Research

MIT Researchers Design One Of The Strongest, Lightest Materials

A team of researchers at MIT has designed one of the strongest lightweight materials known, by compressing and fusing flakes…

9 years ago

Look Up To Catch The Planets: Skywatching In 2017

Best Night Sky Events of January 2017 (Stargazing Maps) See what's up in the night skywatching for January 2017, including…

9 years ago

ISRO To Launch Record 83 Satellites In One Go In Jan

BENGALURU: ISRO today said it would launch a record 83 satellites in one go using its workhorse PSLV-C37 toward the…

9 years ago

Don’t Be Fooled by This Giant ‘Mech’ Robot

New video clips purporting to show a 13-foot-tall (4 meters) humanoid robot piloted by a person in its torso look…

9 years ago

The Robot Revival

Robots have long been a manufacturing mainstay—tasked with doing the heavy lifting on the assembly line or taking over tedious…

9 years ago

Canadian Students Rank Fourth For Science Performance

Canadian students are among the top performers in science, according to a new international ranking that shows a marked departure…

9 years ago

Space Ship Malfunctions, Breaks Up Over Siberia: Russia

An unmanned Russian cargo space ship heading to the International Space Station broke up in the atmosphere over Siberia on…

9 years ago

Mars And Snicker Bars Withdrawn As A Precaution From UAE Market

Saudi Arabia, a country regarded for its rich cultural history and good-sized deserts, has determined itself to be one of…

9 years ago

How To Win NASA’s $30,000 ‘Space Poop’ Challenge

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA's) is now turning into crowdsourcing to solve the "dirty" problem being faced by…

9 years ago

UAVs And Insect Cyborgs Collaborate To Map Disaster Zones

Robots don't always need to be built from scratch. In the case of "biobots", scientists have been able to hack…

9 years ago