WASHINGTON (TIP): Nasa‘s Cassini spacecraft has documented the formation of a small icy object within the rings of Saturn that may be a new moon probably no more than half a mile in diameter. The […]

NEW YORK (TIP): Imagine glasses that are strong as steel and can be used for producing hard, durable and seamless complex shapes that no other metal processing method can. Scientists at Yale University have devised […]

WASHINGTON (TIP): A Nasa robot has snapped pictures showing glints of light on the Martian horizon, which some UFO enthusiasts have seized on as a sign of alien life on the Red Planet. Not so, […]

WASHINGTON (TIP): The US navy has announced plans to deploy its first ever electromagnetic railgun, a “game changing” device that fires projectiles without explosives over distance of 160 km and at seven times the speed […]

LONDON (TIP): Researchers have found that a human sneeze produces a gas cloud that keeps potentially infectious droplets aloft over much greater distances than previously realized. The smaller droplets that emerge in a cough or […]

AHMEDABAD (TIP): Normally, helmets protect your head – but here is one developed by four Gujarat students that will help you when your rationality fails! Tushar Patel and his three friends studying electronic communication engineering […]

WASHINGTON (TIP): Imagine a shirt that could grow back a sleeve if it rips off or a couch that can grow when you want to rest your feet. Researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology are […]

LONDON (TIP): An international team of planetary scientists have now calculated the exact age of the Moon. The team of researchers from France, Germany and the US has simulated the growth of the terrestrial planets […]

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (TIP): Scientists have uncovered a vast ocean beneath the icy surface of Saturn’s little moon Enceladus. Italian and American researchers made the discovery using Cassini, a Nasa-European spacecraft still exploring Saturn and […]

LONDON (TIP): Researchers have developed a fist-sized robot surgeon that slides into the body through an incision in the belly button and can help perform surgery on astronauts in deep space. After the robot enters […]

LONDON (TIP): Scientists have built the clearest picture yet of how our genetic material is regulated in order to make the human body work. They have mapped how a network of switches, built into our […]

LONDON (TIP): Until 2012, nobody was certain it existed till the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) announced they had found the God Particle. Scientists now say that it is more likely than ever now […]

LONDON (TIP): Scientists have for the first time ever created the brightest light ever imagined in the entire universe. X-rays brighter than a million suns were created which exposed the biochemical structure of a 50 […]

WASHINGTON (TIP): A Nasa spacecraft has discovered a new gully channel on the surface of Mars which may have formed only within the last three years. A comparison of images taken by the High Resolution […]

LONDON (TIP): A specimen of moss that has been buried frozen in the Antarctic permafrost for over 1,500 years has suddenly sprung back to life. Interestingly, getting them to grow didn’t even take any coaxing. […]

MUMBAI (TIP): Researchers from a Spanish university have developed a new computer software to diagnose cardiovascular risk on the basis of an eye scan. Doctors from Valenica University have started studying the blood vessel network […]

NEW DELHI (TIP): The 8GB version of Apple‘s iPhone 5C is official. The company has launched the 8GB version of iPhone 5C, the cheaper plastic body variant of the iPhone, in several countries in Europe. […]

LONDON (TIP): Not to be confused with the Xbox of the same name, the Moto 360 is Motorola’s new smartwatch, and one of the first to be announced with Android Wear. Android Wear is Google‘s […]

WASHINGTON (TIP): Researchers suggest that a beanstalk-like ‘space elevator’ consisting of an Earthanchored tether that extends 100,000km into space could eventually provide routine, safe, inexpensive and quiet access to the Earth’s orbit. An assessment of […]

LONDON (TIP): We all know that LED lights are durable and save energy. Now researchers have found a novel way to make LED lamps even more compact while supplying more light than commercially available models. […]

LONDON: In a blow to ozone-protection efforts, scientists have identified four new man-made gases in the atmosphere which are contributing to the destruction of the ozone layer. Two of the newly discovered gases are accumulating […]

SYDNEY (TIP): The steam and heat from volcanoes allowed species of plants and animals to survive past ice ages, a study showed on Tuesday, offering help for scientists dealing with climate change. An international team […]

WASHINGTON (TIP): The venom of Tarantula spiders may hold key to the development of a safe and effective new painkiller, a new study has found. Screening more than 100 spider toxins, Yale University researchers identified […]