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In this February 26, 2017 file photo, Katherine Johnson, the inspiration for the film Hidden Figures, poses in the press room at the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Johnson, a mathematician on early space missions who was portrayed in film about pioneering black female aerospace workers, died Monday, February 24, 2020. (AP)

Katherine Johnson, NASA’s pioneering mathematician dies at 101

She was a pioneering female aerospace worker whose life was celebrated in the film Hidden Figures

24 Feb 2020 9:30 PM

A man who has displayed mild symptoms of the COVID-19 coronavirus uses a laptop at an exhibition centre converted into a hospital in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province. AFP Photo

Patients with existing conditions most prone to die from COVID-19: Study

The novel Chinese coronavirus, or COVID-19, has so far killed over 1,800 individuals and infected more than 72,000 people

18 Feb 2020 5:58 PM

This illustration made available by NASA depicts the Solar Orbiter satellite in front of the Sun. On Sunday, Feb. 9, 2020, NASA and the European Space Agency have planned to launch the spacecraft on a mission to the sun to get close-up views of its polar regions. (AP)

Orbiter set to launch in mission to reveal Sun's secrets

This is the most ambitious exploration of the sun

10 Feb 2020 9:21 AM

A final decision on a name for virus is expected within days. (AFP)

WHO tiptoes around what to call virus. No, you can't call it Wuhan virus

The U.N. health agency does not use place names to identify viruses to avoid stigma

08 Feb 2020 10:56 AM

File photo of U.S. astronaut Christina Koch, member of the crew to the International Space Station (ISS), speaks with her relatives through a safety glass prior the launch of Soyuz MS-12 space ship at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. (AP)

Astronaut Christina Koch set to return after breaking spaceflight record

She also participated in the first-ever spacewalk by women

06 Feb 2020 9:29 AM

This illustration provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in January 2020 shows the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV). Health authorities are preparing for a possible pandemic as they work to contain a respiratory illness in China that's caused by a new virus. (AP)

You saw it on WhatsApp right? No, salt water is no good against coronavirus

Science is frantically trying everything, including anti-HIV drugs, against the dreaded virus

04 Feb 2020 2:39 PM

In this file photo takes in March 2019, US astronaut Christina Koch, member of the main crew of the expedition to the International Space Station (ISS), speaks with her relatives through a safety glass prior the launch of Soyuz MS-12 space ship at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. AP photo

Astronaut on longest spaceflight can't wait to eat salsa and chips

Nasa astronaut Christina Koch has been living on the International Space Station since March and returns to Earth on Feb. 6

29 Jan 2020 11:31 AM

The prototype oven which can be used in microgravity was designed and built by Nanoracks and Zero G Kitchen while the Double Tree by Hilton hotel chain supplied the raw cookie dough.

Another giant leap for mankind as astronauts bake first space cookies

The cookies returned to Earth on the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and will undergo testing by food scientists to determine if they are edible.

25 Jan 2020 11:12 AM

Gravity is the unseen force that dominates our entire lives. (Photo: ANI)

People perceive gravity through visual cues

A group of researchers used virtual reality (VR) based experiments to reach this fascinating conclusion.

25 Jan 2020 9:28 AM

The scientists from UT Southwestern Simmons Cancer Center found that another drug, already on the market, counters that resistance and blocks cancer.

New drug-duo to fight off cancer unveiled

In this study, patients' cancers were sequenced as the disease progressed during treatment.

25 Jan 2020 9:21 AM

It could be a major breakthrough in the development of new non-opioid, non-addictive pain management strategies for patients.

First successful treatment for pain using stem cells discovered

The next step for the researchers is to perform extensive safety tests in rodents.

25 Jan 2020 9:11 AM

The brain consists of around one hundred billion neurons.

Understanding highways of human brain

Myelin creates a coaxial cable producing multiple waves of electrical potentials travelling in a more complicated manner.

25 Jan 2020 9:03 AM

Is that you, Doc? Astronauts recommend diversity to ISRO.

Dear ISRO, do astronauts have to be fighter pilots? Why not a doctor?

Veteran astronauts from around the world advise ISRO to throw doors of its space mission wider open

23 Jan 2020 11:46 PM

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Decoded: How palm oil plantation contributes to global warming

The research, is the first to examine the three main greenhouse gas emissions across the different age stages of palm oil plantations

22 Jan 2020 1:14 PM

This study analysed mutation patterns within the vast non-coding regions of human DNA that control how and when genes are activated.

Research leads to connection between DNA alteration and cancer

A new study shows that there are regions of non-coding DNA that may have a connection to cancer growth and progression if altered.

20 Jan 2020 6:38 PM

The Philippines faces a waste crisis, with a report last year saying it uses a "shocking" amount of single-use plastic (Photo: AFP)

Filipinos turn volcano's ash, plastic trash into bricks

Ash spewed by a Philippine volcano is being mixed with plastic waste to make bricks in an inventive response to their persistent problem.

20 Jan 2020 3:49 PM

Pedestrians wear protective masks as they walk in a shopping district in Tokyo, Jan. 16, 2020. The outbreak of a mysterious SARS-like viral disease with symptoms of pneumonia has been traced to a new coronavirus spreading from the Chinese city of Wuhan. (AP)

Coronavirus: New disease spreading in Asia revives SARS fears

The outbreak has been traced to a seafood market in the Chinese city of Wuhan

20 Jan 2020 8:50 AM

Medics carry a patient into the Jinyintan hospital where patients infected by a mysterious SARS-like virus are being treated in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province on January 18, 2020. (AFP)

Doctors confirm false alarm over Indian teacher’s ailment in China

Diagnosis of Indian woman’s ailment shows her illness is not due to mystery virus sweeping China

19 Jan 2020 8:05 PM

Development of Indian science has been impeded by favouritism andn regionalism, says a paper presented at the Indian Social Science Congress.

Favouritism, regionalism did not spare even Nobel laureate C V Raman

Paper presented at Indian Social Science Congress says these twin blights have always impeded Indian science in its 150-year history

19 Jan 2020 11:12 AM

Since the city’s temperature has been warmer over the last few days the reptiles are coming out in the open to soak in the heat, he said.

Climate change alters body clock of snakes

Reptiles unusually looking for mates in winter

19 Jan 2020 1:42 AM

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