NASA has announced its first mission to fly directly into our sun’s atmosphere.
The mission, Solar Probe Plus, is scheduled to launch in the summer of...
The world’s largest aircraft has successfully completed a test flight, bringing the massive helium-filled airship one step closer to commercial use.
The hybrid aircraft dubbed...
NASA scientists have designed an inflatable greenhouse that astronauts could one day use to grow fresh food and produce oxygen on Mars or Moon.
This 'Prototype...
After 17-week-long extended technical stop, the world’s largest and most powerful particle smasher Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has restarted circulating beams of protons.
Last week,...
SpaceX blasted off a secretive U.S. government satellite, called NROL-76.
It is the first military launch by the SpaceX with a classified payload for the...
Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has developed a safer alternative to fire-prone lithium-ion batteries.
They have developed the nickel-zinc (Ni-Zn) batteries in which...
History will be created when America’s space agency, NASA launches the world’s smallest satellite, KalamSat on June 21.
It has been made by an Indian...
Astronomers have constructed the first map of the Universe based on the positions of supermassive black holes.
The map precisely measures the expansion history of...
Latest study shows how custom genetically engineered animal models are easily generated using a new patent-pending technology called Easi-CRISPR.
Easi-CRISPR allows researchers to create these much-needed...
NASA scientists have released new global maps of Earth at night, providing the clearest yet composite view of the patterns of human settlement across...
Astronomers, using NASA’s Kepler space telescope, have discovered a Venus-like planet orbiting a dim star that is one-fifth the diameter of our Sun and...
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has completed its 50,000th orbit recently, continuing to compile the most sharp-eyed global coverage ever accomplished by a camera...
Universal Robots has introduced a collaborative robot technology (Cobot) accessible to companies of all sizes.
A cobot is a robot intended to physically interact with...
An Australian-Chinese research team has created the world's thinnest hologram.
Team led by RMIT University's Distinguished Professor Min Gu has designed a nano-hologram that is...
Scientists at IIT Roorkee have used fruit Jamun to create inexpensive and more efficient solar cells.
Researchers used naturally occurring pigment found in jamun as...
NASA successfully launched its football-stadium-sized, heavy-lift super pressure balloon (SPB) from Wanaka, New Zealand, on a mission designed to run 100 or more days...
Scientists at Marine Instrumentation Group of CSIR — National Institute of Oceanography have developed a robotic platform, Seabed Resident Event Profiler (SREP), that can...
Researchers from the University of Basel's Swiss Nanoscience Institute network have succeeded in studying the strength of hydrogen bonds in a single molecule using...
The Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System (Aegis BMD or ABMD) is a United States Department of Defense Missile Defense Agency program developed to provide...
NASA scientists have developed a new device to monitor harmful radiation exposure, which may help keep astronauts safe during deep-space missions such as the...
Researchers have discovered a new method of microbial energy production, called "flavin-based electron bifurcation" (FBEB).
This newly found method is actually an ancient form of energy...
Astronomers have discovered the 'primitive atmosphere' surrounding a planet 'Warm Neptune' with the help of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and Spitzer Space Telescope.
The study revealed...
Quantum physicist Mikko Möttönen and his team at Aalto University have invented a quantum-circuit refrigerator, which can reduce errors in quantum computing.
The global race...
Earth Scientists Don Baker and Kassandra Sofonio at McGill University have published a new theory of earth crust's formation with a novel twist.
Their resulting paper,...
The U.S. military's experimental X-37B space plane landed in Florida after completing two years of secret mission.
The unmanned Boeing-built space plane X-37B, blasted off in...
India's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-F09) successfully launched the 2230kg South Asia Satellite (GSAT-9) into its planned Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO).
This launch of GSLV...
Scientists at University of Barcelona have led a project to create a diode out of a 1 nm-sized single molecule with high rectification ratios.
Diodes, commonly...
Recently, researchers at the University of California, Riverside have sequenced the complete genome of barley.
Barley is grown throughout the world, with Russia, Germany, France,...
NASA astronaut Jack Fischer and cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian space agency Roscosmos arrived at the International Space Station where they will continue...
According to latest findings, planet Mars has electrically charged metal atoms (ions) high in its atmosphere.
The metal ions can reveal previously invisible activity in the...
Researchers of Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) has demonstrated for the first time that two different types of micro-organisms -- bacteria and fungi --...
Astronomers have found two ultra-compact dwarf galaxies with supermassive black holes.
They have found two ultra-compact dwarf galaxies, VUCD3 and M59cO, with supermassive black holes.
The...
Scientists in USA have created the record for highest efficiency in solar hydrogen production via a photoelectrochemical (PEC) water-splitting process.
The new solar-to-hydrogen (STH) efficiency...
Team of scientists based at Geneva University Hospitals (HUG) and at the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, has succeeded in defining a "signature" composed...
