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A S Kiran Kumar, ISRO chief (Photo: AFP)

Dr. Kiran Kumar, Chairman, ISRO receives IESA Technovation Sarabhai...

Technovation awards recognize the best in ESDM sector for individual and corporate contribution

22 Feb 2017 4:26 PM IST

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Pizza Hut offers free pizzas to ISRO employees

Pizza Hut has given away pizzas worth Rs 6 lakh to over 2,000 ISRO employees till date.

22 Feb 2017 1:58 PM IST

Unlike the shocking images of country-sized garbage patches floating in the oceans, the microplastic particles that wash off textiles and roadways leave the waterways looking pristine. (Image: AFP)

Tiny plastic particles from clothing, tyres clogging oceans: report

IUCN is calling on the makers of tyres and clothing especially to shift their production methods and make products that...

22 Feb 2017 8:46 AM IST

A 13.6mm Vijayans Night Frog (Nyctibatrachus pulivijayani) pictured in Agasthyamala in the southern Indian state of Kerala, in a photo received from S.D. Biju on February 16, 2017 (Photo: AFP)

Scientists find four new miniature frog species in India

They also found three other species of night frogs, according to the report in the PeerJ medical sciences journal.

22 Feb 2017 8:40 AM IST

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Opportunity for more sustainable energy with new hydronium-ion battery

A new type of battery developed by scientists at Oregon State University shows promise for sustainable energy storage.

22 Feb 2017 8:19 AM IST

Solar nebula is a key stage during which much of the solar system evolution took shape. (Photo: NASA)

Why there are three different layers of iron in solar system?

One of the key to research Earth's differentiation period is studying variations in iron isotopes in samples of ancient...

22 Feb 2017 8:16 AM IST

SCMS students testing the ultrasonic sensor.

SCMS Water Institute brings sensor to rate water loss in transit

The total discharge at Ezhattumugham, where the right bank canal starts, was measured to be 4,700 litres per second

22 Feb 2017 2:18 AM IST

India which wants to ramp up the share of nuclear power from barely 3 percent to 25 percent by 2050 has been trying to assuage the fears of the nuclear suppliers (Photo: Pixabay)

Nuclear power could soon be harnessed from oceans

How practical this approach is depends on three main variables - how much uranyl sticks to the fibres.

21 Feb 2017 8:36 PM IST

In this Friday, Oct. 14, 2016 photo, an Orbital ATK Antares rocket carrying the Cygnus spacecraft is raised into the vertical position on launch Pad-0A at NASAs Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The Sunday, Oct. 16, 2016 scheduled cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station would be the companys first Antares launch since an explosion seconds after liftoff in 2014, which destroyed the rocket and space station supply ship, and damaged the launch complex. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)

NASA aims to measure vital snow data from satellites

NASA says the information is important because one-sixth of the world's population gets most of its water from melted...

21 Feb 2017 1:08 PM IST

A S Kiran Kumar, ISRO chief (Photo: AFP)

India can develop space station, says ISRO chief

ISRO displayed technological prowess last week by launching 104 satellites in a single mission.

21 Feb 2017 8:07 AM IST

NASA scientists discover ancient microbes that can survive on a diet of sulfite, manganese and copper oxide in the Naica mine in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua.

60,000-year-old microbes found in Mexican mine: NASA scientist

These strange ancient microbes have apparently evolved so they can survive on a diet of sulfite, manganese and copper...

21 Feb 2017 7:49 AM IST

Nasas competition was aimed at finding a safe, medically sound solution for taking waste away from astronauts bodies if confined for long.

Astronauts can poop in spacesuit

Three win Nasa's Space Poop Challenge.

21 Feb 2017 12:48 AM IST