Diversifying the crops in India can be an effective way to adapt its food-production systems to the growing influence of extreme climate change, said US researchers including Indian-origin.


Diversifying crops will mitigate climate impact in India: Study


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To solve water crisis for farmers throughout the varied climate conditions in India, Pune-based company Khethworks has developed solar-powered irrigation system.


Pune firm develops solar-powered irrigation system


Plastic trash may one day help people fly as researchers have found a way to turn daily plastic waste products into jet fuel.


Researchers turn plastic waste into jet fuel


The Indian Air Force (IAF) on Wednesday said it signed an agreement with the state-run Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Tuesday for crew selection and training for the country's prestigious maiden manned mission Gaganyaan by 2021-22.


IAF ties up with ISRO for manned mission crew selection


Russia has lost some 35 billion rubles ($542 million) owing to failed rocket launches between 2010-2018, the government said on Tuesday.


Failed rocket launches cost Russia $542m between 2010-2018


The city-headquartered Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) on Tuesday came out with a nutraceutical product, developed from seaweeds, to combat hypertension.


CMFRI develops nutraceutical from seaweeds


Pakistan's Federal Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhrylaunched what he termed as the country's first official 'moonsighting' website and a calendar showing main Islamic dates and months for the next five years based on scientific evidence.


Pakistan launches first official 'moonsighting' website


From the summer of 2015 to March 2015, US Navy pilots had reported about seeing strange objects in the sky, one of them like a spinning top moving against the wind, which appeared almost daily over the East Coast, a media reports said.


US Navy pilots report unidentified flying objects


Women with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) are more likely to be diagnosed with cancer than men with the condition, warn researchers.


Women with sleep apnea at greater cancer risk


Vice President of India M. Venkaiah Naidu said on Thursday that nuclear electricity as a reliable and safe energy option can significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions and that it has the potential to meet the ever-increasing energy demand in the country.


Nuclear power can reduce greenhouse gases: Vice President


Exhorting students to develop scientific temper, Indian space agency's top executive K. Sivan on Monday hoped the space programme for the youth would produce a good number of scientists every year.


Sivan hopes space programme for youth spawns good scientists


Civil society activists and NGOs on Monday demanded that the National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) withdraw its report approving the nutritional value of food supplied by the Akshaya Patra Foundation as part of the mid-day meals scheme without proper scientific assessment.


NIN's unscientific report on Akshaya Patra food flayed


Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) Chairman Satheesh Reddy said they were spending 25 per cent of the budget on research and development (R&D).


DRDO spends 25% of budget on R&D, says Chairman


Most of the debris from the Anti-Satellite test has decayed and the remaining will also decay in a short period, DRDO Chairman Satheesh Reddy has said.


Most debris from A-SAT test has decayed: DRDO chief


The Indian research community has been rudely shaken and dismayed by an unusual "Advisory" issued by the Ministry of AYUSH virtually barring non-AYUSH scientists from undertaking any research work on AYUSH drugs and treatments.


Scientists upset by AYUSH Ministry advisory


Google on Friday honoured English haematologist Lucy Wills whose research on anaemia in pregnant women in Mumbai in 1928 led to the discovery of folic acid that helps prevent birth defects in babies.


Google honours Lucy Wills who gave birth to folic acid


Pakistan's Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry was mercilessly trolled by Twitterati after he claimed that the Hubble Space Telescope was sent into space by the country's aeronautics and aerospace research agency Suparco, instead of its US counterpart NASA.


Minister says Pakistan sent Hubble to space, gets trolled


Though the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted a near normal monsoon this year, the situation is likely to be complex amid possibility of spatial variation in the rainfall due to impact of climate change and lesser water storage reported from reservoirs in the eastern and western regions compared to last year.


Near-normal monsoon forecast may not solve water woes  (Special)


A team of scientists in Chile have said that they found a human footprint that dates back more than 15,000 years, the oldest one ever found in the Americas, the media reported on Tuesday.


Scientists in Chile find 15,000-year-old footprint


Council of Scientific and Industrial Research's constituent laboratory, the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CSIR-CCMB), Hyderabad, and the Indian Pharmacopeia Commission (IPC), Ghaziabad, have joined hands to facilitate the regulatory process for biosimilars and herbal drugs, as per a statement here on Sunday.


MoU to facilitate regulatory process for biosimilars


Breast cancer passed down in families may be preventable by the medication Denosumab, which is undergoing a five-year study in Austria.