Washington: Researchers have developed a new generation of two-tailed robots that are driven by light-activated muscule tissue — an advance that brings engineers a step closer to building…

Bengaluru: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Tuesday thanked Indians in the country and abroad for the support it received after the space agency lost contact with…

Berlin: Scientists have trained rats to play hide and seek with humans, an advance that paves the way for studying the neurobiology of playful behaviour in animals. The…

Boston: Scientists at MIT claim to have developed a material that is 10 times blacker than anything that has previously been reported. The material is made from vertically…

Cape Canaveral: The solar system may have another foreign guest. NASA and the European Space Agency say a newly discovered comet zooming toward the sun is likely from…

Boston: Researchers have, for the first time, detected the gravitational waves from a newly born black hole, and found that the ringing pattern of the waves predicts the…

Paris: Water has been discovered for the first time in the atmosphere of an exoplanet with Earth-like temperatures that could support life as we know it, scientists revealed…

New Delhi: Apple enthusiasts will be able to get their hands on the latest line-up of iPhones – iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max,…

Houston: The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs about 65 million years ago slammed into the Earth with the equivalent power of 10 billion atomic bombs, charred trees…

San Francisco: Apple is expected to unveil three new iPhone models that are so similar to last year’s lineup, they may be upstaged by details about the company’s…

Washington: NASA has lauded India’s historic Chandrayaan-2 mission, saying the Indian Space Research Organisation’s attempt to soft-land Vikram module on the lunar South Pole has “inspired” it and…

Washington: Popular online reference website Wikipedia went down in several countries after the website was targeted by what it described as a “malicious attack”. The server of the…

New Delhi: The success ratio of lunar missions undertaken in the last six decades is 60 per cent, according to US space agency NASA’s ‘Moon Fact Sheet’. Of…

San Francisco: Google said Friday it was banning online ads for unproven medical treatments including most stem cell and gene therapy. “This new policy will prohibit ads selling…

Beijing: Seven months after Huang Yu’s pet cat Garlic died, the British shorthair was given a 10th life. Born on July 21, the new Garlic was created by…

Bengaluru: ISRO on Sunday said it has successfully performed the fifth and final lunar bound orbit manoeuvre for the Chandrayaan 2 spacecraft and was gearing up for separation…

New Delhi: Apple plans to set up up to three brick-and-mortar outlets in India besides an online store as the iPhone maker looks to further cement its position…

New Delhi: h giant Google on Saturday said it has signed a statement of intent with the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) for rolling out ‘Build for…

New Delhi: Internet giant Google on Saturday marked the 100th birth anniversary of celebrated poet and author Amrita Pritam with a special doodle tribute that had a touch…

Washington: Like size or intelligence, sexual attraction isn’t defined by one gene alone, but is instead the result of the complex interplay between multiple regions of the genome…