Mumbai-bound Ethiopian Airlines' Dreamliner makes emergency landing after mid-air depressurisation; 7 fall illAn Ethiopian Airlines flight, en route to Mumbai, had an emergency landing. The incident occurred due to cabin depressurisation mid-air. Th...
28 Jun, 2025, 05.02 PM IST
Will Bryan Johnson’s oxygen therapy help him ‘live forever’? Biohacker claims 90-day experiment gave him the ‘Biology of a 10-year-old’Biohacker and tech entrepreneur Bryan Johnson, who spends $2 million annually to fight aging, claims hyperbaric oxygen therapy reversed key...
02 Jun, 2025, 10.34 PM IST
Nuclear war or asteroid strike will not end life on Earth; NASA-backed study reveals the real villainA NASA-supported study from Tokyo's Toho University predicts Earth will gradually lose its oxygen in about one billion years due to increas...
06 May, 2025, 11.51 AM IST
What if astronauts run out of oxygen in space? Here's how they would have to manage this crisisAstronauts rely on specialised systems in spacecraft and space suits to supply oxygen in the airless environment of space. In emergencies, ...
26 Mar, 2025, 11.58 AM IST
DRDO conducts high-altitude trials of integrated life-support system for pilots onboard Tejas jetsDRDO has successfully completed high-altitude trials of an indigenous life support system for Tejas light combat aircraft, designed to gene...
05 Mar, 2025, 01.53 PM IST
China has created this precious commodity in space with just carbon dioxide, water and electricity; here's what it isChina's space agency has successfully produced oxygen and ethylene—essential rocket fuel components—from carbon dioxide, water, and electri...
05 Feb, 2025, 12.26 AM IST
Elon Musk's plan to colonize Mars could be an extremely expensive humanitarian disaster of epic proportions, says this biologistElon Musk's ambitious plan to colonize Mars has captivated the world, but could it be a massive disaster waiting to happen?
02 Dec, 2024, 10.11 PM IST
IIT-Guwahati develops coating to modify ordinary cloth masks for better COVID-19 protectionAccording to World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines, N95 masks or double masking protects people to a great extent from Coronavirus, bu...
29 Nov, 2021, 07.51 PM IST
The Moon's top layer alone has enough oxygen to sustain 8 billion people for 100,000 yearsAlthough the Moon does have an atmosphere, it's very thin and composed mostly of hydrogen, neon and argon. It's not the sort of gaseous mix...
15 Nov, 2021, 10.38 AM IST
NASA extracts breathable oxygen from thin Martian airThe instrument works through electrolysis, which uses extreme heat to separate oxygen atoms from molecules of carbon dioxide, which account...
22 Apr, 2021, 08.48 AM IST
Covid-19: New algae-based respirator may help people wearing masks breath easyThe algae in the respirator conduct photosynthesis and remove carbon dioxide (C02) and other air pollutants while producing oxygen, making ...
29 May, 2020, 01.33 PM IST
Adidas unveils ALPHAEDGE 4D, the first shoes to come with 4D midsole4D midsole is Adidas's latest innovation for runners.
15 Nov, 2018, 01.21 PM IST
- Fungi made life on Earth possible: Study
London, Dec 19 (IANS) Life on earth would have been impossible without the humble fungi, as they played an essential role in the creation o...
19 Dec, 2017, 04.22 PM IST
Mars has ideal conditions to produce oxygen from CO2: StudyAccording to researchers from University of Porto in Portugal and Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, Mars has 96 per cent carbon dioxide (CO2) i...
23 Oct, 2017, 12.46 PM IST
First Oxygen appeared on earth way earlier than we realizedA team of geochemists reports the discovery of rusty, iron-rich rock layers in sediments deposited on shallow ocean floors some 3.2 billion...
09 Sep, 2015, 02.33 PM IST
NASA-funded company to produce oxygen on Mars using bacteriaThe organisms would use Mars' ample supply of regolith as fuel, and may even serve a dual purpose in removing nitrogen from the Martian soi...
14 May, 2015, 05.10 PM IST
Wink-and-zoom contact lenses no longer just a fantasyResearchers have unveiled the latest version of a first-of-its-kind telescopic contact lens that allows the wearer to zoom in and out with ...
26 Feb, 2015, 11.58 AM IST