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Peggy Whitson will be 56 when she rockets off the planet Thursday, and shell celebrate her 57th birthday in February on the International Space Station. (Photo:AP)

NASA's Peggy Whitson takes command of space station

For Whitson, 57, it was her second stint in charge of the $100 billion station, a multinational project.

10 April 2017 8:38 AM IST

India has made a commitment to rapidly scale up its renewable energy targets by 2030.

Green: Sunny days ahead for clean energy

The kind of power a country uses determines its progress and advancement as a nation.

10 April 2017 2:49 AM IST

A decellularised spinach leaf that successfully pumped a red dye through its veins, simulating blood, oxygen and nutrients. (Courtesy: Worcester Polytechnic Institute.)

Science: Making Popeyes of heart

Spinach leaves may offer the branching network of arteries and veins to feed artificial organs.

10 April 2017 2:35 AM IST

Ekaterina Dmitriev

Reliving the space odessey

The UN General Assembly declared April 12 as the International Day of Human Space Flight.

10 April 2017 12:18 AM IST

Putting crews into suspended animation for long space flights has long been a fanciful sci-fi staple, but research could be turning it into reality for missions to Mars. (Photo: AFP)

A ticket to Mars could cost $200,000 per person

SpaceX says its recycled rocket will help it blast humans to Mars.

9 April 2017 3:18 PM IST

Assam scientist leads breakthrough research on black holes

With the help of the NASA's Hubble Space telescope, the team of researchers discovered breakthrough result on black...

9 April 2017 1:02 PM IST

UW scientists are combining theory with experiment to try to understand how life could arise from lifelike chemical reactions under the right conditions. â€œIf we find many different chemistries supporting lifelike reactions, we can expect more origins of life elsewhere in the universe,â€says botany Professor David Baum.

Experiments test how easy life itself might be

Combining theory with experiment, University of WisconsinMadison scientists are trying to understand how life can arise...

9 April 2017 8:34 AM IST

Research shows that the eyesight of bees is 30% better than previously thought, on top of being able to see colours

Bees can see much better than thought: scientists

Researchers already knew bees could see colours, but now they have discovered their vision is 30 % clearer than earlier...

8 April 2017 8:12 PM IST

A small asteroid has been discovered by NASA scientists in an orbit around the Sun. (Representational Image)

Large asteroid to buzz past Earth on April 19: NASA

The asteroid will approach Earth from the direction of the Sun and will become visible in the night sky after April 19.

8 April 2017 5:13 PM IST

Jupiter is over five times more distant from the Sun, and yet its upper atmosphere has temperatures.

Hubble telescope beams back close-up of Jupiter

The new image adds to many others captured in the past

8 April 2017 12:06 PM IST

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, in a horizontal position (Photo: Reuters)

Air Force space chief open to flying on recycled SpaceX rockets

The US Air Force is open to buying rides on previously flown SpaceX rockets to put military satellites into orbit

8 April 2017 9:14 AM IST

The mesentery, which connects the intestine to the abdomen, had for hundreds of years been considered a fragmented structure made up of multiple separate parts. (Credit: YouTube)

Karnataka: Rare intestine transplant puts 45-yr-old on his feet

The operation was successfully completed at a hospital in Davangere.

8 April 2017 4:21 AM IST