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NASA drones to explore Moon and Mars
Washington: NASA engineers are developing drones that can fly to areas which are inaccessible to rovers - such as the shaded region of a crater - on Mars, asteroids and…
Scientists calculate speed of ice formation
For the first time, researchers have directly calculated the rate at which water crystallises into ice in a realistic computer model of water molecules. The simulations, which were carried out…
Astronomers discover largest feature in the universe
Astronomers have found what may be the largest feature in the known universe: a ring of nine gamma ray bursts - and hence galaxies - five billion light years across.…
NASA extends contract with Russia to fly astronauts to the International Space Station
NASA extended its contract with Russia to fly astronauts to the International Space Station due to budget cuts that have delayed commercial alternatives, the space agency said on Wednesday. Extending…
India Launches its Biggest Telescope MAST in Udaipur
In a groundbreaking achievement, India uncovered the biggest telescope of the nation namely “Multi Application Solar Telescope” (MAST) at the Udaipur Solar Observatory on Tuesday. Udaipur Solar Observatory (USO) belongs…
NASA’s biggest worry! Avoid traffic jams around Mars
Los Angeles :With two more Mars orbiters sent into space last year, including India’s MOM probe, traffic has picked up around the red planet so much so that NASA has…
World Glaciers Melting at Record Rates: Study
Geneva: Glaciers all over the world are melting at an alarming rate, with the first decade of the current century seeing up to thrice the rates of the 20th century,…
GSK Pharma’s Bengaluru unit to be operational by 2017
GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals (GSK India) has said its greenfield manufacturing facility at Bengaluru, having an installed capacity of over 9 billion tablets and capsules per year, will be operational by 2017.…
Rising sea level poses threat to Bengal Tiger: IUCN
KOCHI: Rising sea levels caused by climate change threaten to wipe out Sundarbans-- a large mangrove forest area shared by India and Bangladesh --and thus world's beautiful Bengal tigers, according…
China constructing world’s largest telescope with a dish size of 30 football fields
Beijing: Supercomputer Skyeye-1, capable of a quadrillion computing operations per second, will support space exploration by the world's largest radio telescope whose dish size will be equivalent to 30 football…
Robot passes test for human trait for the first time
New York: A robot has for the first time displayed the human trait of self-awareness while attempting to solve a classic logic puzzle, scientists say. In the puzzle known as…
Soon cheaper, efficient metal-based solar cells maybe available
WASHINGTON DC: In a breakthrough discovery, scientists have revealed a new method which could lead to cheap, efficient metal-based solar cells. Scientists from Rice's Laboratory for Nanophotonics described a new…