New app allows iPad users to click personal photos of space objects

Last Updated: Sunday, June 16, 2013, 12:25

A new iPad app has been developed, which allows people to click telescope images of celestial objects from the comfort of their couch.

How the brain tracks fast-moving tennis balls

Last Updated: Thursday, May 9, 2013, 18:47

For the first time, vision scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have pinpointed how the brain tracks fast-moving objects.

NASA unable to monitor hazardous asteroids

Last Updated: Wednesday, February 13, 2013, 20:08

A program set up by NASA to monitor "near-Earth objects" (NEO) a decade and a half ago has so far been able to track less than 10,000, which means that the vast majority of the asteroids are still hidden.

2,300-year-old Mayan objects found in Mexico

Last Updated: Saturday, December 8, 2012, 12:07

Mexican archaeologists have found handicrafts from the Mayan culture in the southeastern states of Yucatan and Campeche, notable among which are ceramics some 2,300 years old.

Why women are often subjected to sexual objectification

Last Updated: Thursday, July 26, 2012, 13:44

Our brains process images of men and females differently and see men as people and women as body parts, according to a new study.

Furiously burning first objects in universe captured by NASA`s Spitzer

Last Updated: Friday, June 8, 2012, 16:20

The faint, lumpy glow from the very first objects in the universe, which may have been detected with the best precision yet using NASA`s Spitzer Space Telescope.

Radical theory says `inanimate` objects also alive

Last Updated: Monday, January 30, 2012, 17:58

Even so-called inanimate matter -- DNA, water and planets included -- are all alive, asserts a revolutionary new theory.

Data on 200 million stars released

Last Updated: Friday, January 13, 2012, 19:04

Astronomers have released the largest data set ever collected on brightening and dimming of two hundred million of stars and other celestial objects.

New sonar detects concealed underwater objects

Last Updated: Friday, November 19, 2010, 18:23

Scientists developed a new kind of underwater sonar that can detect objects like reefs.

HC objects to Governor`s name being dragged in a petition

Last Updated: Monday, September 27, 2010, 22:30

Karnataka High Court on Monday objected to the name of Governor H R Bhardwaj being dragged in a PIL on the bill banning cow slaughter, in which he had been made the main respondent.

Vidarbha farmers` group objects to `Peepli Live`

Last Updated: Saturday, August 14, 2010, 15:26

A farmer`s advocacy group in Vidarbha has objected to the content of the just-released Hindi film ‘Peepli Live’, saying it is a wrong representation of the misery of the family members of farmers who committed suicide.