On February 4, 2024, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko has broken the world record for the most time spent in space, surpassing his compatriot Gennady Padalka. Kononenko has logged...
NASA has recently announced that its Mars robot helicopter Ingenuity, the first vehicle to achieve powered, controlled flight on another world, has been grounded for good after flying...
Researchers from various national and international organisations have discovered a new species of burrowing frog in Bengaluru. Named as ‘Sphaerotheca Varshaabhu’, this previously unknown species of frog has...
Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer affecting women in India. Each year, over 120,000 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer and over 75,000 die from the...
Most doctors practicing traditional Indian systems of medicine like Ayurveda, Unani or Siddha follow their own style for naming diseases and treatments. This makes it difficult for patients...
Researchers from the National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources (NBFGR) have discovered two new species of Congrid eels from the coasts of Tamil Nadu and Kerala. The species...
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has flagged off its advanced meteorological satellite INSAT-3DS to the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) in Sriharikota for an upcoming launch. The...
As per plans, every year on Ram Navami marking Lord Ram’s birth, the Ram Lalla deity in Ayodhya’s new Ram Mandir will receive a “Surya Tilak” – sunlight...
Americans will witness an exciting yet annoying event this year – a double cicada emergence happening after 221 years. Two cicada broods, XIII and XIX, will simultaneously explode...
A photographer has captured images of an extremely rare all-white Gentoo penguin in Chile’s Antarctic territory. The leucistic female penguin was filmed at the Gabriel Gonzalez Videla Base...
