CAPE CANAVERAL: The first private space station crew was introduced Tuesday: Three men who are each paying $55 million to fly on a SpaceX rocket. They’ll be led by a former NASA astronaut now working for Axiom Space, the Houston …
New Delhi: The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) on Monday (January 25, 2021) conducted the successful maiden launch of the Akash-NG (New Generation) Missile from Integrated Test Range off the coast of Odisha. The Akash-NG is a new generation …
NEW YORK: People who recover from Covid-19 are protected against the novel coronavirus for at least six months, and likely much longer, according to a study which says the immune system evolves long after the infection and may block even …
LONDON: Researchers has demonstrated a decline in ‘son preference’ by women of childbearing age in Bangladesh. However, fertility decisions are still influenced according to son preference. The term ‘son preference’ refers to any situation where parents value sons over daughters …
WASHINGTON: Another detailed study by the American Association for the Advancement of Science asserts that the SARS-CoV-2 virus not only targets to enter the human cells but begin to replicate and spread as well. The findings also highlight that the …
BEIJING: Lunar rocks retrieved by a historic Chinese mission to the moon weighed less than initially targeted, but China is still willing to study the samples with foreign scientists, the mission’s spokesman said on Monday. China became the third country …
WASHINGTON: A new way to help the body’s immune system get past that deception and destroy cancer, has been found by a University of Missouri researcher. “Normally, your body’s immune cells are constantly on patrol to identify and destroy foreign …
CAMBRIDGE/UK: A team of scientists and doctors from the University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have developed a DNA test which they claim will quickly identify secondary infections in Covid-19 patients, who have double the risk …
Cape Canaveral: NASA has declared the Mars digger dead after failing to burrow deep into the red planet to take its temperature. Scientists in Germany spent two years trying to get their heat probe, dubbed the mole, to drill into …
BENGALURU: Prof Rohini Godbole from the Centre for High Energy Physics (CHEP) at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has been awarded the “Ordre National du Mérite”, or the National Order of Merit, considered among the highest distinctions bestowed by …