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Scientists and engineers envision tiling the squares together like a quilt to make a complete sensor network.

NASA's 'sensory skin' can detect damages outside spacecraft

The new invention uses a series of several technologies to create circuits printed on thin layers

27 March 2017 8:27 AM IST

The star, GJ 536, is a red dwarf which is quite cool and near to our Sun, they said.

Super Earth' seen orbiting nearby star

During the research, a cycle of magnetic activity similar to that of the Sun has been observed, but with a shorter...

21 Nov 2016 7:13 AM IST

Previous studies had shown that neurotransmitter serotonin can drive fat loss.

Brain hormone that triggers fat burning found

Srinivasan and her colleagues experimented with roundworms called C elegans that are often used as model organisms in...

29 Jan 2017 5:28 AM IST

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Alien' insect discovered

Unusual, rare insect placed in new scientific order.

27 Jan 2017 4:09 AM IST

Scientists using Nasa telescopes have detected a strong water signature on Neptune-sized planet.

Signs of water spotted on Neptune-like planet

Finding can help understand birth of planetary systems.

13 May 2017 6:25 AM IST

Europes top physics lab CERN has launched a new particle accelerator to connect to its Large Hadron Collider proton smasher, in an attempt to uncover new particles and prove the existence of extra space-time dimensions (Photo: AFP)

Top lab CERN launches key new accelerator

The Linac 4 accelerator will by 2021 be connected to CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's most powerful...

10 May 2017 8:10 AM IST

The small-brained hominim could have lived the same time as the first modern humans in Africa (Photo: AFP)

Early humans co-existed in Africa with human-like species 300,000...

These treasure troves, some 50 km northwest of Johannesburg, have yielded pieces of the puzzle of human evolution for...

16 May 2017 2:22 AM IST

Mount Etna, in Sicily, is a test bed for the approximately three-foot high, four-wheeled machine ahead of a future mission to the moon. (Photo: screengrab)

Lunar robots put to the test on Europe's most active volcano

A robot wheels across a rocky, windswept landscape that looks like the surface of some distant planet from a science...

5 July 2017 7:54 AM IST

An experiment turned lab mice into super-eating machines, vigorously attacking food, bottle caps, and sticks as prey. (Photo: AFP)

US scientists activate predatory 'kill switch' in mice

The experiment turned the lab mice into super-eating machines, vigorously attacking food, bottle caps, and sticks as...

13 Jan 2017 8:57 AM IST

The most natural way to extract carbon from the air is to plant forests that absorb the gas as they grow. (representational image)

Scientists dim sunlight, suck up carbon dioxide to cool planet

Scientists are sucking carbon dioxide from the air with giant fans and preparing to release chemicals from a balloon.

27 July 2017 8:31 AM IST

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When scientists are irrational

Despite professing to be scientists many of them are subject to superstitions and beliefs in miracles performed by...

20 July 2017 2:19 AM IST

US President Barack Obama

Obama selects four Indian-Americans for Presidential awards

The four are part of a list of 102 recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers.

10 Jan 2017 12:04 PM IST