SCIENCE & RESEARCH

China spacecraft enters Mars orbit, 2nd in 2 days after UAE

10:27 pm February 10, 2021

Beijing: A Chinese spacecraft entered Mars orbit on Wednesday on a mission to land a rover and collect data on underground water and possible signs of ancient life, state media said. “China‘s probe Tianwen-1 successfully entered the orbit around Mars on Wednesday after a nearly seven-month voyage from Earth,” the Xinhua News Agency said in […]

Immune system’s T cells can mount attacks against many targets on coronavirus: Study

3:19 pm January 28, 2021

Los Angeles: The immune system’s T cells target a ”broad range of sites” on the novel coronavirus, not just the spike protein which enables it to infect hosts, suggests a new study which says this may help the body counter variants of the virus. The research, published in the journal Cell Reports Medicine, assessed T cells […]

Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

Scientists produce electron gas with ultra-high mobility: DST

11:33 pm January 12, 2021

New Delhi: Scientists at the Institute of Nano Science and Technology have produced electron gas with ultra-high mobility, which can speed up transfer of quantum information and signal from one part of a device to another, and increase data storage and memory, the Department of Science and Technology said on Tuesday. The need for attaining new functionalities in modern […]

IIT Guwahati researchers find new clues to how and why stars die

2:49 pm January 12, 2021

New Delhi : Researchers at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati, claim to have found important clues to understand the death of massive stars and have also revealed the problems with the existing models. The research in collaboration with Max Planck Institute for Physics, Munich, Germany, and Northwestern University, USA, has also been published in international journal Physical Review Letters (PRL). ”Supernovae — the […]

Top ISRO scientist claims he was poisoned three years ago

11:55 pm January 5, 2021

Bengaluru: A top ISRO scientist on Tuesday claimed he was poisoned more than three years ago. Tapan Misra alleged he was poisoned with deadly arsenic trioxide on May 23, 2017, during a promotion interview at ISRO headquarters here. ”Fatal dose was probably mixed” with chutney along with Dosa, in snacks after lunch, he said. Misra is presently working […]