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World's most powerful rocket soars toward Mars, with a Tesla roadster as payload

The rocket is the first step in Musk's ambitious dream to send humans to Mars and establish a colony on the planet. IMAGE: SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket lifts off from historic launchpad 39-A at......

PM to scientists: Think big, think out of the box

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday inaugurated the 98th Indian Science Congress in Chennai. Following is the text of the Prime Minister's address on the occasion:"I am delighted to be here in......

NRI boy wins BBC's Junior Mastermind

A 10-year-old Indian boy has emerged as the youngest champion in the history of a BBC quiz show, Junior Mastermind. David Verghese, who made it to the BBC1 show finals sailing through the heats,......

China plans to build huge space solar power station

China plans to build a huge solar power station 36,000 kilometres above the ground in an attempt to battle smog, cut greenhouse gases and solve energy crisis, much on the lines of an idea first......

The application of three systems

Three is often the largest number written with as many lines as the number represents. To this day it is written as three vertical lines in Roman and Chinese numerals. This was the way the Indians......

Asia-Pac's 3G users to multiply

Asia-Pacific's 3G (third generation) market which has largely remained nascent up till 2005 is expected to exhibit strong growth on the heels of more advanced 3G markets such as South Korea, Hong......

A Swiss skunk

The Swiss are famous for several things -- cheese, watches and clocks, army-knives, secret bank accounts, chocolates, expensive pens. However, today they are probably the most famous for a formula......

The woman who creates robots

Watching the original Star Wars movie as a mathematically inclined 11-year-old, Helen Greiner dreamed of someday creating a robot like the heroic R2-D2.After enduring plenty of lean years chasing......

Get Your Dose Of K-Romance On OTT This Week

Pop stars, lawyers, cops, hoteliers, care to hear their story on OTT this week? Sukanya Verma shares her OTT recommendations for the week. Wham!Where to watch? NetflixLanguage: English......

When EATING Gave Nimrat SLEEPLESS NIGHTS

'I am greedy to have my eggs in different baskets.' IMAGE: Nimrat Kaur in Dasvi. Photograph: Kind courtesy Nimrat Kaur/ nstagram As Nimrat Kaur returns to the Indian screen in the role of a......

MISSION IIT. MURDERS. MIRACLES.

Murders, miracles, mission IIT, Sukanya Verma suggests everything you can catch on OTT this week. Only Murders in the BuildingWhere to watch? Disney HotstarLanguage? English Steven Martin,......

Review: In Time is out of sync

Preeti Arora feels the narrative of In Time never really develops into anything beyond what has already been established in the first 15 minutes.With a plot that would be completely at home among......

The man behind I, Robot

Before, much before we had satellites and digital images of Mars, the writers saw it coming.In the 1800s, Jules Verne wrote about rocket ships in From the Earth to the Moon. Everyone around smiled,......

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