Civil Aviation Minister says speculation on the causes of the accident at Kozhikode is “inappropriate and wrong”
Space Earth’s bigger, older cousin ON July 23, NASA announced that its Kepler mission had found the first near-earth-size ...
Physics Pentaquark seen at CERN ON July 14, the LHCb experiment at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research’s (CERN) ...
Physics Preventing beam buckling SLENDER beams used as structural elements can buckle when compressed, which could lead to ...
Black arsenic phosphorus FOR many decades, silicon has formed the basis of modern electronics. But the size of ...
Pluto revelations NINE years ago, as part of its New Frontiers Programme, the National Aeronautics and Space ...
Intense rainfall & global warming RECORD-BREAKING heavy rainfall events, which result in high-impact flooding events, have ...
LNMO batteries WHILE the cathode materials in most of today’s lithium-ion batteries operate at a maximum ...
Genomes Problem put to rest Comparing the genomes of different species,or different members of the same species,is the ...
Computing A brain-like computer Researchers have built a prototype of a computer called a memcomputer that works by ...
Material Science To conduct or to insulate? A new study has discovered mysterious behaviour of a material that acts like an insulator ...
Space Methane in Mars The presence of methane in the Martian atmosphere has been one of the exciting ...
Abel Prize Two beautiful minds The American mathematicians John Nash Jr and Louis Nirenberg win the 2015 Abel Prize for ...
Palaeontology Brontosaurus is back! BRONTOSAURUS (the “thunder lizard”), thanks to its size, shape and evocative name, has ...
Technology Putting out fire with bass TWO final year engineering undergraduate students at George Mason University, U.S., Seth ...
Medicine From disease to epidemic THE onset of an epidemic depends on many factors, including the ease of contact that ...
Solar system Saturn’s rotation speed DETERMINING the speed of rotation of solid planets, like the earth and Mars, is ...
Universe Generating stars STARS form when intergalactic gas cools rapidly and condenses, which then collapses to ...
Biology How chameleons change colour CHAMELEON colours are not just for camouflage. Many chameleons, panther chameleons ...
Particle physics Delay in LHC restart A SNAG may delay the start of Run 2 of the large Hadron Collider (LHC), the particle ...
Interview: Carl Haber Seeing voices Interview with Carl Haber, a senior scientist in the Physics Division of Lawrence Berkeley ...
Global warming Double paradox in Antarctica RISING temperatures due to global warming might result in more snowfall in Antarctica. A ...
Superconductor Unexpected superconductor RESEARCHERS have discovered the first manganese-based superconductor, a compound whose ...
Mars ISRO’s Mars images EARLY this month, the Indian Space Research Organisation released some spectacular images ...
Physics Unchanged in over 12 billion years OBSERVATIONS of a distant quasar have revealed that the mass ratio of the proton to the ...
