SCIENCE & RESEARCH

IIT-Kharagpur researchers generate electricity from wet clothes

3:27 pm September 19, 2019

Kolkata: As part of an initiative to generate clean and sustainable power, researchers at IIT Kharagpur have developed a new technology to source electricity from clothes drying in open space, a statement here said on Thursday. The technology was recently tested at a remote village, where around 50 wet cloth items were put up for […]

‘NASA analysing images of Chandrayaan-2’s landing site’

1:37 pm September 19, 2019

Houston: NASA is analysing, validating and reviewing the images clicked by its lunar orbiter of the area on the Moon where India’s Chandrayaan-2 mission made an unsuccessful attempt to soft land its Vikram module, according to a media report that quoted a project scientist of the US space agency. NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft […]

NASA manager casts doubt on 2024 moon landing by astronauts

2:43 am September 19, 2019

CAPE CANAVERAL: A top NASA manager cast doubt Wednesday on the space agency’s ability to land astronauts on the moon by 2024. Kenneth Bowersox, acting associate administrator for human exploration and operations, told a Congressional subcommittee that NASA is doing its best to meet the White House-imposed deadline. But he noted: “I wouldn’t bet my […]

‘One of world’s oldest bird species discovered’

1:16 pm September 18, 2019

Melbourne: Scientists have discovered fossils of one of the world’s oldest bird species in New Zealand that lived about 62 million years ago, soon after the dinosaurs died. Bony-toothed birds (Pelagornithids), an ancient family of huge seafaring birds, were thought to have evolved in the Northern Hemisphere — but that theory has been upended by […]

Four astronauts identified for ISRO's Gaganyaan mission: Chief K Sivan

ISRO, DRDO sign MoUs for Gaganyaan mission

8:06 pm September 17, 2019

New Delhi: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Tuesday inked MoUs with the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) for development of human centric systems for the Gaganyaan project, the Defence Ministry said. Some of the critical technologies to be provided by the DRDO to ISRO include space food, space crew health monitoring and […]