Nasa's planet hunting mission finds three new 'worlds'

The team hopes research will reveal more planets, one of which may have the ability to form water and be habitable

Chandrayaan 2 aims to explore the dark side of the moon

India's second mission to the Moon aims to venture the satellite’s south polar region

US biologist found dead during Crete conference, police suspect homicide

Suzanne Eaton was working as a developmental biologist at Germany’s Max Planck institutes

5G will adversely affect weather predictions: Meteorologists in the US

Meteorologists are not happy sharing frequency band as they believe it will interfere with weather forecasting

Will 5G slip through the net or cast it wide?

As the Centre plans a Rs 6-lakh crore spectrum auction to make the introduction of 5G affordable, experts and industry stand at odds over its …

Bitcoins generate as much CO2 as Bengaluru or Chennai

Bitcoin mining — computing capacity used in the production — was the highest in Asia (68 per cent)

India plans to launch a space station

India would become the fourth country to launch a space station after the US, Russia and China

MIT researchers explore physics of evaporation

More than temperature, it's changes in pressure that influence how quickly liquid turns into gas

Feathers came 100 million years before birds: Study

The structures formed 250 million years ago in the Early Triassic period not for display or flight, but purely for insulation

New group of ancient Siberians identified

Scientists named the group ‘Ancient North Siberians’ and described them as the ‘missing link’ in the Native American …

Moon is shrinking, causing moonquakes

In the past millions of years the Earth’s natural satellite has shrunk by almost 46 meters

Space Race 2.0: Littered backyard

There have been about 70 anti-satellite missile missions by four countries, but only a few have been catalogued for creating debris

Notre-Dame de Paris: From searing emotion to the future rebirth of a World Heritage Site

Of all the historic monuments on earth, Notre-Dame de Paris is one of the “superstars”: its unique history, exceptional architecture …

Helping cells become better protein factories could improve gene therapies and other treatments — a new technique shows how

Gene therapy involves replacing a defective gene with a functioning one that can direct cells to produce missing or dysfunctional proteins

Innovation may not be the answer to India’s development challenges

India ranks second among middle income countries on ‘quality of innovation’

James Webb Telescope captures clearest view of Neptune’s rings after 3 decades

Webb images vividly display Neptune’s fainter dust bands in addition to many brilliant, narrow rings

Opinion: Earthquakes are a boon for Earth

Earthquakes are natural but huge losses of life and property during the incidence of an earthquake are anthropogenic

IIIT-Hyderabad creates the first Indian brain atlas

The researchers in IIIT have also revealed that the Indian brain is smaller compared to others

Nasa unveils the stellar cosmos

Here are some of the images the American space agency selected to feature “our fascinating universe”

India an overperformer in frontier tech among developing countries: UN report

Several developing countries showed stronger capabilities to use and adapt frontier technologies above their GDPs, but were lagging behind 

Animals can feel an upcoming earthquake, says study

Animals might sense ionisation of the air caused by large rock pressures in earthquake zones with their fur. They can also smell gases released …

On Stygian shores

Technology is opening up new vistas for the world's underworld, as crooks learn to manipulate it to outwit their pursuers and captors

A will where there is a hill

Ants have found ways by which to make up for the loss of the queen. The perpetuation of the species and the continued use of the elaborate nests …

Robots develop new semiconductor materials in tests that are 10 times faster & greener

With the technology, scientists have been able to develop alloys with perovskites materials that can improve solar cells

A pirate loved by academics

Alexandra Elbakyan's Sci-Hub is putting up a spirited fight against publishers who shackle science behind high cost paywalls