LONDON (TIP): Machines with the ability to attack targets without any human intervention must be banned before they are developed for use on the battlefield, campaigners against “killer robots” urged. The weapons, which could be […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Researchers, led by an Indian-origin scientist, have identified genes which help female mice and some other mammals delay the onset of pregnancy. Unlike in humans, the remarkable ability, known as embryonic diapause, […]
HOUSTON (TIP): A first of its kind ultra-lightweight plane powered completely by the sun is set to fly coast-to-coast this spring. The Solar Impulse plane will stop in Dallas city in Texas during its historic […]
LONDON (TIP): In a first-of-its kind procedure in the UK, doctors have employed a pioneering threedimensional printing technology to create a prosthetic face for a man who had the entire left side of his face […]
MUMBAI (TIP): Move over bionic ears and hearing devices, i-ears are here. A team from the University of Essex has developed a free mobile application that can turn the iPhone or iPod into a hearing […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Scientists claim to have developed new contact lenses that can restore age-related loss of near vision when worn by the user every night. Most people have age-related declines in near vision (presbyopia) requiring […]
LONDON (TIP): Bio-batteries have now taken a giant leap towards becoming a reality. British scientists have made an important breakthrough in the quest to generate clean electricity from bacteria. Findings published today show that proteins […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): NASA scientists have discovered that a swarm of high-speed space objects that slammed into the Moon four billion years ago also bombarded the giant asteroid Vesta and many other asteroids. Scientists from NASA’s […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Some famous cow breeds of the Americas, including the iconic Texas Longhorn, have descended from Indian ancestors, a new genetic study reveals. Indian cows traveled to East Africa, then mixed with local […]
LONDON (TIP): Scientists claim to have developed a tiny under-the-skin implant which can predict a heart attack in advance by several hours. The device, developed by Swiss scientists, is just 1.4cm long, and can check […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Voyager 1 spacecraft has not yet left the solar system or reached interstellar space, Nasa scientists have clarified, amid reports that the spacecraft has exited our solar system. “The Voyager team is aware […]
MUMBAI (TIP): Curiosity has resumed science investigations and returned to active status following two days in a precautionary standby status, “safe mode,” Nasa announced on Wednesday. The next steps will include checking the rover’s active […]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla (TIP): Nasa chief Charles Bolden has advice on how to handle a large asteroid headed toward New York City: Pray. That’s about all the United States – or anyone for that matter […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): A “cheetah” robot designed by MIT researchers may soon outpace its animal counterparts in running efficiency. In treadmill tests, the researchers have found that the robot – about the size and weight of […]
MUMBAI (TIP): The 2.5 billion dollar Curiosity mission has attained a major breakthrough with the sixwheeled one tonne rover finally establishing that ancient Mars could have supported life in the form living microbes, a Nasa […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): In a first-of-its-kind discovery in nearly a century, Nasa scientists have found the third-closest star system to the Sun – located only 6.5 light-years away. The pair of newly found stars is the […]
LONDON (TIP): A new ‘black box’ device that warns car drivers of an impending breakdown in advance through a phone call, text or email is to be launched in UK. The automated system to be […]
LOS ANGELES (TIP): The Arctic sea ice cover, melting rapidly due to global warming, will be so thin by 2050 that ships will be able to sail directly across the North Pole for the first […]
LONDON (TIP): Till now, pacemakers helped your heart run like a well-oiled machine or prevented an epileptic fit. But in a first-of-its-kind breakthrough, scientists will announce on Thursday that a pacemaker for the brain can […]
LONDON (TIP): Think of the frozen arctic and you would imagine sea lions, penguins or polar bears. But how about a camel? British and Canadian researchers have discovered the first evidence of an extinct giant […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The outer reaches of a ‘supermassive’ black hole, more than two million miles across, or eight times the earth-moon distance, is spinning at nearly the speed of light. The gigantic object is at […]
LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA: Gadget fans and gizmo addicts , keep an eye out for next big thingamabob. Soon you can have it keep an eye out for you. Google’s Sergei Brin let the world have […]
LONDON (TIP): India has successfully launched the world’s first smartphone — loaded with a number of experimental ‘Apps’ , some serious and some just for fun — into the orbit. The University of Surrey’s Surrey […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): A 325-meter asteroid that will safely fly by the Earth in 2029 and 2036, may strike the planet in the year 2068, scientists have warned. However, the chances of 99942 Apophis striking the […]
NEW YORK (TIP): A Singapore-based scientist has developed a Harry Potterstyle ‘invisibility cloak’ which can shield objects behind it. Baile Zhang of Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University showed off his ‘magical’ device earlier this week at […]
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