Scientists have found that the capacity of wine glasses has ballooned nearly seven-fold over the past 300 years, rising most sharply in the last two decades in line with a surge in wine consumption, a study has revealed.


Wine glasses seven times larger now: Study


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Engineers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have found a way to induce plants to give off dim light, a major step towards realising their vision of using plants to illuminate the workspace.


MIT engineers induce plants to give off light


Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday felicitated the top 20 winners of the 11th Edition of the Young Astronomer Talent Search (YATS) Programme - 2017-18 at Pathani Samanta Planetarium here.


Odisha CM felicitates budding astronomers of state


US President Donald Trump authorised the acting NASA administrator Robert M. Lightfoot Jr. to "lead an innovative space exploration programme to send American astronauts back to the moon, and eventually Mars" during a White House signing ceremony.


Trump to send astronauts back to moon


US President Donald Trump has signed his administration's first space policy directive, formally directing the US space agency NASA to send astronauts back to the moon and eventually Mars.


Trump signs directive to send astronauts back to moon


Prof. Lalji Singh, who died after suffering a massive heart attack late on Monday night,  worked single-handedly, without mincing any words, to present his vision of Indian biological sciences.


Prof. Lalji Singh: A man of dreams, courage and commitment (Obituary)


Eminent scientist and 'Father of DNA finger printing in India', Lalji Singh has passed away after suffering a massive heart attack at the Varanasi airport, an official said. Singh was 70.


'Father of DNA finger printing in India' Lalji Singh dead


Title: Turing and the Universal Machine; Author: Jon Agar; Publisher: Icon Science/Icon Books; Pages: 141; Price: Rs 399


A marvellous device of many applications: A short history of the computer (Book Review)


Aim to trace one's ancestry and to find similarities between ethnic groups from India and other South Asian countries, Chennai-based genomics firm Xcode Life on Friday unveiled its "South Asian and Indian Ancestry Genetic Test" here.


Genetic test to find ancestry of South Asian ethnic groups


Karnataka is dressing them up as "siridanya" or rich grains that should be on every thinking eater's plate. For Icrisat, the Hyderabad-based international crops research institute for semi-arid tropics, they are "smart foods of the 21st century" which are "good for you -- the planet -- the farmer".


Pitching millets as 'smart food of 21st century' (Special to IANS)


Environmental changes, including climate, may have caused human beings to reach their maximum limits for height, lifespan and physical performance, researchers have found.


Humans may have plateaued out limits for lifespan: Study


A team of Australian scientists announced on Thursday the discovery of fossilised remains of a new species of lion that has been extinct for over 19 million years.


Remains of ancient extinct lion species discovered in Australia


Threatened by hydroelectric projects, pollution and fishing, Amazon pink river dolphins were now being tracked and monitored via satellite, an initiative in the Brazilian region to increase knowledge about a species on which little data exists.


Satellites monitoring endangered pink dolphins in Brazil's Amazon


Engineers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have found a way to 3-D print a "living tattoo" using a new kind of ink made from genetically programmed living bacteria cells.


MIT 3-D prints a 'living tattoo' with bacteria cells


The research ship "Xiangyanghong 10" departed on China's 49th ocean expedition on Wednesday, with scientists onboard set to explore polymetallic sulphide deposits in the southwest and northwest Indian Ocean.


Chinese scientists begin 49th ocean expedition


Actor Will Smith has been locked as host of an upcoming National Geographic event series titled "One Strange Rock", based on planet Earth.


Will Smith to host TV series based on Earth


Indians had knowledge of harnessing monsoon winds for navigation long before Hippalus, the Greek mariner and acclaimed discoverer of monsoon winds, according to a study by the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) in Goa.


Navigation began in India: Indus Valley Indians used monsoon winds for sailing


A group of students at Northwestern University in the US is studying an intriguing subject -- a rare portrait mummy of a five-year-old girl which was excavated from Egypt in 1911.


Mysterious mummy girl enters US university class 


In what could put an end to a long-standing row over animal evolution, a new research has determined that it is the morphologically simple sponges, which are the common ancestors of all animals and not the anatomically complex comb jellies.


Sea sponges are common ancestors of all animals: Study


In a boost to the search for alien life, a new NASA study suggests that some icy worlds in our outer solar system, including Pluto, may harbour liquid water oceans beneath the surface.


Pluto may have liquid water oceans beneath icy surface: NASA


A team of Brazilian and Chinese paleontologists have announced the discovery of about 300 fossilised eggs and skeletons of pterosaurs, a number of them quite well-preserved.

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