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The Discovery Of Seven Earth-Like Planets Orbiting An Ultra-Cool Dwarf Star

Yesterday, NASA announced that they will be announcing something big about the discovery beyond our Solar System. Now, this alone enticed many as to what big and major can be revealed beyond a system where we reside. At around 1…

Mumbai’s Shawna Pandya Is The Third Indian-Origin Woman Who’ll Visit Space!

Shawna Pandya, you may not have heard her name yet but she will soon be joining Lt. Kalpana Chawla and Sunita Williams in the list of Indian-Origin woman Astronaut to visit space. Dr. Shawna Pandya is a  neurosurgeon who was…

This Device Tricks Your Taste Buds And Makes Tasteless Food Taste Delicious!

Science is really unpredictable, I mean there were days when you could only talk to people over the phone and now you can run a business, talk, video call and what not. That was just an example but this new…

ISRO’s GSAT-18 Launched Successfully

India latest communication satellite GSAT-18 has been successfully launched from Kourou spaceport, French Guiana in an Arianespace satellite carrier. The satellite built by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will strengthen the Indian fleet of 14 communication satellites. The launch was…

Nobel Physics Prize 2016 Announced

This year Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to British-born scientists David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz on Tuesday at Stockholm for ‘revealing the secrets of exotic matter’. Exotic matter is any kind of matter which is non-baryonic i.e.,…

ISRO Launches Eight Satellites Today.

INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION (ISRO) achieved a milestone by launching eight satellites in two orbits with a single rocket on Monday. The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle(PSLV-C35) lifted off at 9:12am (IST) from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.…

New Invention: Aircraft To Fly You From London To New York In Just 11 Minutes

New Delhi: Technological advancements have been making our lives easier and aviation industry is not deprived of it. The time of traveling via air has been drastically reduced over the years. However, in today’s time of non-stop connectivity and on-demand…

No more serifs, same bright colours: Google new identity

Google has just launched a new visual identity and redesign of its multicoloured logo. At the time of writing the new logo is shown on the Google homepage being drawn by an animated hand. They doubtless were Thark warriors who…

This sportswear peels away when you’re hot and sweaty

The latest Pebble looks a touch different from previous models of the smartwatch. Instead of a square screen with rounded edges, it bears a circular watch face. Prior to last weekend’s race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, JGR announced Josh…

Israel could send the first privately-funded mission to the Moon on a Falcon 9 rocket

Israel nonprofit competing in the Google Lunar X Prize competition — will use SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket to launch its lunar lander into space, the group announced today in Jerusalem. The rocket will launch the team’s vehicle into lower Earth…

Scientists can draw very different meanings from the same data, study shows

Giving the same information to multiple scientific teams can lead to very different conclusions, a report published today in Nature shows. And that’s exactly why two researchers think scientists should share their data with others — well before they publish.…

‘Amateur astronauts’ will send a person into space in 2017

Copenhagen Suborbitals currently consists of 50 people — engineers, mathematicians and a kindergarten teacher — who are trying to send a person to space using only off-the-shelf components — the kind you would find in your local hardware store. “All…

Back to the Future: Science fiction turns science fact

One of the technological innovations presented in this film was a huge 3D display. As far as this invention is concerned, Hollywood was almost right. I had gone but a short distance further when what seemed to be an excellent…

Seen From Space: Hurricane Joaquin Churns Towards Bahamas

Hurricane Joaquin battered the Bahamas early Friday and from his perch on the International Space Station astronaut Scott Kelly was witness to the magnitude of the huge storm. Kelly captured this early morning image before the storm hit the Atlantic…

Matt Damon Could Travel To Mars In This Suit, Thanks to Nasa

When you’re making a blockbuster film that’s set on Mars, there’s a lot of science to get wrong. But for The Martian, a cinema adaptation of Andy Weir’s self-published bestseller about a lone astronaut stranded on the red planet, director Ridley…

Margaret Atwood on sex robots, social media and digital reading

Atwood’s stories defy the sci-fi tag; she prefers to call them speculative fiction. “My books build on ideas and concepts that already exist,” she says. Her new novel, The Heart Goes Last, is true to form: tapping into her signature…

Twitter’s new CEO is Jack Dorsey

My first knowledge that I was on the wrong trail came when I heard the yells of the pursuing savages suddenly grow fainter and fainter far off to my left. I had gone but a short distance further when what…

Happy Birthday To The Architect Of Indian Space Program!

Father of experimental fluid dynamics research in India, A professor, person who gave self-confidence and shape up APJ Kalam, a great teacher, visionary, the man behind the success of Indian space programme. He was the Prof. Satish Dhawan, the Architect…