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Have you ever wondered what do astronauts do when they are out of food supplies or equipment supplies? Or if they have to send some test samples back to Earth. Surely they can’t start their cars and drive on. Scratching your head? They use SpaceX a Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, or SpaceX, is an American space transport company…

We may soon be able to clean the air with the clothes we wear. The University of Sheffield and the London College of Fashion has created a substance called CatClo. It contains  titanium oxide that sticks to your clothes when used in the wash. The chemical then helps destroy pollution in the air – while you wear…

Hmm If this is true then we are definitely talking about a planet that is made up of diamonds because what else could be bigger than Earth. A planet twice the size of our own made largely out of diamond has been discovered. The rocky planet, called ’55 Cancri e’, orbits a sun-like star in…

John Gurdon from the UK and Shinya Yamanaka from Japan of stem cell research have shared the Nobel prize this year for medicine or physiology. This year’s Nobel prize in physics has been awarded to Serge Haroche of France and David Wineland of the US for their work with light and matter at the most fundamental level.…

When you think of honey you usually think of  warm yellow sweet syrup.. Yummy! But what if you opened a beehive and found blue or green honey? That is what happened with Beekeepers in northeastern France. Recently when they collected honey they were alarmed to find their bees producing honey in unnatural shades of green and blue.…

.. And the boy who sent the robot stays home. Wow! Devon Carrow, from New York in America, uses the £3,000 ‘robo-swot’ to attend his classes sitting right at home. The high-tech gadget uses HD cameras to show Devon his classroom and he can signal when he wants to give an answer with a flashing…

Most color motion pictures started around in 1920’s. Now a reel of colour film more than 100 years old has been found in a hidden archive in Bradford. The footage was made by a film personality Edward Turner in 1901. May be color films were there long before we actually thought they were?    

SAM  is a miniature chemistry lab on Curiosity rover, which contains a pack of instruments to find the secrets of Mars.  SAM, the Sample Analysis at Mars, and its mission is to the figure out the past and present chemistry of the Red Planet. SAM is different from the chemistry labs on earth in a way…

“Three species of carnivorous plant that feed on worms underground have been discovered in the Brazilian Savannah.”  The Telegraph reported. Scientists have discovered a new type of carnivorous plant that traps and eat its prey underground. So far we knew about a lot of plants that capture the prey in its leaves above the ground.…

“U.K.-based space-research company Excalibur Almaz hopes to make trips to the moon if not commonplace, then certainly more routine. It plans to use modernized Soviet-era space vehicles — of which it has six — to take people on missions around the moon.” WSJ reported. Art Dula, the CEO, says this is not space tourism but…

A 16 year old Indian boy – Shouryya Ray, settled in Germany has managed to solve math problems that scientists had earlier been able to solve only by using powerful computers. These tricky problems were created by Sir Isaac Newton more than 350 years ago and had never been solved fully. Ray only came across…