Science And Technology

Bangalore: The Indian Space Research Organisation has an offer too tempting to resist: Boeing has said it is ready to collaborate and offer technological know-how to Isro for its human space flight programme, scheduled tentatively for 2016. This will include construction of a crew vehicle to the International Space Station (ISS), journey to the station and re-entry into earth’s atmosphere,

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Slated For Launch In 2013, Power-Packed Payloads To Sniff Out Water & More Arun Ram & Srinivas Laxman | TNN Chennai/Mumbai: India’s second mission to the moon, Chandrayaan-2, a Rs 425 crore project, took a definite shape with Isro on Monday announcing details of payloads or scientific instruments to be flown on the orbiter and the rover.

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Johnson TA The second Indian space mission to the moon, Chandrayaan 2, scheduled for 2013, will have three new Indian payloads and will repeat two instruments from the 2008 Chandrayaan 1 mission that lead to the discovery of water in the form of ice near the North Pole of the moon. The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) on Monday announced that a national committee of experts had p

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Paris: The first “supermassive” black holes were created soon after the Big Bang that created the Universe, a finding which could rewrite theories about formation of galaxies, scientists say. Ordinary black holes are entities of mass whose gravitational pull is so huge that not even light can escape them.

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Scientists have created 'dry water' that soaks carbon three times better than water, and hence help combat global warming. Each particle of dry water, a substance that looks like powdered sugar, contains a water droplet surrounded by a sandy silica coating. Ben Carter from the University of Liverpool who presented his research at the American Chemical Society in Boston, US, said: "There's no

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A DISTRICT court issued a preliminary injunction on Monday stopping federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research, in a slap to the Obama administration’s new guidelines on the sensitive issue.

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Event Will Be Country’s First Step Towards Commercialising Patents
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Washington: The Moon is shrinking. Not to worry though, lovers and crooners, it won’t be disappearing any time soon. New research indicates cracks in the Moon’s crust that have formed as the interior has cooled and shrunk over the last billion years or so.

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Kumar Manish | TNN Ahmedabad: The mundane garbage bin has started talking.

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