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Bengaluru, May 7 ISRO on Monday said it is developing a 2,000 kN (kilonewton) thrust semi-cryogenic engine working on a Liquid Oxygen (LOX) Kerosene propellant combination for enhancing the payload capability of Launch Vehicle Mark-3 (LVM3) and for future launch...

New Delhi, May 5 Meta-owned WhatsApp is reportedly working on some new features to improve the chat experience of users on the app.  Reactions from media viewers, hidden community group chats, managing chat storage filters, and account restrictions are some...

New Delhi, May 6 Elon Musk, on Monday, invited billionaire investor Warren Buffett to come and invest in Tesla, which is facing tough times amid global slowdown in EV sales. Replying to an X user who posted that Berkshire Hathaway...

New Delhi, May 6 About 94 per cent of Indian service professionals using Artificial Intelligence (AI) said that the technology saves them time, a new report revealed on Monday. According to enterprise software major Salesforce, about 89 per cent of...

Kochi, May 6 Marine heat waves are triggering widespread bleaching of coral reefs in the Lakshadweep Sea, wherein corals lose their vibrant colours due to stress-a concerning phenomenon, according to a new study. Survey results from various Lakshadweep Islands revealed...

Washington, May 6 Indian-origin astronaut Captain Sunita Williams and her fellow veteran NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore are set to fly into the International Space Station (ISS) on a brand new spacecraft, the Boeing Starliner on Monday. The duo will launch...

New Delhi, May 5 In yet another bid to sanitise X social media platform, Elon Musk on Sunday announced that users can now limit replies only to verified users to avoid spam and bots. The platform last month started cracking...

Cape Canaveral (US), May 4 After years of delays and stumbles, Boeing is finally poised to launch astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA. It’s the first flight of Boeing’s Starliner capsule with a crew on board, a pair...

New Delhi, May 3 Meta-owned WhatsApp has said it banned more than 79 lakh accounts in India in the month of March, in compliance with the IT (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021. Between the March 1-31...

New Delhi, May 3 If you ask ChatGPT to gauge your child’s development, stop this practice. According to new research, Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT do not perform like pediatricians in certain tasks like developmental delays. AI chatbots like...

New Delhi, May 3 Evidence of the first case of a wild animal treating their wound with medicinal plants was reported in a new study. At the Suaq Balimbing research site in Indonesia, researchers observed that a male Sumatran orangutan...

Taipei, May 3 China is preparing to launch a lunar probe on Friday that would land on the far side of the moon and return with samples that could provide insights into geological and other differences between the less-explored region...

Washington, May 1 The climate phenomenon known as El Nino — and not climate change — was a key driver in low rainfall that disrupted shipping at the Panama Canal last year, scientists said on Wednesday. A team of international...

New Delhi, May 1 Although OpenAI’s ChatGPT could pass several medical exams, it lacks potential in assessing heart risk, found a study on Wednesday. Research, published in the journal PLOS ONE, showed that “it would be unwise to rely on...

Bengaluru, May 1 A study has revealed evidence for enhanced possibility of water ice occurrence in the polar craters of the Moon, according to ISRO. The study was carried out by the scientists of Space Applications Centre (SAC)/ISRO, in collaboration...

New Delhi, May 1 In 2019, India was among the top five economically developing countries in terms of carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions from aviation, a new research has found. Calculating “nearly real-time” aviation emissions using global flight data, researchers found...

New Delhi, April 29 Dinosaurs were “more like smart giant crocodiles” but not as intelligent as monkeys as an earlier study had found, according to new research. In a study published in January 2023, neuroscientist and author Suzana Herculano-Houzel of...

New Delhi, April 29 India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission, which made a soft-landing near the south pole of the moon, lifted off four seconds late to avoid hitting a piece of space debris, the ISRO said in a recent report. According to...

New Delhi, April 28 The Indian Ocean is expected to experience surface warming of 1.4 degrees Celsius to 3 degrees Celsius between 2020 and 2100, which will push it into a near-permanent heatwave state, intensify cyclones, affect the monsoon, and...

Shanghai/Beijing, April 28 Tesla CEO Elon Musk arrived in Beijing on Sunday on an unannounced visit, where he is expected to meet senior officials to discuss the rollout of Full Self-Driving software and permission to transfer data overseas, according to...

Lucknow, April 28 Contrary to the common practice of rubbing ice or applying toothpaste, it is better to keep the affected burn area under flowing water until the pain stops. This is the best thing to do in case of...

New Delhi, April 27 Meta-owned WhatsApp is reportedly testing a new feature that will offer users a dedicated ‘filter’ to quickly get a list of their favourites from the chats tab on Android. According to WABetaInfo, the feature is set...

New Delhi, April 26 Warming of the Arctic is reducing dust levels around the world by changing the way winds blow over deserts, thereby affecting how the dust is transported, according to a new research. Researchers explained that driven by...

New Delhi, April 26 Amid the ongoing cricket fever in the country, scamsters have been posing as Mahendra Singh Dhoni to con people on social media, the Department of Telecom (DoT) said on Friday, warning people against falling into the...

New Delhi, April 26 Messaging service platform WhatsApp on Thursday submitted before the Delhi High Court that if it is made or compelled to break encryption of messages, then the platform will stop functioning. The submissions came while the division...