Simply put: Politics shakti

The ghost of Christmas yet to come: how an AI ‘SantaNet’ might end up destroying the world

Scientists identified a series of behaviours by the AI general intelligence system which, though well-intentioned, could have adverse impacts on …

Watch: What 30 years of Hubble has meant for humanity

The telescope has been the eyes of astrinomers above the Earth's atmosphere

Simply Put: Origin of Man

Heat-tolerant bacteria that survived meteorite impact

The meteorite was made of a highly dense material and weighed 2.26 kilogrammes

Researchers develop materials to detect hydrogen with high sensitivity

This is important because hydrogen gas is difficult to produce and it is hard to detect if it leaks

Airplanes face a growing risk of being hit by uncontrolled re-entries of rockets used to launch satellites

An aircraft in flight could be seriously damaged by just 300 grams of space debris impacting an engine, windshield or other critical surface

Life on Mars? NASA's Curiosity helps discover traces of ancient ocean

A recently released set of topography maps provides new evidence for an ancient northern ocean on Mars, signifying a higher potential for life on …

How tech rebooted economics and platforms broke the invisible hand

Growing evidence and new research explain the evolution of economic diversity and the need to rethink monopolies in the age of technology  

Fast radio bursts: The mystery deepens

Research by Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment and Fast Radio Burst Project finds repeated pattern to FRBs

Red planet rumbles: NASA’s recordings of ‘marsquakes’ let us listen to the martian heartbeat

Sounds and vibrations are important, they tell us about the medium they’re travelling through

Smart, traceable drug delivery can make cancer therapy more effective

Researchers at Indian Institute of Technology-Mandi have developed multifunctional gold nanostructure that can be used in cancer imaging and therapy

Surprise discovery for Indian scientists: nanosheets can also act as chemical reagents

Team from IIT Gandhinagar discovers that boron-rich nanosheets are chemical reagents too, with potential applications in energy storage devices …

Researchers use metamaterials to enhance detection of defects in large structures

Metamaterials are artificially crafted materials with unique internal microstructures that give them properties not found in nature

Simply Put: Maus

This is how hot stars evolve in Globular Clusters in the Milky Way

AstroSat unravels the nature of the special kinds of stars

Sensing pressure using paper

This sensor is made of plain and corrugated cellulose papers coated with the chemical tin-monosulfide

Guess what NASA plans to buy? Gender-inclusive space suits

NASA had to cancel its first all-female space walk earlier March 2, 2019, as they didn't have enough space suits that fit two women

Scientists are using new satellite tech to find glow-in-the-dark milky seas of maritime lore

Compared with the old technology, viewing Day/Night Band imagery is like putting on glasses for the first time

‘Vapour on Venus will tell us if it’s alive’

More than two-and-a-half decades after its last missions to Venus, NASA has planned a trip to Earth’s nearest neighbour

Geospatial tech can fast-track sustainable development beyond COVID-19: UNESCAP

But re-skilling youth and investments to strengthen their technological skills will be essential  

New discovery paves way for ‘silicon of the future’

Researchers placed 2 ultra-thin materials on top of each other to get a new material with hybrid properties

IIT Kharagpur gets new high power computing facility

The research activities will include building hardware and software for high performance computing systems, data management, analytics and …

Indian scientists make magnetic graphene for NextGen digital devices

The work could pave the way for stretching performance of integrated circuits and eventually lead to realization of laptops powered by graphene-…

Boom boom boom — like a heartbeat: Scientists pick up mysterious fast radio bursts

Properties of the signal suggest that the source lives in a very turbulent environment inside its galaxy