Members of the public have been invited to apply for tickets to attend a celebration of Professor Stephen Hawking's life at a memorial service in Westminster Abbey here on June 15, with visitors from the future welcome to apply, local media reported on Monday.


Time travellers invited to Stephen Hawking's memorial service


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Researchers have found a "missing link" from a 180 million-year-old fossil that sheds light on how some ancient crocodiles evolved into dolphin-like animals.


Jurassic fossil shows missing link in crocodile family tree


Bangladesh launched its first satellite, "Bangabandhu-1", on Saturday, becoming the 57th nation in the world and fourth in South Asia after India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka to own a satellite.


Bangladesh launches its first satellite


Inching closer to cracking the 50-year-old puzzle of how temperature turns baby turtles male or female, researchers have uncovered a molecular link that connects temperature with sexual development.


How lower temperature turns a baby turtle into a male


David Goodall, a 104-year-old Australian scientist who had campaigned for the legalisation of assisted dying in his home country, ended his life at a Swiss clinic on Thursday, a representative from the pro-euthanasia group Exit International said.


104-year-old scientist David Goodall ends life in Switzerland


In physics, Richard P. Feynman is feted for his path-breaking contribution to quantum theory -- especially its electrodynamics, which won him the Nobel Prize -- and for being among the extraordinary scientific talent that developed the atomic bomb and pioneering nanotechnology. But this was only a part of this exceptional scientist, who was an irrepressible practical joker and raconteur, cracked safes for fun and played bongo drums to relax.


Feynman: A practical joking physicist, a paradigm of science (May 11 is Richard P. Feynman's 100th birth anniversary)


In a study that could lead to new generation of micro-robots inspired by mature, scientists have unlocked the secrets of how some predatory spiders catch their prey while hunting by successfully training one to jump different distances and heights for the first time.


Scientists unravel jumping strategies of spiders


Cholesterol -- a molecule normally linked with cardiovascular diseases -- may also play an important role in the onset and progression of Alzheimer's disease, researchers have found.


Brain cholesterol may increase Alzheimer's disease risk


The Supreme Court on Tuesday indicated that it may increase the compensation to former senior scientist of ISRO, S. Nambi Narayanan, who was falsely implicated in an espionage case by the Intelligence Bureau and Kerala Police.


Framed ISRO ex-scientist may get more compensation, hints SC


Union Environment Minister Harsh Vardhan on Tuesday said the Central government would request the West Bengal government to provide land to the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) to overcome its "space constraint" issue, only if it requests him.


Will take up ZSI's space constraint issue on its request: Harsh Vardhan


Doctors have called for greater efforts to stop the spread of an ancient virus infecting residents across Australia's Northern Territory, the media reported on Tuesday.


Doctors raise alarm over ancient virus in Australia


Claiming that India was now among the top 10 countries vis-a-vis its success in scientific research, Union Science and Technology Minister Harsh Vardhan on Monday said the government's target was to take the country into the top-three bracket of scientifically advanced nations within 10 years.


Aim to get India into top three scientifically advanced nations: Minister


The Narendra Modi government has been successful in creating a good synergy among the science and research departments all over the country, Union Science and Technology Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Monday.


Science, research departments became synergetic under BJP: Harsh Vardhan


NITI Aayog on Monday joined hands with Google to foster growth in India's nascent artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning ecosystem by working together on several initiatives in the two areas.


NITI Aayog, Google join hands to foster AI ecosystem in India


The Supreme Court on Monday asked an Indian company to respond to Monsanto's plea challenging a Delhi High Court verdict holding that the American firm cannot claim a patent on its genetically modified (GM) cotton seeds.


GM cotton patent row: SC issues notice on Monsanto's plea


Britain's Royal Navy has taken delivery of its first unmanned autonomous minesweeping system, Defence Minister Guto Bebb said on Saturday.


First robot minesweeper system delivered to British navy


The government's policy think-tank NITI Aayog on Friday decided to partner with leading technology company IBM to develop a crop yield prediction model using artificial intelligence (AI) to provide real time advisory to farmers in "aspirational districts".


NITI Aayog ropes in IBM to use AI in agriculture


NASA has confirmed that hackers tried to sway results of a challenge for teenagers that involved public voting via social media by targeting some participants on the basis of their race.


Teenagers in NASA challenge targeted by hackers for their race


A major fire broke out in the simulator of the Ahmedabad-based Space Applications Centre of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Thursday.


Fire breaks out at ISRO's R&D centre in Ahmedabad


Book: Doing Science in India: My Second Innings; Author: Dr G. Padmanaban; Publisher: IISc Press; Pages: 124; Price: Rs 799


'Doing science in India troublesome for those over 60' (Book Review)


United States President Donald Trump has hailed the late Indian American astronaut Kalpana Chawla as an inspiration for millions of American girls.

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