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Less than 300 km drive from Bangalore: 5 lesser-known destinations for an extended Good Friday weekend, offering off-beat experienceLooking for a quiet escape this Good Friday weekend? Bangaloreans don’t have to travel far to find off-beat destinations. From the misty hi...
Buried for Centuries: What This Roman Villa Under Italy’s Vineyard Tells UsArchaeologists in Italy unearthed a 3rd-century Roman villa beneath a vineyard, revealing intricate mosaics and frescoes. This discovery hi...
Under the North Sea, Archaeologists Mapped a Drowned Stone Age ForestA lost prehistoric world, Doggerland, once connected Britain to Europe, teeming with life before rising seas submerged it. Scientists are n...
Is the Ground Beneath Us Releasing More Carbon Than We Think?Beneath American soil, vast carbon reserves are stored. These underground stores, built over centuries and millennia, are now a focus for s...
Sankar, who made Kolkata a living characterWriter Mani Sankar Mukherjee, or Sankar, brilliantly depicted Kolkata's spirit. His novels explored the city's people and their ambitions. ...
The Deepest Cave on Earth: How Does Life Survive There?Scientists have discovered life thriving in Veryovkina Cave, Earth's deepest known cave at over 2,200 meters. Microorganisms, independent o...
The “New Species” Pipeline Is Speeding Up—and It’s Revealing What We’ve MissedScientists are identifying new species at an unprecedented rate, not due to recent evolution, but improved genetic and observational tools....
Zombie Apocalypse? The fungus that eats you alive is coming, and climate change just gave it a passportGlobal warming is exacerbating the threat of deadly fungal infections, particularly those caused by Aspergillus species. A recent study rev...
You can’t stop a landslide, the only thing you can do is save lives: M RajeevanIn the early hours of July 30, consecutive landslides struck Wayanad, Kerala, marking one of the worst natural disasters in the state's his...
Third Lunar mission in 15 years! Moon truly beckons ISROIndia's lunar missions, Chandrayaan-1 and Chandrayaan-2, have made significant discoveries on the Moon. Chandrayaan-1, launched in 2008, fo...
New research finds more water on the Moon; How does this impact our future plans for space exploration?The discovery of water molecules and hydroxyls in lunar soil is an exciting development for space exploration. However, scientists caution ...
ISRO to kick off launch mission in 2022 with PSLV-C52 on Feb 14PSLV-C52 is designed to orbit the EOS-04, weighing 1710 kg, into a sun synchronous polar orbit of 529 km, ISRO said in an update.
Chandrayaan-2 Ready for moonwalkThe landing on the moon near the South Pole, an uncharted territory, would be on Sept 6 or 7.
Global warming, ecological changes, Pakistan shelling triggering avalanches: Army Chief Bipin RawatThe Army Chief lauded the contribution of Major Amit Sagar, officer of the Territorial Army, saying he had volunteered for the posting desp...
Udhampur attack case: NIA’s Naved Yakub chargesheet to nail PakistanThe anti-terror agency is also likely to mention the role of Hizb-ul Mujahideen, which sources say, took part in the Udhampur attack.
Tribal ministry to use space tech to develop water bodiesThe MoTA Secretary had recently visited National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) under Department of Space, Hyderabad, where he studied the sp...
Mars rover Curiosity finds first mineral matchMuch of Curiosity's first year on Mars was spent investigating outcrops in a low area of Gale Crater called "Yellowknife Bay".