Pakistan would send a human to space for the first time in 2022 with Chinese assistance, Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry said on Thursday.


First Pakistani will go into space in 2022: Minister


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Russian state atomic energy corporation Rosatom said on Tuesday that its Festival of Science and Culture focused on nuclear science and technologies will be held in Mumbai and New Delhi from October 24 to October 29.


Russia's Rosatom Festival of Science and Culture in India


Girls who play video games are three times more likely to pursue physical science, technology, engineering or maths (PSTEM) degrees compared to their non-gaming counterparts, says a new study.


Girls who play video games more likely to pursue science degrees


In "Brief Answers To The Big Questions", the last book published in renowned physicist Stephen Hawkings name, he has reached the conclusion that there is no God.


There's no God: Stephen Hawking in his last book


Toxic smog has once again threatened to engulf the National Capital Region (NCR) as farmers in parts of Haryana and Punjab have begun to burn their crop residue. And the zika virus, spread by Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes, has mysteriously raised its head in Rajasthan, having already infected about 90 people and worrying health officials.


Nano-carbon: New India-made weapon against mosquitoes?


The Breakthrough Prize Foundation announced nine recipients of the 2019 Breakthrough Prize in recognition of their important achievements in the fields of fundamental physics, life sciences and mathematics.


9 scientists win 2019 Breakthrough Prize


Seasonal variations in the "hydrological load" in the Indo-Gangetic plains play a key role in the genesis of Himalayan earthquakes, a team of geophysicists from India and the US have reported.


Himalayan quakes: Water-loading plays a role, say geophysicist


India is one of the crucial seven nations pursuing the construction of the world's largest tokamak fusion device, a donut-shaped configuration designed to produce 500 MW of thermal fusion energy, an Indian official associated with the project said.


'India crucial partner in making commercially-viable fusion energy a reality'


Scientists have at last found a cure for Schlodomoniasis -- a deadly brain infection caused by the "inter-galactic parasite Klaousmodium cruzi" -- they claim to have identified for the first time.


Sting job by Hyderabad scientist exposes fake journals


The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), the worlds largest experimental fusion facility in which India is a  scientific partners, will start generating "a new, clean, safe and unlimited light" by 2025, its Director General, Bernard Bigot has said.


World's largest fusion facility to see 'light' by 2025, says its top official (IANS Interview)


The Union Cabinet on Wednesday sanctioned Rs 3,074 crore for the establishment of permanent campuses of two new Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs) in Andhra Pradesh's Tirupati and Odisha's Berhampur cities.


Cabinet sanctions Rs 3,074 cr to set up 2 new IISERs


In a bid to better understand the brain region linked to Alzheimer's disease, scientists in the US have created what they believe to be the most detailed atlas yet of the brain's memory bank -- the hippocampus.


Scientists create 'most detailed' map of brain's memory bank


Two remote sensing satellites that will be used for electromagnetic environment surveys were successfully launched on Tuesday from China's Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre.


China launches new remote sensing satellites


Owing to continuous emissions of greenhouse gases, increased global average sea-level is likely to rise by nearly 8 feet by the year 2100 and 50 feet by 2300, as per a new study.


Global sea level may rise 50 feet by 2300: Study


Wipro GE Healthcare on Monday tied up with two partners for developing a medical device and training community workers to support the government's ambitious National Health Protection Scheme -- 'Ayushman Bharat'.


Wipro healthcare arm partners for state health scheme


Abu Dhabi, Oct 8 (IANS/WAM) The French Embassy in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has opened a representative office here of the French space agency, the first of its kind in the country.


First foreign space agency opens in Abu Dhabi


Elon Musk-founded private spaceflight company SpaceX on Sunday successfully landed the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket on land after delivering an Argentinian earth-observation satellite from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.


SpaceX lands Falcon 9 rocket on land after delivering satellite


Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius would require rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society, the IPCC said in a new assessment made public on Monday.


Urgent, collective actions required limiting global warming: UN body


President Ram Nath Kovind on Saturday pointed to the low participation of women in higher sciences and said that their scientific potential was not being harnessed properly.


Kovind concerned over women's low participation in science


Inter-breeding with Neanderthals gave early human beings the ability to fend off dangerous diseases similar to flu and hepatitis, says a research.


Neanderthal genes helped early humans combat flu, hepatitis


President Ram Nath Kovind would inaugurate the fourth edition of the 'India International Science Festival-2018' (IISF) in the state capital on Friday, officials said on Thursday.

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