NEW DELHI (TIP): Water scarcity is endemic in our country. With groundwater irrigation accounting for over 60% of the total area irrigated, it’s important to save this precious resource. Recognising this, the ministry of water […]
JOHANNESBURG (TIP): Scientists have found the first-ever comet material on Earth – a black pebble filled with diamonds – left behind when an ‘apocalyptic’ comet exploded over modern-day Egypt, 28 million years ago. The discovery […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): US scientists have developed a new fourlegged robot called WildCat that gallops at 25 km/h on flat ground and will aid military and rescue operations. The robot was built by Boston Dynamics, a […]
LOS ANGELES ( TIP) A Nasa spacecraft bound for Jupiter will swing by Earth to get the boost it needs to arrive at the giant gas planet in 2016. Using Earth as a gravitational slingshot […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Researchers are developing a wireless music player that fits the ear like earbuds and can be controlled by biting. The music player ‘Split’ eliminates headphone cords and the need for a pocket to […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): A giant radio telescope in Chile has received the last piece of its 66-antenna array, marking the beginning of a new era of discoveries in deep space. The final antenna for the Atacama […]
HOUSTON (TIP): Ancient Mars was home to giant volcanoes capable of eruptions a thousand times more powerful than the one that shook Mount St. Helens in 1980, scientists said. The finding raises fresh questions about […]
BERLIN (TIP): Scientists have successfully generated the world’s sharpest x-ray beam which is ten thousand times thinner than a strand of hair. This fine beam of x-ray light barely 5 nanometres in diameter, created by […]
BARCELONA (TIP): Mankind’s fight with diabetes and its associated medical complications goes back over 3,500 years ago. In fact, the earliest record of diabetes, written on a third dynasty Egyptian papyrus by physician Hesy-Ra , […]
LONDON (TIP): Thunder power! In a Frankensteinian breakthrough, scientists have for the first time charged a mobile phone using lightning bolt. Famous English author Mary Shelley in her gothic novel ‘Frankenstein’ used lightning to breathe […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): A simple measurement of the sweat gland activity of a depressed person can nearly accurately determine if they have suicidal propensity, a new research has claimed. Lars-Hakan Thorell, associate professor in experimental psychiatry […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Nasa’s Curiosity rover has found more evidence of water on ancient Mars during a recent pit stop along the way towards a huge Red Planet mountain. The one-tonne Curiosity rover resumed a trek […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Astronomers have discovered the densest galaxy ever to be found – packed with an extraordinary number of stars – about 54 million light years from our own Milky Way. The ultra-compact dwarf galaxy, […]
LONDON (TIP): Your smart phone may soon be able to double up as a high resolution microscope that can detect even the smallest virus. University of California Los Angeles researchers have created a portable smartphone […]
NEW YORK (TIP): A 33-year-old man in US has undergone a ‘miraculous’ medical procedure to grow back his index finger which was chomped down by an overzealous horse while he was feeding the animal. Paul […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Orbital Sciences Corp launched the first flight of its unmanned Cygnus cargo ship today to the International Space Station, as Nasa forges ahead with its plan to privatize US space missions. “This is […]
MELBOURNE (TIP): The big bang theory may be a myth, as cosmologists have speculated that the universe was created after a star collapsed into a black hole – a theory that helps to explain why […]
CAPE CANAVERAL (TIP): More than 40 years after the last Apollo astronauts left the moon, NASA is preparing to launch a small robotic spacecraft to investigate one of their most bizarre discoveries. Crews reported seeing […]
How often do you forget to pop that pill to control your shooting blood pressure? Or skip the aspirin tablet that could have prevented a stroke at night? Not anymore. For the first time, doctors […]
HYDERABAD (TIP): A group of scientists from the National Geophysical Research Institute is one step closer to actually viewing earthquakes and find out what triggers them. A pioneering deep-earth study underway in the Koyna-Warna region […]
PARIS (TIP): Scientists said on August 28 they had used stem cells to grow primitive human brain tissue for use in studying disorders and early development of this most complex of organs. They used the […]
MUMBAI (TIP): Scientists have detected magmatic water — water that originates from deep within the Moon’s interior — on the surface of the Moon. These findings, published in the August 25 issue of Nature Geoscience, […]
MUMBAI (TIP): In a major boost to India’s muchawaited mars mission, the red planet-bound spacecraft cleared a crucial 15-day test at the Bangalore satellite centre. The 1,350kg spacecraft, which Isro plans to launch after October […]
LONDON (TIP): An Indian scientist at the University of Washington has performed the world’s first ever noninvasive human-to-human brain interface, in which one researcher was able to send a brain signal via the internet to […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The Sun has unleashed a powerful storm, sending an enormous cloud of superheated particles rocketing towards Earth at a mind-boggling speed of 3.3 million kilometre per hour. On August 20, the Sun erupted […]
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