Researchers have developed a prototype cheetah robot.
Scientist Folkertsma has dedicated four years of research and development to constructing a scaled-down robotic version of the...
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have developed a method to analyze the glycan shield on HIV’s protective outer glycoprotein, developed as a...
Astronomers have discovered an atmosphere around the super-Earth planet GJ 1132b. This marks the first detection of an atmosphere around an Earth-like planet other than...
China launched its first cargo spacecraft to space. The Tianzhou-1 cargo resupply spacecraft lifted off on a Long March-7 Y2 rocket from the Wenchang...
The International Space Station will be capable of dozens of new scientific investigations from NASA and around the world when Orbital ATK's Cygnus spacecraft...
The Technology of processing Nickel Free High-Nitrogen Steel (HNS) has been developed by Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).
HNS has been found to have...
Government has inaugurated Multi-Sensor Aero-Geophysical Surveys over Obvious Geological Potential Areas for mineral exploration which is both time efficient and cost effective.
Minister of Mines...
IBM and The Weather Company launched the India’s first mobile alerting platform that will deliver weather alerts without internet.
The technology uses peer-to-peer connections on...
Scientists have developed a new wireless Internet based on infrared rays that is 100 times faster than existing Wi-Fi networks.
The wireless network developed by...
Scientists at the Central Institute of Fisheries Technology (CIFT), Kochi, identified the new clone while assessing the prevalence of MRSA in seafood and the...
NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler space telescope was hit by a cosmic ray event during a recent campaign to observe TRAPPIST-1.
TRAPPIST-1 is a star system that...
India’s first lunar probe — the Chandrayaan-1 Spacecraft — which was considered lost has been found orbiting the Moon by NASA scientists.
Indian Space Research Organisation...
The Government intends to set up the India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) in West Bodi Hills, Theni District of Tamil Nadu. The project is awaiting...
Scientists have discovered a new 430 million-year-old fossil and has named it in honour of Sir David Attenborough.
The fossil is named Cascolus Ravitis in honour...
Scientists have identified a record breaking brown dwarf (a star too small for nuclear fusion) with the 'purest' composition and the highest mass yet known....
The first massive data set of a "cosmic census" has been released using the largest digital camera on the Subaru Telescope.
With its beautiful images...
Scientists using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory as well as NASA's NuSTAR and the Australia Telescope Compact Array have found a star that whips around a...
The following Science Cities have been set up by Ministry of Culture through National Council of Science Museums (NCSM), an Autonomous Organisation under the...
The Nuclear Recycle Board was formed with the approval of the Cabinet during September 2009.
Nuclear Recycle Board functions as an entity within Bhabha Atomic...
National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has established an atmospheric monitoring station in the campus of Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology (IHBT) at Palampur (H.P.) at...
The Hubble space telescope has captured a new image showcasing an incredibly massive galaxy located under 400 million light—years away from the Earth. The...
NASA has released its 2017-2018 software catalog totally free of cost. The package includes thousands of newly developed software; which NASA uses for its...
NASA is sending a new self-sufficient plant growth system to the International Space Station (ISS) that will help prepare astronauts to grow their own...
NASA’s Mars-orbiting MAVEN spacecraft was forced to perform a manoeuvre to avoid a head on collision with Mars' moon Phobos.
The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile...
India’s oldest research reactor ‘Apsara’, which is being revamped after it was shut down permanently in 2010, is likely to be recommissioned in 2018.
The...
Scientists at the University at Buffalo in the USA have developed a small-scale solar-powered purifier, which could provide a highly efficient and inexpensive way to...
Scientists from University of Cambridge have succesfully created a structure resembling a mouse embryo in culture, using two types of stem cells -- the body's 'master...
Scientists from National Astronomical Observatory of Japan and Princeton University has published a "cosmic census" of a large swath of the night sky containing...
In a Report published in Nature, remains of microorganisms at least 3,770 million years old have been discovered by an international team led by UCL...
Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory (DMRL), Hyderabad, a premier research laboratory of Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) and Jindal Stainless (Hisar) Limited (JSHL) signed...
Three institutes of Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE), Dehradun, have developed 20 high-yielding varieties of plant species. The Variety Releasing Committee...
Doctors in India have successfully removed world’s largest adrenal tumour from the body of 55-year-old Ashwini Marwah, who had been steadily gaining weight over...
Scientists have setup a Seed Repository on an Arctic island. Around 50,000 new samples from seed collections around the world, including India, have been deposited...
China has started to build a new-generation supercomputer that is expected to be 10 times faster than the current world champion.
This year, China is...
Scientists from India have discovered seven new frog species belonging to the genus Nyctibatrachus, commonly known as Night Frogs.
This find is a result of...
NASA has selected proposals for the creation of two multi-disciplinary, university-led research institutes that will focus on the development of technologies critical to extending...
