East Antarctica is sliding sideways

Last Updated: Thursday, December 12, 2013, 15:02

It`s official! East Antarctica is pushing West Antarctica around.

Dinosaur killing asteroid may have sent life to Mars

Last Updated: Thursday, December 12, 2013, 13:37

Researchers have said that the asteroid that was responsible for destroying dinosaurs may also have been capable of catapulting life to Mars and the moons of Jupiter.

How to distinguish between stars and brown dwarfs

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 10, 2013, 15:18

Researchers have found clear observational evidence for the theoretically predicted break between very low mass stars and brown dwarfs.

State university to come up at Maharaja Bir Bikram College

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 3, 2013, 18:21

A state university would be set up at the Maharaja Bir Bikram (MBB) College here to widen the scope for higher education, official sources said on Tuesday.

Soon, biomedical sensors to keep astronauts fit in space

Last Updated: Monday, December 2, 2013, 10:05

In an attempt to keep astronauts healthy in space, engineers from the Kansas State University are designing new tools and biomedical sensors for spacesuits.

Greenhouse gases allowed water to flow on ancient Mars

Last Updated: Monday, November 25, 2013, 20:13

Presence of molecular hydrogen, carbon dioxide and water on Mars may have created a greenhouse effect that pushed temperatures high enough to allow for liquid water 3.8 billion years ago, scientists have found.

Meet the dinosaur which terrorised tyrannosaurs

Last Updated: Saturday, November 23, 2013, 09:28

Palaeontologists on Friday announced they had uncovered the remains of one of the greatest land predators ever -- a nine-metre (30-foot) four-tonne dinosaur that stalked the planet 100 million years ago.

Meteorite found in the Sahara sheds light on Martian crust

Last Updated: Thursday, November 21, 2013, 11:40

A meteorite found in the Sahara last year by Bedouin tribesmen is a rock from Mars, revealing that the Red Planet`s crust formed 4.4 billion years ago, scientists reported on Wednesday.

Antarctica ice may contain tiny bubbles of air from 1.5 mn years ago

Last Updated: Tuesday, November 12, 2013, 14:01

A new research has suggested that tiny bubbles of air buried deep in the Eastern Antarctica ice may contain the Earth`s atmosphere as it was 1.5 million years.

Oysters may use sound to select home

Last Updated: Saturday, November 2, 2013, 11:33

Scientists have found that young oysters depend on the sound of the reef when deciding where to settle in for the rest of their lives.

US college to pay child sex abuse victims USD 60 million

Last Updated: Tuesday, October 29, 2013, 09:47

The settlement comes just over a year after former Penn State American football coach Sandusky was jailed for 30 to 60 years on 45 counts of child sex abuse.

Now, robotic cockroaches to explore hard-to-reach spaces

Last Updated: Thursday, October 17, 2013, 21:22

Scientists have developed a new software that allows them to map dangerous or unknown spaces - such as collapsed buildings - based on the movement of a swarm of insect cyborgs.