February 28, today in world history: From the end of Gulf War to discovery of the structure of DNAFebruary 28th holds significance for major global events. Key moments include the assassination of Olof Palme, the invention of nylon, and ...
28 Feb, 2026, 02.37 PM IST
The Photo That Unlocked DNA: Rosalind Franklin’s BreakthroughIn May 1952, Rosalind Franklin and Raymond Gosling captured Photo 51, a crucial X-ray diffraction image revealing DNA's helical structure. ...
16 Feb, 2026, 04.03 PM IST
James Watson, Nobel prize-winning DNA pioneer, dead at 97James Watson, the Nobel laureate who helped discover DNA's double helix, has died at 97. His groundbreaking 1953 work with Francis Crick re...
08 Nov, 2025, 09.23 PM IST
Life on Mars, Saturn's moon Enceladus, Jupiter’s moon Europa? New study offers ray of hopeMars, Saturn's moon Enceladus, Jupiter’s moon Europa can hold life? Is there any chance? The study has offered new insights into the subjec...
20 Aug, 2025, 07.36 PM IST
Trump vs Musk: How a political feud threatens to send NASA into the ‘biggest crisis’ in its historyA public dispute between President Trump and Elon Musk has jeopardised US space leadership. Proposed budget cuts threaten NASA missions, es...
11 Jun, 2025, 12.18 PM IST
Do aliens exist? NASA to send missions to investigate life in outer spaceNASA will send spacecraft, rover and helicopter-style robotic rotorcraft to outer space to investigate the possibility of an alien life. He...
13 May, 2024, 08.02 PM IST
COVID cases drop 9% globally last week, deaths stableWHO has previously warned that recent surveillance of COVID-19 has been severely compromised by countries reducing their testing, reporting...
04 Aug, 2022, 08.35 AM IST
'United Pingdom': Firms in England fret over staff shortagesThere are also warnings of shortages of goods in supermarkets, cuts in production at factories and potential transport chaos, as illustrate...
19 Jul, 2021, 05.01 PM IST
Scientists identify two antibodies from llamas that can neutralise coronavirusScientists have demonstrated that two small, stable antibody variants derived from the South American mammals llamas can neutralise the nov...
13 Jul, 2020, 06.15 PM IST
UK overtakes Italy with Europe's highest official coronavirus death tollWeekly figures from Britain's Office for National Statistics (ONS) added more than 7,000 deaths in England and Wales, raising the total for...
05 May, 2020, 07.40 PM IST
Indira Gandhi, Sarojini Naidu, Amrita Pritam among 100 most influential women in historyA recent global poll ranked the 100 most influential women in history recently.
15 Aug, 2018, 08.00 AM IST
Startup capital’s theatre now puts science on stageBengaluru’s theatre practitioners are celebrating what science and art enjoy in common through thoughtprovoking theatre, stating that black...
23 Jul, 2018, 12.19 PM IST
Is your personality similar to Charles Darwin or Florence Nightingale? Your handwriting can tellHandwriting is like 'brain writing' because it comes through the central nervous system.
29 Jun, 2017, 09.00 AM IST
Wolverhampton varsity working on India skills programmeUniversity of Wolverhampton, a leading UK varsity, which is imparting football coaching skills for young people in India, is also currently...
12 May, 2016, 01.10 PM IST
Nicole Kidman named best actress at Theatre AwardsNicole Kidman's role British chemist Rosalind Franklin in Anna Ziegler's drama "Photograph 51" landed her the award.
24 Nov, 2015, 03.03 PM IST