WASHINGTON (TIP): Nasa‘s Johnson Space Center has released its own spoof video of singer Psy’s cross-over Korean pop hit, in one of the newest in line of ” Gangnam Style” parody. The space centre’s parody, […]

WASHINGTON (TIP): Astronomers have observed deeper into space than ever before and identified seven new galaxies that formed just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang, including one that may be the oldest […]

WASHINGTON (TIP): Nasa scientists have spotted the longest extraterrestrial river system ever – on Saturn’s moon Titan – and it appears to be a miniature version of Earth’s Nile river. The river valley on Titan […]

LONDON (TIP): Archaeologists believe they are about to unravel the enigmatic smile behind Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece Mona Lisa after discovering what may be skeleton of the woman who posed for the world’s most famous […]

LONDON (TIP): British architects have proposed the concept of ‘smart’ houses that can metamorphosize into eight different configurations to adapt to seasonal, meteorological and even astronomical conditions. For instance, in the summer plan, bedroom one […]

LONDON (TIP): Researchers are using the imprints of raindrops preserved in a 2.7 billion-year-old rock to figure out what the atmosphere was like on the early Earth. Scientists used the depressions that the drops left […]

LOS ANGELES (TIP): The unstoppable Voyager 1 spacecraft has sailed into a new realm of the solar system that scientists did not know existed. Voyager 1 and its twin, Voyager 2, have been speeding away […]

WASHINGTON (TIP): Building on the success of Curiosity’s Red Planet landing, Nasa has announced plans for a robust multi-year Mars programme , including a new robotic science rover set to launch in 2020. The announcement […]

BEIJING (TIP): Chinese astronauts may grow fresh vegetables in extraterrestrial bases on moon or mars in the future to provide food and oxygen supplies to astronauts, an official said after a successful lab experiment. Deng […]

LONDON (TIP): The Cambridge University is set to open a centre for ‘terminator studies’ where leading academics will study the danger that robots pose, with experts saying in future machines may be an existential threat […]

WASHINGTON (TIP): Super-Earths could have oceans of liquid metal and life-protecting magnetic shields, scientists say. Under the heat and pressure that exist inside super- Earths, magnesium oxide and other minerals commonly found in the rocky […]

WASHINGTON (TIP): A NASA spacecraft is keeping tabs on a vast dust storm on Mars that has spawned changes in the Martian atmosphere felt by Curiosity rover on the Red planet’s surface. The Martian dust […]

LOS ANGELES (TIP): After playing in the sand, the Curiosity rover is poised to trek across the Martian landscape in search of a rock to drill into, scientists reported on November 15. The six-wheel rover […]

WASHINGTON (TIP): Researchers have designed a new paperthin bulletproof super material which can selfassemble into alternating glassy and rubbery layers. The nanomaterial could translate into safety beyond vests. These advancements could accelerate progress on protective […]

LONDON (TIP): Early humans who roamed the African savanna three-and-a-half million years ago had a diet more like a cow than a great ape – comprising of grass and sedges, a new Oxford study has […]

LONDON (TIP): Researchers have discovered a new gene which they say helps explain how humans evolved from chimpanzees . The gene, called miR-941 , is carried only by humans and it appeared after humans evolved […]

LONDON (TIP): A 1,400-year-old ‘vampire’ skeleton with metal spikes through its shoulders, heart and ankles, has been discovered in Britain, a new report has claimed. The skeleton dating from 550-700 AD found buried in the […]

MUMBAI (TIP): A total solar eclipse will envelop parts of the US, Australia and New Zealand on Diwali day. Festivities in India will continue as usual given that the celestial event will not be visible […]

LONDON (TIP): A UK man has been fitted with a ‘Terminator-like’ carbon fibre mechanical hand which he can control with movements in his upper arm. Nigel Ackland, 53, from Royston, Cambridgeshire lost his arm in […]

NEW YORK (TIP): Now, Superman knows where exactly he came from. A noted astrophysicist claimed to have determined the actual location of Superman’s fictional home planet — Krypton. Krypton is found 27.1 lightyears from Earth, […]

LONDON (TIP): Researchers have developed a tiny camera that can be clipped to clothes or worn on a necklace, and takes a picture every 30 seconds, allowing users to record their daily lives. The camera, […]

WASHINGTON (TIP): New vaccines being developed by scientists from the School of Biological Sciences at Royal Holloway may eliminate the need for needles as they can be delivered via a nasal spray, or as on […]

Insignificant in visible light, halo stars are big in the infrared background. When the known galaxies and stars in the right panel are subtracted, what remains is the cosmic infrared background shown at left. Astronomers […]