WASHINGTON (TIP): NASA is testing a stationary car-sized Mars lander scheduled to launch in March 2016, that will be the first mission devoted to understanding the interior structure of the Red planet. Examining the planet’s […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): A new human ancestor species which roamed the Afar region of Ethiopia 3.3 to 3.5 million years ago has been discovered by an international team of scientists. Named Australopithecus deyiremeda, this new […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Scientists have developed the first form of real-time communication that allows screens of electronic devices, such as TVs and laptops, and cameras to ‘talk’ to each other without the user knowing it. Using […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): These bladeless wind turbines can revolutionize the way wind energy is produced. A startup out of Spain called Vortex Bladeless, whose turbines look like stalks of asparagus poking out of the ground, is […]
KOLKATA (TIP): Cancer patients may soon have an organic way to fight the dreaded disease. Black rice, a heritage variety of Bengal rice, is known for its high amount of antioxidants that prevent cancer. Anupam […]
LONDON (TIP): A new anti-aging drug may be just five years away , say scientists who have identified the role of an enzyme in muscle wasting and associated age-related problems. Researchers at the University of […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The mysterious dark material coating some geological features of Jupiter’s moon Europa is likely sea salt from a subsurface ocean, discoloured by exposure to radiation, NASA scientists have found. Presence of sea salt […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Boats of the future may not sink despite damage to their structure, thanks to a new light weight composite material developed by researchers from Deep Springs Technology (DST) and the New York […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Researchers have created a miniature, fibre-optic microscope designed to peer deeply inside a living brain, allowing high-resolution 3-D imaging of inaccessible brain regions. “Microscopes today penetrate only about one millimetre into the brain […]
Doctors can now inject drugs straight into people’s brains, after making a major discovery in breaking through the barrier that keeps the nervous and circulatory systems apart. The blood-brain barrier (BBB) keeps us safe by ensuring […]
One in seven Britons have contemplated divorce because their partners spend too much time on various social media platforms, a top British legal firm has revealed. The study by Slater and Gordon Lawyers found that social […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Researchers have found a geochemical process on Saturn’s sixth largest moon that suggests life could exist on it, or could have previously existed. The team, including Christopher Glein from the Carnegie Mellon University, […]
SEOUL (TIP): A simple, thermometer-like device that could make diagnosing heart attacks easier in remote or low-income locations has been developed. Diagnosing a heart attack can require multiple tests using expensive equipment. But not everyone has access to such […]
A stronomers have discovered a galaxy that is 13.1 billion light years away from earth, making it the farthest galaxy known currently. The Universe itself is estimated to be 13.8 billion years old. So this newly found […]
The 10 biggest earthquakes recorded since 1900 have taken more than 1.5 million lives — not counting the toll from the 7.8 magnitude temblor in Nepal, which has killed over 8,000 and counting. There’s some hope […]
New York (TIP): Indian American researchers at the Harvard University have developed a biocompatible hydrogel that can speed up research and development of several promising applications in tissue engineering by using “Click Chemistry”. Wyss Core Faculty member […]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (TIP): Nasa’s pioneering Messenger spacecraft ended its four-year study of the planet Mercury on Thursday by crashing into the planet’s surface, scientists said. Flight controllers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics […]
LONDON (TIP): Scientists have been able to track the entire process of what happens inside lithium-ion batteries that leads to their overheating and exploding. “Understanding how Li-ion batteries fail and potentially cause a dangerous chain […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Scientists have for the first time successfully implanted a groundbreaking 3D-printed device to save the lives of three babies in the US suffering from a life-threatening condition that prevents normal breathing. All the […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): We’ve all heard it — that loud “Crack!” when someone pulls on stiff knuckles. But what happens to make that sound? It’s something that scientists have puzzled over for decades. A new study has […]
PARIS (TIP): Physicists said they have fine-tuned an atomic clock to the point where it won’t lose or gain a second in 15 billion years – longer than the universe has existed. The “optical lattice” […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Nasa scientists have joined the hunt for extraterrestrial life and will adapt a global climate model to simulate conditions on potentially habitable exoplanets. The effort by Nasa Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) […]
LONDON (TIP): The world’s first malaria vaccine has passed its final test but the results haven’t been emphatic. The results demonstrated that vaccination with RTS,S, followed by a booster dose administered 18 months after the […]
WASHINGTON: Indian-American researchers have developed a new car safety system that anticipates what the driver is going to do a few seconds before it happens to prevent those behind the wheel from committing mistakes. By observing […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, set to fly by the Pluto system on July 14, has sent its first color image of the dwarf planet and its largest moon Charon. “The image reveals tantalising […]
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