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Skeletal muscles use most of the glucose and if they develop insulin resistance and consequently are not able to use glucose, then diabetes likely will develop. (Photo: Pixabay)

Decades into diabetes, insulin therapy still hard to manage

The stage in which you become overtly insulin-deficient typically occurs about 10 years after the diagnosis.

4 July 2017 12:32 AM IST

Current scorpion-milking methods are either dangerous, unreliable or harmful to the animal. This robot milks the scorpions by clamping the tail and electrically stimulating the animal to express droplets of venom, which is then captured and safely stored.

New light, portable robot to extract scorpion venom

The scorpion-milking robot could replace the traditional manual method which can be potentially life-threatening,...

3 July 2017 1:50 PM IST

After Cyanogenmod shut down its operations, the phones stopped receiving software updates, letting its potential customers switch to other Chinese brands for better value. (image: Techradar)

New app improves memory in people with cognitive decline

A small trial found that patients who played the game had around a 40% improvement in memory scores.

3 July 2017 9:53 AM IST

Junos principal goal is to understand the origin and evolution of Jupiter. Underneath its dense cloud cover, Jupiter safeguards secrets to the fundamental processes and conditions that governed our solar system during its formation. As our primary example of a giant planet, Jupiter can also provide critical knowledge for understanding the planetary systems being discovered around other stars.

NASA's Juno probe set to fly over Jupiter's Great Red Spot

NASA's Juno spacecraft is set to fly directly over Jupiter's Great Red Spot on July 10.

3 July 2017 8:21 AM IST

The most advanced weather satellite ever built rocketed into space Saturday night, part of an $11 billion effort to revolutionize forecasting and save lives. (Photo: AP)

China's new heavy-lift rocket launch fails in flight

China's launch of a new heavy-lift rocket, carrying what the government said was its heaviest ever satellite, failed on...

3 July 2017 7:59 AM IST

NASA unveils stunning image of haze-covered Jupiter

The Gemini telescope is providing high-resolution images to help guide its exploration of the giant planet.

2 July 2017 8:49 PM IST

Apparently seaweed has been fed to cattle since farming began as cows would graze on the ones washed up on beaches.

Scientists developing heat-resistant 'cows of the future'

These genetically-modified 'cows of the future' will be more heat resistant and have superior ability to adapt to hot...

2 July 2017 3:34 PM IST

Humans are woefully unprepared for a surprise asteroid or comet, a NASA scientist warned.

NASA developing first asteroid deflection mission

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) is moving from concept development to preliminary design phase

2 July 2017 2:07 PM IST

One of the two silicon resonators (photo: PTB)

Here's what the world's sharpest laser looks like

The Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt has developed a laser with a linewidth of only 10 mHz.

2 July 2017 9:17 AM IST

SpaceX regularly launches unmanned cargo ships to the International Space Station, and is working on a crew capsule that could carry humans into orbit as early as next year (Photo: AFP)

United Launch Alliance beats SpaceX to win Air Force launch

The contact covers launch services for multiple satellites aboard an Atlas 5 rocket in June 2019.

1 July 2017 3:51 PM IST

Powders of tantalum nitride nanoparticles (left), tungsten oxide nanowires (centre) and the tantalum nitride/tungsten oxide composite (right). Credit: Daniel Jones/Swansea University.

New material removes water pollutants using solar energy

The novel, non-hazardous photo-catalytic material developed researchers at Swansea University adsorbs more than 90 per...

1 July 2017 3:49 PM IST

A forest fire in the Chandradrona Hill range has destroyed hundreds of acres of vegetation in the area, in Chikmagalur. (Photo: PTI)

NASA detects drop in forest fires worldwide

Across Africa, fires collectively burned an area about half the size of the continental US every year.

30 Jun 2017 6:37 PM IST