Not one but 13 asteroids will approach Earth this December but our planet will dodge each one of them. Some of these asteroids will come in contact with Earth's atmosphere and a few lucky ones among us will be able to witness them in the form of shooting stars.
"Not only in sports and culture Manipur has enough talent in science and technology too. Shri Irom Roshan Meitei, (21yrs) 1st yr student of ITI has successfully made a ROBOT which can communicate,
India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket would launch the country's latest spy satellite RISAT-2BR1 and nine foreign satellites on December 11, said the Indian space agency.
In a world-first, researchers have been able to produce pig-monkey hybrids in a Chinese laboratory, a media report said. Two piglets - having monkey tissues in their hearts, liver and skin - were born in the State Key Laboratory of Stem Cell and Reproductive Biology in Beijing but died within a week.
Rats are much more social than previously believed, according to a study which suggests they can use their fellow rodents as danger antennas, by being sensitive to the emotions of the rats around them.
SpaceX launched a 3-ton shipment to the International Space Station on Friday, including “mighty mice” for a muscle study, a robot sensitive to astronauts' emotions and a miniature version of a brewery's malt house.The Dragon capsule also is delivering holiday goodies for the six station residents.
The Arctic has warmed by 0.75 degrees Celsius in the last decade alone, whereas the Earth as a whole has warmed by nearly the same amount over the past 137 years, according to a study which examined the global consequences of continued polar warming. The study, published in the journal Science Advances, documented the effects of warming in the Arctic and Antarctic on wildlife, traditional human livelihoods, tundra vegetation, methane release, and loss of sea- and land ice.
According to the "first comprehensive" genetic map of the continent that included 598 genomes from India. There are at least 10 different ancestral groups or lineages in Asia.
Researchers have found that Saturn's largest moon Titan undergoes significant seasonal changes in its energy budget -- the amount of solar energy it absorbs, and the heat it emits -- an advance that may lead to new insights about climate fluctuations on the Earth.
NASA's Parker Solar Probe will sweep past Venus on December 26 for the second gravity-assist of the $1.5 billion mission and make its fourth close solar encounter in January.
NASA is attaching a "robot hotel" to the outside of the International Space Station with the upcoming launch of the Robotic Tool Stowage (RiTS), a protective storage unit for critical robotic tools.
India will put into orbit another of its sharp-eyed surveillance satellite RISAT-2BR1 with synthetic aperture radar on December 11, an Indian space agency official said on Tuesday.
"Make-up products used every day by millions of people in the UK are contaminated with potentially deadly bugs, such as E.coli and Staphylococci because most are not being cleaned and are used far beyond their expiry dates," said study lead author Amreen Bashir from Aston University in the US.
The first mosaic image of the likely crash site made from pictures taken by the LROC on September 17 was downloaded by several people to look for signs of the Vikram, NASA said.
NASA astronauts on Monday performed spacewalk outside the International Space Station. This spacewalk was a third in the series of spacewalks aimed at repairing the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, a cosmic ray detector.
The missile was inducted into the armed forces in June 2011. The missile has a strike range of 3,000 km to 5,000 km and is capable of carrying both conventional and nuclear warheads weighing up to 1.5 tonnes.
Fires in the Amazon rainforest are melting glaciers more than 2,000 kilometres away in the Andes mountain range in South America, according to a study.
The researchers, including Kang-Kuen Ni from Harvard University in the US, said at such intense cold -- 500 nanokelvin, or just a few millionths of a degree above the lowest possible temperature in the universe -- their reacting molecules slowed to glacial speeds.
Evidence is mounting that these events are more likely and more interconnected than was previously thought, leading to a possible domino effect, according to the scientists.
In his lab, Ma and University of Cincinnati senior research associate Anoop Sathyan are developing robotic networks that can work independently but collaborativly on a common task.
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