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While type 2 usually develops with age, a marked increase in the disease all across the world over past 50 years is still not clear (Photo: Pixabay)

New system may improve diagnoses of chronic diseases

The new system could make it less expensive to diagnose chronic diseases, particularly in remote areas without expensive...

14 Aug 2017 7:28 PM IST

Arctic sea ice, the vast sheath of frozen seawater floating on the Arctic Ocean and its neighbouring seas, has been hit with a double whammy over the past decades. (Representational Image)

Science Says: Fast-melting Arctic sign of bad global warming

The Arctic has already hit the danger mark of 3.6 degrees (6.5 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than normal.

14 Aug 2017 1:56 PM IST

This data file tells researchers what sequence their DNA had as well as the quality of the read (with E higher quality than A). The team demonstrated that it is possible to place malicious code in a strand of DNA that, when sequenced, could attack the software used for analysis. (Image: Dennis Wise/University of Washington)

Chinese quantum satellite sends 'unbreakable' code

This is the first time space-to-ground quantum key distribution technology has been realised.

14 Aug 2017 8:12 AM IST

The Falcon 9 SpaceX rocket lifts off from launch complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral. (Photo: AP)

SpaceX to launch super-computer to space

The super-computer will direct astronauts on future deep-space missions.

14 Aug 2017 7:50 AM IST

Earlier research showed that porcine endogenous retroviruses embedded in the pig genome may infect humans. But scientists have successfully eliminated the virus from pigs in a trial.

Scientists closer to cross-species transplant

Gene editing likely to pave way for pig to human organ transplants.

12 Aug 2017 2:21 AM IST

The Curiosity rover, seen here snapping a selfie in 2016, has turned its camera to the sky and taken some shots of fast-moving clouds in the Red Planets atmosphere (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)

Watch Martian clouds scoot, thanks to NASA's Curiosity

Researchers used Curiosity's Navigation Camera (Navcam) to take two sets of eight images of the sky on an early Martian...

11 Aug 2017 2:56 PM IST

A new engine being developed for NASA will use low-enriched uranium Cermet fuel rods (Credit: NASA)

NASA to revive Atomic Rocket program

NASA contracts with MWXT Nuclear Energy to Advance Nuclear Thermal Propulsion technology.

11 Aug 2017 2:16 PM IST

Kristi Curry Rodgers, a paleontologist at Macalester College who wasnt part of the study, praised the work as important. She said the fact that Patagotitans bones show signs that they havent completed their growth means that there are even bigger dinosaurs out there to discover. (Representational image/AP)

Meet the new heavyweight champion of dinosaurs: Patagotitan

A cast of the dinosaur's skeleton is already on display at the American Museum of Natural History.

11 Aug 2017 9:07 AM IST

A file photograph of the shower last year spotted near Mandya

Meteor for the starry madness

The Perseid Showers will make an appearance on the night of August 12 in India and Bengalurean star gazers are chuffed.

11 Aug 2017 1:54 AM IST

Among living primates, humans are most closely related to the apes, including chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans and gibbons, but little is known about their last common ancestor.(Image: Isaiah Nengo)

Scientists discover 13 million year old fossil skull of an infant ape

The fossil skull of the infant ape may reveal how the common ancestor of all living apes and humans looked like.

10 Aug 2017 4:51 PM IST

New measurements of lunar rocks have demonstrated that the ancient moon generated a dynamo magnetic field in its liquid metallic core (innermost red shell). The results raise the possibility of two different mechanisms one that may have driven an earlier, much stronger dynamo, and a second that kept the moons core simmering at a much slower boil toward the end of its lifetime. Image: Hern¡n Ca±ellas (provided by Benjamin Weiss)

Lunar dynamo's lifetime extended by at least 1 billion years

Findings suggest two mechanisms may have powered the moon's ancient churning, molten core.

10 Aug 2017 10:17 AM IST

This artists rendering shows Cassini as the spacecraft makes one of its final five dives through Saturns upper atmosphere in August and September 2017. (Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

Cassini to begin final five orbits around Saturn

Cassini will make the first of these five passes over Saturn at 12:22 a.m. EDT Monday, Aug. 14.

10 Aug 2017 8:06 AM IST