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Astronauts can grow fresh food during space missions: Nasa

Nasa says lettuce grown in space as nutritious as ones on earth

8 March 2020 1:12 PM IST

A South Korean soldier adjusts his glasses as he sprays disinfectant on the street to help prevent the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus (AFP)Science
Potential drug target against coronavirus infection identified

The drug, used for pancreatic inflammation, is known to inhibit the protease that is essential for the virus’ entry...

6 March 2020 11:41 AM IST

South Korean soldiers wearing protective gears spray disinfectant as a precaution against the new coronavirus in Seoul, South Korea (AP)Science
Decontamination measures enough to prevent coronavirus

New research studies find environment as a potential medium of transmission for the virus

5 March 2020 12:36 PM IST

Prof Saibal Gupta of IIT-Kharagpur says a site in Kutch district of Gujarat could be the nearest thing to a clone of the Martian terrain.Science
The nearest thing to Martian terrain is a place in Kutch, Gujarat

The presence here of a rare mineral called Jarosite, also found on the surface of Mars, has scientists all excited

4 March 2020 3:20 PM IST

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Pfizer claims to have identified antiviral compounds for coronavirus...

Results from screening protocols are expected to be available by the end of March

3 March 2020 4:37 PM IST

Indonesia is now planning to build its first spaceport on a tropical island off the coast of easternmost Papua (AFP Photo)Science
Indonesia-'s space aspirations root for country-'s own...

The country-'s space agency is a relative minnow, dwarfed in Asia by counterparts in Japan, China and India

3 March 2020 4:12 PM IST

Stubble burning is the source of much of the pollution in Delhi and Punjab. (PTI)Science
From crop stubble to something useful, INST has the solution to...

Mohali-based nanoscience institute is working on ways to turn crop waste into bricks

3 March 2020 4:31 AM IST

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National Science Day: Do you know these Indian scientists?

The effect that brought India its first Nobel Prize in Physics and second Nobel Prize was based on the phenomenon of...

28 Feb 2020 12:35 PM IST

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)Science
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 IST

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 Chinas central Hubei province. AFP PhotoScience
Patients with existing conditions most prone to die from COVID-19:...

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

18 Feb 2020 5:58 PM IST

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)Science
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 IST

Sscientist is at work in the VirPath university laboratory, classified as \P3\ level of safety, on February 5, 2020 as they try to find an effective treatment against the new SARS-like coronavirus, which has already caused more than 560 deaths. - When most are busy developing vaccines or testing the few anti-virals available, VirPath will go after drugs used for diseases that have nothing to do with a respiratory infection such as 2019-nCoV. (Photo by JEFF PACHOUD / AFP)Science
WHO tiptoes around what to call virus. No, you can-'t call it Wuhan...

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

8 Feb 2020 10:56 AM IST

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