The Goa government on Tuesday said that it will come up with a mobile application, which will be a common platform for the entire taxi industry in the state. Chief Minister Pramod Sawant held a meeting with State Tourism Minister Rohan Khaunte and State Transport Minister Mauvin Godinho to discussRead More

ISRO’s LVM3 being moved to the launch pad ahead of the launch of satellites on October 23. (Photo credit: PTI) The Indian Space Research Organisation ( ISRO ) in a nimble effort has moved swiftly to out-manoeuvre established Russian and American giants to grab commercial satellite launch opportunities. This gearsRead More

New Delhi: Many IT firms are now looking to go back to the work-from-office norm as the pandemic threat is receding. However, the employees now seem to not like it much. Most of the employees of leading IT services companies in the country are looking out for more flexible jobRead More

Riverside (California)[US], The residual pollutants from tobacco smoke that remain on surfaces and in dust after the tobacco has been smoked are referred to as thirdhand smoke (THS). It can linger for an indefinite period of time on indoor surfaces, exposing both smokers and nonsmokers to potentially harmful substances. ARead More

Warm-hot intergalactic medium observed between two colliding galaxy clusters. (Image credit: X-ray – NASA/CXC/CfA/A. Sarkar; Optical – NSF/NOIRLab/WIYN) A significant portion of the mass in the local universe has not been accounted for. About a third of the matter created after the Big Bang, has yet to be detected withinRead More

Washington [US], October 13 (ANI): Human and mouse neurons in a dish learned to play the video game Pong, researchers report. The experiments are evidence that even brain cells in a dish can exhibit inherent intelligence, modifying their behaviour over time. “From worms to flies to humans, neurons are theRead More

A NASA spacecraft that rammed into an asteroid did manage to alter the rock’s trajectory. The same idea could be used if an asteroid is ever on a collision course with Earth.The DART spacecraft that NASA deliberately crashed into an asteroid last month succeeded in forcing the rocky moonlet outRead More

The Terzan 1 globular cluster. (Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R Cohen) The Hubble Space Telescope has captured an image of the Terzan 1 globular star cluster, which is about 22,000 light-years from the Earth in the direction of the constellation of Scorpius, located in the southern celestial hemisphere. HubbleRead More

Maryland [US]: The arrangement of human retinal cell chromatin, the fibres that wrap 3 billion nucleotide-long DNA molecules into compact structures that fit into chromosomes within each cell’s nucleus, was mapped by National Eye Institute researchers. The resultant complete gene regulatory network sheds light on gene expression regulation in general,Read More

Tough time for employees working for Mark Zuckerberg headed Meta. According to media reports, Facebook’s parent company will fire around 12000 underperforming employees across teams. Just a couple of months ago, during the last Meta earnings call, Zuckerberg said that the social media platform is freezing hiring across the board.Read More