View: Utter lunacy at Chandni ChowkCashing on the moon has become a dead serious business, not just metaphorically. There are plans to use it as a burial site for human remai...
25 Feb, 2024, 12.52 AM IST
Why NASA's latest space mission is named Psyche? And why it is very significantNASA's Psyche spacecraft is on a six-year journey to the asteroid Psyche, which is believed to be rich in metals and potentially a building...
15 Oct, 2023, 06.27 PM IST
Gigantic 'ocean' near Earth's core discovered by scientists. Read to know moreAccording to an international study, scientists have found a three times larger reservoir than all the oceans on Earth's core. A zone of wa...
12 Oct, 2022, 09.47 PM IST
Earth has a 'sixth ocean'. But you cannot see itAn international study published in Nature Geoscience says there is a vast reservoir of water is located in the so-called transition zone b...
01 Oct, 2022, 03.09 PM IST
Rainshine Entertainment, Animasia Studio launch Web 3.0 multi-format franchiseThe new franchise, ‘Young Captain Nemo’, will have films, TV shows, video games and a Metaverse property.
21 Apr, 2022, 01.10 PM IST
104 days later, Eiffel Tower reopens with social distancing, masksThe Eiffel Tower usually receives about seven million visitors per year, some three-quarters from abroad.
25 Jun, 2020, 04.34 PM IST
Interglobe Tech Quotient boss is a Bond fan, wants to drive an Aston Martin DB5Sandeep Dwivedi also hopes to own an Aston Martin Lagonda someday.
17 Jul, 2019, 09.22 AM IST
Jules Verne to Tintin, the works that sparked our lunar imaginationNothing underlines this more than the fact that 50 years ago, the first man landed on the moon on Sunday, July 20, 1969 — Monday, July 21 i...
14 Jul, 2019, 11.16 AM IST
Superstorms evoke the right frisson of fear, but will we change our ways?Literature, cinema and TV, naturally, cannot remain unaffected by the awe-inspiring force of nature called ‘super storms’, given their unpr...
12 Oct, 2018, 11.36 PM IST
Diamonds should not become as common as granite; let ’em stay buriedThe study, of course, also points out that at 140-250 km below the Earth’s crust, they are too difficult to extract at present.
22 Jul, 2018, 10.39 PM IST
Penniless cities offer land to host Hyperloop tests“This kind of project is essential for a city like ours,” said Thibaut, one of many in France who wants to bring home a piece of Tesla foun...
02 May, 2018, 12.05 PM IST
Finding Point Nemo! Everything you need to know about the spacecraft cemetery - the remotest place on EarthIt lies nearly 1,400 nautical miles from the nearest land mass.
09 Apr, 2018, 10.08 AM IST
French pilots take a trip 'around the world in eighty days'Inspired by the classic adventure novel 'Around the World in Eighty Days', two French pilots are on a world tour which includes stoppages i...
14 May, 2015, 02.43 PM IST
A $ 1,20,000 per head secret luxury trip on the Four Seasons jetA motley group of 52 HNIs — successful businessmen, entrepreneurs and some retired executives — stopped by in Mumbai last week as part of t...
10 Apr, 2015, 02.03 PM IST
First solar-powered airplane Solar Impulse 2 set to start 35,000-km journey from Abu DhabiThirteen years in the making, the idea of a solar-powered aircraft was initially considered something of joke by the aviation industry.
06 Mar, 2015, 04.06 AM IST
Restaurant Review: Does Cafe Nemo fill the platter for appetising fine diners?Cafe Nemo, Worli's hidden gem, boasts of Asian platters & sea food
03 Sep, 2014, 02.16 PM IST
- Rain of gold and platinum
The newly-minted Earth was bombarded by 20 bn tonnes of gold- and platinum-bearing meteorites for over 200 mn years, which is what we mine ...
10 Sep, 2011, 06.25 AM IST