Flash floods killed a woman and forced evacuations as torrential rain drenched Australia’s battered city of Brisbane Thursday just days after it was hit by a violent storm, officials said. The 85-year-old died when she was trapped in her car as it was swept away by floodwaters east of the Queensland state capital, police said. […]
Bolivian farmer Primo Rivera had long wondered about the dents in a rocky hill near his home. Paleontologists solved the mystery this month: they are fossilized dinosaur footprints — the oldest in Bolivia. “I used to come to look at the prints when I was a kid … but I didn’t know what had made […]
The European Space Agency’s search for two people who will spend 105 days in an isolated chamber that will feature Earth-bound simulations of a Mars mission, has narrowed down to eight candidates.
The eight candidates […]
Two days before the launch of India’s first lunar orbiter, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) G. Madhavan Nair said Monday that India will plant its flag on the moon to help establish its presence on the earth’s only natural satellite.India will drop its flag on the moon to establish its presence, Nair […]
When a manned mission is finally sent to Mars, the whole world will be able to watch ‘live’ television coverage of the event, all thanks to CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation).
The US space agency NASA has announced that CSIRO research scientist, Dr John Bunton, is to receive a NASA Space Act Board Award […]
NASA engineers say they know how to fix the broken Hubble Space Telescope: They have to wake up computer parts that have been sleeping in space for more than 18 years.
On Wednesday, NASA will start a complicated remote-control fix of a major glitch that stopped the telescope from capturing and beaming down pictures. Hubble should […]
A Soyuz-FG carrier rocket lifted off Sunday from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan with a crew of three, one of them the sixth space tourist, to the International Space Station (ISS).The three-stage carrier rocket was launched at 11.01 a.m. Moscow time (701 GMT) as planned, with the Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft subsequently removing from the […]
Cells taken from men’s testicles seem as versatile as the stem cells derived from embryos, researchers reported on Wednesday in what may be yet another new approach in a burgeoning scientific field.
The new type of stem cells could be useful for growing personalised replacement tissues, according to a study in tomorrow’s issue of the journal […]
The National Institute of Technology, Warangal, ranked among the top 10 technology institutes in the country, will upgrade its facilities at a cost of Rs.1 billion, it was announced Friday.The institute, which is celebrating its golden jubilee, plans to establish state of the art e-class rooms, interactive lecture halls and new academic halls over the […]
Excitement is in the air in this spaceport of India ahead of the impending launch of India’s first unmanned lunar mission, Chandrayaan I which, ISRO says, was aimed at unravelling many secrets of the moon.
With the blast off scheduled just two weeks away, preparations are in full swing at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) […]