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]Let's count world’s ants: 20,000,000,000,000,000 are on Earth weighing around…
Published on Sep 26, 2022 10:40 AM IST
Ants On Earth: Estimating ant numbers and mass provides an important baseline from which to monitor ant populations amid worrying environmental changes.
PTI |
Mysterious ripples in milky way due to a dwarf galaxy: Study
In a new study published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, the research team presents their findings about the stars in the outer regions of the galactic disk.
Published on Sep 25, 2022 06:19 AM IST
ANI | | Posted by Nisha Anand
NASA scraps Artemis-I Moon launch as storm Ian to intensify at launch centre
The US National Hurricane Center said Ian is due to "rapidly intensify" over the weekend as it moves toward Florida, home to the Kennedy Space Center, from which the rocket is set to launch.
Published on Sep 24, 2022 09:35 PM IST
AFP | | Posted by Lingamgunta Nirmitha Rao
Jupiter's closest approach to Earth in 59 years. NASA gives details
Jupiter will be approximately 590 million-km distant from Earth at the moment, as it was in 1963. At its farthest, Jupiter is over 965 million-km away from Earth.
Published on Sep 24, 2022 06:38 PM IST
Kanishka Singharia | Edited by Sohini Goswami
What are microprocessor-controlled knees? ISRO develops artificial limbs| Top 5
These microprocessor-controlled knees are expected to be about 10 times cheaper.
Published on Sep 23, 2022 05:10 PM IST
NASA spacecraft to crash into an asteroid on purpose. Here's why
Dart will hit an asteroid on Monday to nudge the asteroid into a slightly tighter orbit around its companion space rock — demonstrating that if a killer asteroid ever heads our way, we’d stand a fighting chance of diverting it.
Updated on Sep 26, 2022 03:38 PM IST
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Babies in the womb react differently to flavours: researchers
Researchers at Durham University in northeast England said the findings were the first direct evidence that babies react differently to various smells and tastes before they are born.
Updated on Sep 22, 2022 01:03 PM IST
AFP |
NASA's Webb Telescope captures clearest view of Neptune's rings after 33 years
The image taken by Webb Telescope is exemplary as it shows the clearest view of Neptune’s rings after over three decades. In 1989, Nasa’s Voyager 2 became the first spacecraft to capture the image of Neptune.
Updated on Sep 22, 2022 09:27 AM IST
Singh Rahul Sunilkumar | Edited by Aryan Prakash
ISRO successfully tests hybrid motor aiming new propulsion system for rockets
A hybrid motor uses solid fuel and liquid oxidiser unlike solid-solid or liquid-liquid combinations.
Published on Sep 21, 2022 02:41 PM IST
PTI | | Posted by Lingamgunta Nirmitha Rao
Opium traces dating back to 14th century BC found in ancient grave in Israel
Discovered in a 2012 excavation in Tel Yehud in central Israel, the Late Bronze Age vessels, shaped like upside-down poppy flowers, were found at Canaanite graves.
Published on Sep 20, 2022 05:28 PM IST
Reuters |
Sound on! NASA lander captures impact as space rocks hit Mars. Then a question
InSight lander has caught the impact of Marsquakes. This is as interesting as it gets.
Published on Sep 20, 2022 06:17 AM IST
Swati Bhasin, New Delhi
A new planet in the universe? Study finds evidence
Currently, astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have created a novel method to find these elusive newborn planets, along with "smoking gun" proof of a small Neptune or Saturn-like planet hiding in a disc.
Published on Sep 19, 2022 07:14 PM IST
ANI |
Chinese astronauts take their second spacewalk from new space station
China is building its own space station after being excluded by the U.S. from the International Space Station because its military runs the country's space program.
Published on Sep 17, 2022 07:19 PM IST
AP | | Posted by Nisha Anand
NASA's perseverance rover investigates geologically rich Mars terrain
The rover has collected four samples from an ancient river delta in the Red Planet's Jezero Crater since July 7, bringing the total count of scientifically compelling rock samples to 12.
Published on Sep 15, 2022 10:56 PM IST
ANI |
NASA delays launch of Artemis 1 Moon rocket, again | 5 points on the 3rd attempt
After two failed attempts, all eyes will now be on September 27 to see if the third time’s a charm for NASA.
