm disorder. The therapy detects fast arrhythmias in the atrium of a rat’s heart and sends a signal to a LED device[Read More…]
Washington: After much delays, NASA has given the green light to Elon Musk-owned SpaceX’s Crew Dragon to launch its first unmanned test flight to the International Space Station (ISS) on March 2, the US space agency said. The flight, called Demonstration Mission-1 or DM-1, will be launched at 2.48 a.m.[Read More…]
New York: Scientists have synthesised a molecular system that, like DNA, can store and transmit information, suggesting there could be an alternative genetic system for life that may be possible on other worlds. The team, led by Steven Benner at the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution in Alachua, Florida, successfully[Read More…]
Washington: A team of researchers spotted the world’s giant bee which is as big as a human thumb, in Indonesia for the first time since 1981, the media reported on Friday. The team — natural history photographer Clay Bolt, entomologist Eli Wyman, behavioural ecologist Simon Robson and ornithologist Glenn Chilton[Read More…]
Washington: NASA scientists have simulated a chemical process through which ingredients for water could be made on the surface of the Moon making it a chemical factory, an advance that could aid in the goal of sending humans to establish a permanent presence there. The team from the US space[Read More…]
‘Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology’, named in his honor, is awarded to outstanding scientists
Washington: A citizen scientist working for NASA has found the oldest and coldest known white dwarf – an Earth-sized remnant of a Sun-like star that has died – ringed by dust and debris. Astronomers suspect this could be the first known white dwarf with multiple dust rings. The star, LSPM[Read More…]
New York: Researchers, including one of Indian origin, have developed a new drug that can delay ageing demonstrated by declining muscle mass, strength and function. As human bodies age, they increasingly lose the ability to repair and rebuild degenerating skeletal muscles. This can dramatically limit the ability of older adults[Read More…]
Los Angeles: Designed to last just 90 days and travel 1,000 metres on Martian landscape, NASA’s Opportunity rover outlived its mission lifetime by more than 14 years to become the longest lasting robot sent from Earth and the first wheeled vehicle off Earth to log a drive distance of over[Read More…]
According to the CDC, in 24 states of the US and two Canadian provinces, the disease was reported.
Sydney, The Milky Way’s disk of stars is not stable or flat but instead becomes increasingly “warped” and twisted far away from the galaxy’s centre, according to astronomers. “We usually think of spiral galaxies as being quite flat, like Andromeda which you can easily see through a telescope,” said Professor[Read More…]
New York, Owing to climate change surface of the oceans will change colour by end of 21st century leading our blue planet to look visibly altered, finds a new study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The findings showed that climate change has been significantly affecting phytoplankton — the[Read More…]
16 years back on this day, India lost one of its most talented children when US Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated on its way back to the earth. India born Kalpana Chawla along with six other crew members lost her life. Kalpana Chawla continues to inspire millions of people with her[Read More…]
“Curiosity rover has taken its last selfie on the Vera Rubin Ridge and descended toward a clay region of Mount Sharp. The twisting ridge on Mars has been the rover’s home for more than a year, providing scientists with new samples and new questions to puzzle over,” NASA said in[Read More…]
Washington, The US space agency has replaced one of the astronauts assigned to fly on the first crewed test launch of a first-time Boeing capsule to take passengers to the International Space Station (ISS). NASA announced late Tuesday that astronaut Eric Boe will no longer fly on the mission owing[Read More…]
London, Do you know how we recall a past event? According to a new study, when retrieving information, the human brain reconstructs that experience in reverse order indicating that it focuses first on recovering the ‘gist’ and recalls more specific details later. The study found that when we initially see[Read More…]
Washington, Astronomers, including some of Indian origin, have detected repeating energy bursts from a single source from deep space for the second time in history — giving impetus to theories that there could be evidence of advanced alien life. A Canadian-led team of scientists found the second repeating fast radio[Read More…]
New York, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered a third small planet outside our solar system, scientists report. The new planet named HD 21749b, orbits a bright, nearby dwarf star about 53 light years away in the constellation Reticulum. It appears to have the longest orbital period of[Read More…]
London: Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have proposed that in the near future giant telescopes like NASA’s upcoming James Webb Space Telescope might be replaced by large number of tiny spacecraft working in tandem. In a bid to study planets beyond our solar system, NASA engineers are[Read More…]
London, After cultivating lettuce in space three years ago, crew members aboard the International Space Station could be growing beans in 2021, new research suggests. The beans could be planted in high-tech planters developed at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). The planters can regulate all the water,[Read More…]
The first partial solar eclipse of the year 2019 is set to take place on Sunday (January 6). The astronomical spectacle will begin at around 5 AM according to the Indian Standard Time(IST), unfortunately it will not be visible to the Indian subcontinent. The viewing would be though possible to[Read More…]
Bengaluru: India is planning to launch 32 space missions in 2019, a top space official said here. “The year 2019 promises to be challenging to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) community with 32 planned missions,” its chairman K. Sivan said in a message to his employees on New Year[Read More…]
