Washington NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity—which completed 5,000 Martian days—has spotted “rock stripes” on the red planet similar to those seen on some mountain slopes on Earth that result from repeated cycles of freezing and thawing of wet soil. However, the stripes might also be due to wind, downhill transport,Read More

London Scientists have confirmed the discovery of the most distant supernova ever detected—a huge cosmic explosion that took place 10.5 billion years ago, or three-quarters the age of the universe. A supernova is the explosion of a massive star at the end of its life cycle. The exploding star, namedRead More

Mumbai, Feb 19 Google Arts and Culture on Monday unveiled 10 3D-printed ceramic vases at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS) museum here to mark the culmination of its ‘Future Relics’ project — the first-ever lab experiment in India. The “Future Relics” project, which was announced in November 2017,Read More

New York A stroke in a baby—even a big one—may not have the same lasting impact as it could in an adult. Researchers have found that they regain language function in the “opposite side” of the brain if they experience a stroke around the time of birth. About one inRead More

Washington NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity—which completed 5,000 Martian days—has spotted “rock stripes” on the red planet similar to those seen on some mountain slopes on Earth that result from repeated cycles of freezing and thawing of wet soil. However, the stripes might also be due to wind, downhill transport,Read More

Brussels, February 17 A Belgian court has ordered Facebook to stop collecting data on users or face daily penalty of 2,50,000 euros. The court found the social media site guilty of breaching Belgium’s privacy laws, www.deredactie.be reported late Friday. The Belgian Commission for the Protection of Privacy (CPP) had takenRead More

London An international team of scientists have confirmed the discovery of nearly 100 new exoplanets—planets located outside our solar system. The discovery was based on data from the second mission of NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope or K2 released in 2014. K2 searches for exoplanet transits by registering dips in lightRead More

San Francisco, February 16 Apple has admitted that the iOS 11.2.5 has a serious bug which is capable of crashing apps and Apple devices via iMessage, saying that it was working on to fix it. The vulnerability was discovered earlier this week and involves sending an Indian language character (inRead More

Los Angeles NASA Hubble Space Telescope has captured Neptune’s mysterious dark storm that probably smells like rotten eggs, and is shrinking out of existence. Immense dark storms on Neptune were first discovered in the late 1980s by NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft, according to the Hubble team. Hubble found two darkRead More

San Francisco, February 15 In a clear message to news publishers, a top Facebook executive has emphasised that it is not their job to recruit people from media organisations for the content on the social media platform. At the “Code Media 2018” conference in California organised by the famous techRead More