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Almost 71 percent of the female traffic comes from smartphones and the other nine percent through other devices like personal computers and tablets. (Photo: AFP)

New app improves memory in people with cognitive decline

A small trial found that patients who played the game had around a 40% improvement in memory scores.

3 July 2017 9:52 AM IST

Junos principal goal is to understand the origin and evolution of Jupiter. Underneath its dense cloud cover, Jupiter safeguards secrets to the fundamental processes and conditions that governed our solar system during its formation. As our primary example of a giant planet, Jupiter can also provide critical knowledge for understanding the planetary systems being discovered around other stars. (All images - Source - NASA)

NASA's Juno probe set to fly over Jupiter's Great Red Spot

NASA's Juno spacecraft is set to fly directly over Jupiter's Great Red Spot on July 10.

3 July 2017 8:16 AM IST

ISROs heaviest rocket GSLV Mk-III, carrying communication satellite GSAT-19, takes off from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota on Monday. (Photo: AP)

China's new heavy-lift rocket launch fails in flight

China's launch of a new heavy-lift rocket, carrying what the government said was its heaviest ever satellite, failed on...

3 July 2017 7:43 AM IST

The study was published in the journal Cancer Cell.

Hyderabad scientists spot cancer cell split

Research will help discover sites which can be targeted by drugs.

3 July 2017 1:35 AM IST

NASA unveils stunning image of haze-covered Jupiter

The Gemini telescope is providing high-resolution images to help guide its exploration of the giant planet.

2 July 2017 8:48 PM IST

Cows are one of the largest sources of man-caused methane. (Photo: Pixabay)

Scientists developing heat-resistant 'cows of the future'

These genetically-modified 'cows of the future' will be more heat resistant and have superior ability to adapt to hot...

2 July 2017 3:34 PM IST

The mission will take seven years, from Thursday nights planned liftoff from Cape Canaveral to the return of the asteroid samples in 2023, and cover an incredible 4 billion miles (6 Â½ billion kilometers) through space. (Representational image)

NASA developing first asteroid deflection mission

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) is moving from concept development to preliminary design phase

2 July 2017 2:07 PM IST

One of the two silicon resonators (photo: PTB)

Researchers develop the sharpest laser in the world

The Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt has developed a laser with a linewidth of only 10 mHz.

2 July 2017 9:16 AM IST

Powders of tantalum nitride nanoparticles (left), tungsten oxide nanowires (centre) and the tantalum nitride/tungsten oxide composite (right). Credit: Daniel Jones/Swansea University.

New material removes water pollutants using solar energy

The novel, non-hazardous photo-catalytic material developed researchers at Swansea University adsorbs more than 90 per...

1 July 2017 3:20 PM IST

SpaceX regularly launches unmanned cargo ships to the International Space Station, and is working on a crew capsule that could carry humans into orbit as early as next year (Photo: AFP)

United Launch Alliance beats SpaceX to win Air Force launch

The contact covers launch services for multiple satellites aboard an Atlas 5 rocket in June 2019.

1 July 2017 8:16 AM IST

Pyrosomes colonies of thousands of individual organisms called zooids are pictured aboard a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration research vessel in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Oregon in this May 2017 handout photo obtained. Hilarie Sorensen/NOAA Fisheries

Jellied sea creatures confound scientists, fishermen on US Pacific...

Known as pyrosomes, they are tubular colonies of hundreds or thousands of tiny individual creatures called zooids.

1 July 2017 8:13 AM IST

A raging forest fire in central Portugal killed at least 62 people as they desperately tried to flee, charring cars and trucks as it swept over roads.

NASA detects drop in forest fires worldwide

Across Africa, fires collectively burned an area about half the size of the continental US every year.

30 Jun 2017 6:36 PM IST