The warning in late 1992 had called on humankind to curtail environmental destruction and cautioned that “a great change in our stewardship of the Earth and the life on it is required, if vast human misery is to be avoided.”
Scientists have for the first time discovered a skeleton of ichthyosaur -in India.
It was a faint signal, but it told of one of the most violent acts in the universe, and it would soon reveal secrets of the cosmos, including how gold was created.
A team of scientists from IIT Kharagpur devised a wearable technology from silk protein fibroin.
An international team of astronomers has discovered a so-called "super-Earth" that could contain liquid water, a situation that would make it a very good candidate for harbouring life.
A team of scientists has developed the world’s strongest and high quality material graphene using soybean. Graphene is a carbon material that is one atom thick. Its thin composition and high conductivity means it is
The world's smallest pacemaker that is as a large vitamin capsule was successfully implanted for the first time in a patient in the US to restore the heart's normal rhythm, scientists say. The pacemaker is
Scientists have discovered a lost gigantic continent called Mauritia hidden beneath the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius. The piece of crust, which was subsequently covered by young lava during volcanic eruptions on the island, seems
A 100-million-year-old insect species with a triangular head has been discovered by a team of scientists at the Oregon State University. The features of the insect are so unusual that it has been placed in
Scientists have claimed that our closest neighbour Moon is 4.51 billion years old, and was born just 60 million years after the solar system first formed. The revelation has come through a new study
In a major scientific advancement, researchers have developed a mind-controlled mechanical hand that permits individuals with specific sorts of spinal injuries to perform regular tasks. The low-cost device was tested in Spain on six people
An inter-disciplinary research group comprising chemical engineers, bio-technologists and doctors at IIT Kharagpur have developed a therapeutic patch which is made of silk and embedded with honey.
In an attempt to better understand how fire behaves in microgravity to ensure better safety for astronauts, NASA scientists will soon ignite nine different materials aboard an unmanned spaceship on its way to a
A recent study by scientists in Germany have found the oldest evidence of life on land suggesting that life took birth on land as early as 3.2 billion years ago. The research led by Sami
For the first time, scientists have observed a weak atomic bond – in which an electron can grab and trap an atom – that was theorised 14 years ago. Researchers at Purdue University in the
The world’s largest and most sensitive cosmic ray monitor, located in India, has recorded a burst of galactic cosmic rays that indicates a crack in the Earth’s magnetic shield, which protects us from harmful radiation,
In endeavours to hunt down gamma-beam blasts, a square-shaped probe, dubbed "Little Bee" by Chinese scientists is currently searching for strongest explosion in the universe. The formal name of the probe, placed on Tiangong-2, is
A gathering of stargazers believe to have discovered an oldest known planet-shaping disk - a 45-million-year-old ring of gas and tidy that circles around a young star. Circumstellar disks around red dwarfs like this one
Offering a stunning look into the planet's climate, Nasa's Maven mission demonstrated an alternate Mars utilizing the shuttle's infrared camera catching the planet's bright shine. They include the first images of "nightglow" that can be
Authorities at West Australian beaches are all set to deploy drones for a three-month trial to help monitor shark activity and potentially spot other dangers such as rips and schools of bait fish, which attract
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