Updated on Sep 13, 2022 07:15 AM IST
Study reveals many exoplanets made of water and rock around small stars
Thanks to better telescope instruments, scientists are finding signs of more and more planets in distant solar systems. A larger sample size helps scientists identify demographic patterns similar to how looking at the population of an entire town can reveal trends that are hard to see at an individual level.
Published on Sep 12, 2022 06:16 PM IST
ANI | | Posted by Yagya Sharma
Did late cretaceous host icy conditions in Antarctica? Scientists answer
In their spectroscopic analysis of the samples, the researchers determined that while some of the water indeed originated with magma as it plumed upward from Earth's interior, as the molten rock cooled into glass just beneath the Earth's surface, it also incorporated groundwater.
Published on Sep 12, 2022 05:32 PM IST
ANI | | Posted by Yagya Sharma
On Kennedy's moonshot speech anniversary, Biden to push fight against cancer
In 2022, the American Cancer Society estimates, 1.9 million new cancer cases will be diagnosed and 609,360 people will die of cancer diseases.
Published on Sep 12, 2022 10:59 AM IST
AP | | Posted by Yagya Sharma
Scientists discover how air pollution triggers lung cancer
The research illustrated the health risk posed by the tiny particles produced by burning fossil fuels, sparking fresh calls for more urgent action to combat climate change.
Published on Sep 10, 2022 08:35 PM IST
AFP |
Life beyond earth? Water-rich planets discovered outside our solar system
As water is considered as the prerequisite for life, this new founding of water-rich exoplanets is tantalising the astronomers in the hope of a life beyond Earth.
Published on Sep 10, 2022 03:04 PM IST
Singh Rahul Sunilkumar | Edited by Aryan Prakash
Hubble finds spiralling stars, may provide insights into formation of Universe
Nasa says that by learning the star formation in this cloud can give insight into the occurrence of a firestorm of star birth early in the universe’s history, when the universe was still in the baby boom stage just after 2 to 3 billion years of the big bang.
Updated on Sep 10, 2022 01:15 PM IST
‘Pure astonishment’: Female ‘vampire’ skeleton in Poland shocks researchers
Female Vampire Skeleton Poland: ‘Pure astonishment’: Female ‘vampire’ skeleton in Poland shocks researchers
Updated on Sep 09, 2022 12:14 PM IST
World's earliest evidence of a successful surgery, from a 31,000-year-old grave
World's Earliest Successful Surgery: The skeleton was found in the caves of East Kalimantan, Borneo that date back to 40,000 years ago and were first discovered in 2018.
Published on Sep 08, 2022 02:07 PM IST
Video: The Titanic, in stunning never-seen-before ‘phenomenal colours’
Titanic Wreck: The Titanic sank after hitting an iceberg on the night of April 15, 1912. Many expeditions tried to map the sea bed in the hope of finding the ship, but were unsuccessful.
Published on Sep 08, 2022 12:27 PM IST
Use of new classes of antibiotics in India disproportionately high: Lancet study
About 47 per cent of the formulations sold in the private sector in 2019 were not approved, the researchers have highlighted.
Published on Sep 08, 2022 07:57 AM IST
Some chimpanzees are rock drummers, some jazz, study shows. We're amused too
The drumming allows the chimps to even spread information over long distances, revealing who is where, and what they are doing, the study said.
Published on Sep 07, 2022 04:38 PM IST
Coating could be a game changer to kill Covid virus, germs in minutes: Study
It killed 99.9% of microbes even after months of repeated cleaning, abrasion and other punishment on real-world surfaces like keyboards, cell phone screens and chicken-slathered cutting boards.
Published on Sep 06, 2022 06:35 AM IST
ANI | | Posted by Yagya Sharma
Potential treatment for binge eating disorder is deep brain stimulation: Study
During this six-month interval, the patients reported sharp reductions in their feelings of loss-of-control, and in the frequencies of their bingeing episodes -- each also lost more than 11 pounds. One of the subjects improved so much that she no longer met criteria for binge-eating disorder.
Published on Sep 05, 2022 06:53 AM IST
ANI | | Posted by Yagya Sharma
‘Work from home’ hinders creativity and innovation, claims study
The study tries to scientifically address the question of what got lost when Covid-19 forced us to work in a virtual setup, replacing a physical workplace.
Updated on Sep 04, 2022 12:41 PM IST
