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NASA aims to return to the moon with crewed missions by 2024 under the program dubbed Artemis. (Photo: NASA)

US astronauts embark on the first all-female spacewalk

Christina Koch and Jessica Meir accomplished the much-anticipated milestone for NASA.

19 Oct 2019 9:44 AM IST

Currently, there are three main energy storage options: batteries, electrochemical capacitors and dielectric capacitors.

Answer to renewable energy lies in the art of croissant making

By pressing and folding a polymer film capacitor they were able to store 30 times more energy.

19 Oct 2019 9:14 AM IST

Antiheroes and morally ambiguous characters like Walter White were more complicated for people to rate on likability. (Photo: ANI)

People admire superheroes for these reasons

People best liked the heroes they rated as most moral, and least liked villains they rated as most immoral.

14 Oct 2019 8:04 AM IST

This study suggests that we are often ignoring our physical environment. (Photo: ANI)

Home designs speak about one's personality

Being in a certain location dramatically constrains or facilitates certain emotional experience.

14 Oct 2019 7:35 AM IST

SpaceX is working on a version of its Dragon capsule that will carry crew to the space station, perhaps as early as next year (Photo: AFP)

NASA aims for first manned SpaceX mission in first-quarter 2020

If all goes well, SpaceX's new Crew Dragon astronaut capsule will be ready for its first manned flight into orbit by...

12 Oct 2019 2:52 PM IST

By scanning the fragments where characters are visible, they hope to create a machine-learning algorithm that will decipher what is written on the scrolls. (Representational photo: Pixabay)

Light brighter than the sun to virtually decipher ancient scrolls

The items were examined at the Diamond Light Source facility in Oxfordshire, home to Britain's synchrotron.

3 Oct 2019 7:42 AM IST

Young women slept more than young men, and the former also went to sleep earlier.

Sleep varies by age, geographical location, gender

The shortest sleep was observed in Asian countries.

30 Sept 2019 7:41 PM IST

Working with Procter & Gamble in Newcastle, the team measured the release of plastic microfibres from polyester clothing for a range of cycles and water volumes.

Washing clothes in machines releases microfibres that ultimately reach...

800,000 more fibres were released in a delicate wash than a standard cycle.

30 Sept 2019 7:37 PM IST

Electric car maker Teslas CEO Elon Musk gives the opening keynote at the SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Jack Plunkett, File)

Elon Musk unveils new Mars rocket prototype, expects missions in...

Starship is the top half of Musk's colossal interplanetary rocket system that stands 387 feet tall.

30 Sept 2019 7:45 AM IST

The image reveals the black hole at the centre of Messier 87, a massive galaxy in the nearby Virgo galaxy cluster. This black hole resides about 54 million light-years from Earth. (Photo: AP)

A black hole rips apart an unfortunate star

The star, roughly the same size as our sun, was eventually sucked into oblivion in a rare cosmic occurrence.

30 Sept 2019 7:38 AM IST

The asteroid is named after the nymph Psyche who was married to Cupid. (Photo: NASA)

Distant asteroid calamity shaped life on Earth 466 million years ago

Dust spawned by a gigantic collision in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter 400 million years earlier triggered...

20 Sept 2019 9:04 AM IST

Evidence was first uncovered in 2008 in a cave in Siberia. (Representational Photo: Pixabay)

Scientists reconstruct skeleton of elusive, pre-historic human

Little is known about the Denisovans, who were ancient relatives of the more familiar Neanderthals and our own species.

20 Sept 2019 8:58 AM IST