Scientists

An international team of astronomers led by University of Hertfordshire have found 60 new planets, orbiting stars that are close to Earth’s solar system. The team of scientists found evidence of a further 54 planets – bringing the total…

Washington, March 10: Future Mars exploration has got a date, finally. NASA's new InSight mission set to study the deep interior of Red Planet is targeting a new launch window that begins on May 5, 2018, with a Mars landing scheduled for…

President Obama has named 106 researchers, including six of Indian origin, as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, the highest US government honour for young independent researchers. The…

Confirming a major prediction of Albert Einstein's 1915 general theory of relativity, scientists have, for the first time, observed gravitional waves, or ripples in the fabric of spacetime, arriving at Earth from a cataclysmic event in the…

Washington, Jan 16: Indian-American professor Dr. Rakesh K. Jain and 16 other scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and innovators will receive the National Medals of Science and Technology and Innovation from President Barack Obama next…

Washington, Nov 17: In a first, researchers from the University of Washington have refrigerated water and other liquids with laser under real-world conditions. Since the first laser was invented in 1960, those concentrated beams of light…

Washington, May 27 (IANS/EFE): Scientists have found a protein that acts like a "key" allowing the Ebola virus to infect cells, according to an article published in the journal mBio. A study by a group of scientists from the Albert…

An Indian-origin scientist with the University of California at Berkeley was involved in growing a viable, pulsating heart on a microchip to improve drug screening. It is the latest human organ, after a lung, a liver and a piece of…