 | Cauvery Supervisory Committee to review water position of the riverNew Delhi: The Cauvery Supervisory Committee on Wednesday will review the water position of the river. During the meeting in New Delhi, the position regarding storage and allocation will also be reviewed. The decision was made keeping in mind the poor ... |
 | Shenzhou-10: China launches next manned space missionThree astronauts blasted away from the Jiuquan base in Inner Mongolia on a Long March 2F rocket at 17:38 Beijing time (09:38 GMT). The commander, Nie Haisheng, and his crew, Zhang Xiaoguang and Wang Yaping, plan to spend just under two weeks at ... |
 | Kolkata to get Tagore CentreThree scientists and professors have set up a Tagore Centre of Natural Sciences and Philosophy in the city. The centre would enlighten students and enthusiasts with the bard's s passion for science. The centre plans to set up four schools - the school of ... |
 | Wanna be a ROBOT OVERLORD? Boffins pave way with mind-controlled cursorScientists have implanted electrodes in the brains of seven epileptic people in a bid to understand how humans learn new skills. They wanted to see what happened when people learned to use a device called a brain-computer interface, which allows them to ... |
 | Smallest galaxy sheds light on evolution of dark matter in UniverseAstronomers have discovered a strangely tiny galaxy in the Milky Way's neighborhood -- one with less than 1,000 stars held together by the smallest dark matter halo ever observed. The galaxy known as Segue 2, described in the Astrophysical Journal, might ... |
 | Is the US-China deal on curbing HFCs good for the climate?There has been a long-running global boom in sales of air conditioning and refrigeration equipment especially in countries with warmer climates like India. It is a reflection of growing economic clout, especially in many developing nations, where sales are ... |
 | Humans Reached South Asia After Major EruptionHumans didn't enter the Indian subcontinent until after the massive eruption of Mount Toba in Sumatra nearly 75,000 years ago, new research suggests — overturning a previous idea that humans arrived much earlier. The research, published today (June 10) ... |
![]() | 'Ice hovercraft' tracks seen on MarsLong thin grooves - called gullies - on the surface of Mars may have been made not by water but by blocks of frozen carbon dioxide - dry ice. These blocks seem to have flowed down Martian sand dunes on cushions of carbon dioxide gas. Researchers liken ... |
 | Black hole caught napping after mealA black hole 13 light-years away seems to have gone dormant, a decade after being spotted consuming cosmic debris. The black hole lies at the centre of the Sculptor galaxy, a so-called starburst galaxy where stars are being born at a prodigious rate. But the ... |