Scientists have shown that a variation in the genome of the novel coronavirus has improved its ability to infect human cells, and has helped it become the dominant strain circulating around the......
But it did not have a protective magnetic field to shield the surface from ionising radiation. NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has discovered high levels of manganese oxides in Martian rocks,......
NASA's Mars rover 'Curiosity' has fired its laser for the first time on the red planet, using the beam from a science instrument to interrogate a fist-size rock. The mission's Chemistry and Camera......
India-born Noshir Gowadia, a former engineer of B-2 stealth bomber accused of selling sensitive American defence technology to China for its cruise missiles for $110,000, will face trial in a US......
China had tested for Pakistan its first nuclear bomb as early as in 1990, enabling Islamabad to respond within weeks to the Indian atomic tests eight years later, a top US nuclear expert has......
Supercomputers are super achievers, giving highest and most enviable performance at any given time. Cray 1, released in 1975, is considered to be the first real supercomputer. Supercomputers were......
Scientists led by a 30-year-old Indian American have amazed the computing industry by putting together the world's third fastest supercomputer in a record time of three months, and at record low......
Deep underneath your feet is a hellish stone soup, kept hot by a torrent of radiation from poisonous isotopes of uranium, thorium and potassium in the earth's superheated mantle. This is the heat......
As staff at the College of Nanoscale Science & Engineering wait patiently in a conference room, a loud rumble shatters the silence. "Must be him," someone says. Alain E. Kaloyeros has just pulled......
It's official. Football has been the most exciting sport for the last 100 years, but baseball is catching up.A team of scientists from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico studied a......