Science

India successfully puts navigation satellite into orbit

India puts into orbit navigation satellite IRNSS-1I, a part of its...
Chinese space station burns up over South Pacific

China’s Tiangong-1 space station re-enters the earth’s atmosphere...
Research starts on advanced icebreaker

Chinese scientists have begun preliminary research on a next...

‘Enzyme that affects ageing, cancer decoded’

Elated scientists announced Wednesday the completion of a 20-year...
‘People who hear colour may have overactive brain connectivity’

Synesthesia is a rare and non-pathological condition wherein the...
Human eggs grown to maturity in lab: Researchers

Scientists announce to have grown human egg cells to full maturity...

‘Super blue blood moon’ in Bangladesh sky

If you miss it tonight, you will have to wait for another 35 years...
Top 10 science breakthroughs in 2017

Here are the top ten scientific discoveries of 2017 which hold the...
Pentagon’s secret UFO hunters

At last the Pentagon has acknowledged funding a secret multi...

Alien life in our Solar System? Study hints at Saturn's moon

Humanity may need look no further than our own Solar System in the...
Discovery of neutron star collision is 'breakthrough' of 2017

The world's first-ever detection of two faraway neutron stars...
Non-smokers more attractive: Study

If you are a smoker then people will find you less attractive, that...

Chinese students spend 200 days on virtual 'moon base'

Chinese students spend 200 continuous days in a "lunar lab...
'Rainbow dinosaur' had feathers like hummingbirds

There’s not a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. There’s an...
Beetles to the rescue in disasters

A swarm of beetles, carrying tiny computers as backpacks, could one...

Flies can help in public health surveillance: Study

Science could soon unleash a most incongruous army in the war...
Astronomers bid farewell to Saturn spacecraft

Global astronomers bid farewell to NASA's famed Cassini...
Scientists dim sunlight, suck up carbon dioxide

Scientists are sucking carbon dioxide from the air with giant fans...

‘UNESCO award is recognition for my country’

The UNESCO Carlos J Finlay Prize 2017 in Microbiology proves that...
NASA captures images of strong solar flares

Two high-intensity solar flares are emitted, the second of which...
Slug slime inspires new kind of surgical glue

Scientists develop an experimental surgical glue inspired by the...

Listening could help understand others better than looking: Study

If you want to really understand how someone is feeling it's...
Pakistani youth's 'electric honeycomb' garners int'l praise

Muhammad Shaheer Niazi, a 17-year-old Pakistani boy, has garnered...
The perfect crime foiled by... a mosquito

Researchers at Nagoya University show that human blood extracted...

UK first country to legally offer 'three-parent' gene therapy

Britain's fertility regulator gives the green light for the country to become the first in the world to legally offer "three-parent baby" fertility treatments.
Google celebrates birthday of J C Bose

Google is celebrating the 158th birthday of Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose, one of the fathers of radio science, with a doodle which shows him sitting in his laboratory.
Navigation system failure cited in crash of European Mars lander

Europe's Schiaparelli Mars lander crashed last month after a sensor failure caused it to cast away its parachute and turn off braking thrusters more than two miles (3.7 km) above the surface of the planet, as if it had already landed, a report says.
Huge underground deposit of ice found on Mars

A giant deposit of buried ice on Mars contains about as much water as Lake Superior of French, a new study reveals.
Human ancestor 'Lucy' adept at tree climbing as well as walking

Scientists using sophisticated scanning technology on the fossil bones of the ancient human ancestor from Ethiopia dubbed "Lucy" have determined that she was adept at climbing trees as well as walking, an ability that in her case may have proven fatal.
Underground ocean found on Pluto, likely slushy with ice

Scientists have found evidence that tiny, distant Pluto harbors a hidden ocean beneath the frozen surface of its heart-shaped central plain containing as much water as all of Earth's seas.
Wireless implant allows paralysed monkeys to walk again

Scientists have successfully restored walking movement in paralysed legs of primates, by implanting a wireless brain sensor to stimulate nerves in the spine responsible for locomotion.
Dinosaurs thrived on eve of destruction

In a humid, tropical jungle in southern China eons ago, a remarkably bird-like dinosaur with wing-like arms, a toothless beak and a dome-shaped crest atop its head becomes trapped in mud, struggles in vain to escape and dies.
Vegetarians don’t have better heart health than meat-eaters: Study

A recent American study concludes that cutting out meat does not reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease in the next decade.
Bangladesh born scientist jointly wins Prince Sultan prize for water

A Bangladeshi-American scientist and his team member have won the prestigious creativity prize of the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water (PSIPW).