The Forest Survey of India's (FSI) SMS warning about hot spots/fire alert in Kurangani Hills in Tamil Nadu's Theni district was received just before midnight on Sunday, a senior state Forest Department official said on Tuesday. However the FSI said they had sent the intimation on Sunday afternoon.


TN forest fire: State official, FSI spar over alert timing


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NASA's acting chief Robert Lightfoot is set to retire at the end of April, even as US President Donald Trump's permanent choice to lead the space agency remains stuck in Congress, the media reported.


NASA's acting chief Robert Lightfoot to retire in April


Some 538 genes that play a role in intellectual ability have been identified by a team of international researchers, according to a study released Monday.


Researchers identify over 500 genes related to intelligence


Coinciding with the visit of French President Emmanuel Macron to India, an Indo-French Centre of Excellence (CoE) was inaugurated here on Monday to impart vocational training to engineers in electricity, automation and energy management.


Indo-French centre for engineers inaugurated in Bengaluru


Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to inaugurate the Science Congress in the Manipur University (MU) campus on March 16, government sources said on Monday.


Modi to attend Manipur Science Congress


Not just upbringing and experience as you age, genes too decide the level of empathy in humans, a team led by an Indian-origin scientists has found.


Genes too decide how empathetic you are


To get the accuracy of cuff devices and the convenience of mobile device apps, a team led by an Indian-origin researcher has created a new app and hardware to measure blood pressure.


Indian-origin researchers develop handy blood pressure app, hardware


Want to strengthen your cognitive skills regarding any relevant information? Sleep spindles can help you in retaining new memories related to any newly learned information when you sleep.


Sleep spindles may help in improving memory retention


The world's fisheries will be, on average, 20 per cent less productive in the year 2300 which could be characterised by a 9.6-degree Celsius increase in mean surface air temperature, nearly 10 times the warming we have seen to this point, predicts a new study.


Global fisheries to be 20% less productive in 2300: Study


Hoping to use private pathology labs to reach out to people, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) on Thursday licensed a private lab for 27 genetic tests it has developed over years.


CSIR authorises private path lab for genetic tests


Biodegradable sanitary napkins and a 'beeswax cloth wrap' to replace silver foil were the two winning novel utilities which won the sustainable lifestyle challenge here on Tuesday.


Bio sanitary pad among sustainability challenge winners


In a first, researchers have discovered on alpine plants a rare mineral that holds potential as a new material for industrial and medical applications.


Researchers find rare mineral in plants for first time


Microsoft on Tuesday said it completed its first renewable energy deal in India which will help power its new office building here with solar power.


Microsoft completes renewable energy deal for Bengaluru facility


Improving prospects of identifying new treatment options for motor neurone disease, referred to as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), new research has found evidence that motor neurones change size over the course of disease progression.


Changing neurone size could hold key to new ALS treatments


Due to climate change, the Earth is experiencing earlier springs, but nowhere so much and so fast as at high latitudes, new research suggests.


Spring is arriving earlier in polar regions than anywhere else


Older women who find it difficult to hit the gym or follow a workout routine may now ward off their risk of developing heart failure by taking brisk walks, finds a study.


Brisk walking may reduce heart failure risk in older women


Occasional and relatively light use of marijuana may not increase risk of kidney disease in healthy adults below the age of 60, suggests new research.


Light marijuana use not linked to kidney disease: Study


China will include civilians into the third group of taikonauts to serve its planned space station project, the country's first astronaut Yang Liwei said here on Saturday.


China to recruit civilian astronauts for planned space station


Mothers who were still co-sleeping -- sharing either a room or bed -- with their infants after six months were more likely to feel depressed, finds a study.


How new mothers tend to be more depressed


The moon will have its first 4G cell phone network in 2019, the network builder Vadafone has said.


Moon to have 4G network in 2019


The Minister of State for Higher Education, Satyapal Singh, on Wednesday declined to respond to questions relating to his earlier comment on Isaac Newton's Laws of Motion, which the minister said had been codified by ancient India, much before the scientist did.

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