Researchers studying the brains of infants who have older siblings with autism were able to identify 80 per cent of the babies who would be subsequently diagnosed with autism at two years of age.


With MRI, researchers find autism biomarkers in infancy


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India may be able to meet all its energy requirements from resources on the moon by 2030, a scientist associated with the ISRO said on Saturday.


India may meet its energy needs from moon by 2030


The absence of clinical medicine to treat Fragile X Syndrome, the most common known genetic cause of autism, does not mean it is not amenable to other forms of care, say experts debunking myths about the inherited condition.


'Nothing can be done' in genetic Fragile X Syndrome a myth


The world's largest "science exhibition on wheels", the Science Express themed on climate change this year, was on Friday flagged off by India's Science, Environment and Railway ministers here.


Dedicated to climate-change, the Science Express flagged off


India's only active volcano, the Barren Islands volcano, located in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, erupted for about four hours in January this year, say scientists attached to the Goa-based National Institute of Oceanography (NIO).


India's only active volcano erupted in January: Scientists


Zealandia -- a lost continent submerged in the southwest Pacific -- is a step closer to being recognised, the authors of a new scientific paper have claimed.


Lost 'Zealandia' under Pacific close to recognition as continent


A team of Australian scientists are using a world-first approach combining three-dimensional (3D) printing and virtual reality (VR) to bring a dinosaur "back to life".


3D printing, virtual reality used to bring dinosaur to 'life'


Sea ice in the Antarctic has shrunk to its lowest level since records began nearly four decades ago, preliminary US satellite data has shown.


Antarctic sea ice hits record low


In a breakthrough that could transform the despair of diabetics into dimples of relief, Indian scientists have designed an insulin-like oral substance, nicknamed "Dimpi", which they claim can be used to tackle both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes.


'Dimpi' to the rescue of diabetics (Health Feature)


January 2017 was just a little cooler than last year and its temperature matched that for the same month in 2007, making it the third warmest January in 137 years of modern record-keeping, according to NASA scientists.


January 2017 third-hottest on record: NASA


Offering hope for those suffering from spine-related problems, surgeons at a leading hospital here on Wednesday announced they have successfully implanted for the first time a 3D-printed vertebrae in a 32-year-old woman, helping her walk again after a bout of disabling spinal tuberculosis.


3D-printed vertebrae helps Indian woman walk again


India on Wednesday created a world record by successfully putting into orbit 104 satellites, including the country's own Cartosat-2earth observation satellite, in a single mission.


India puts record 104 satellites into orbit in single mission


President Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday hailed the ISRO for successfully putting 104 satellites into the orbit, including the country's own Cartosat-2earth observation satellite.


President congratulates ISRO for landmark launch


Vice President M. Hamid Ansari on Wednesday congratulated ISRO on its record 104 satellite launch.


Ansari hails ISRO for launch of 104 satellites


Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday dubbed the ISRO's launch of a record 104 satellites at one go as "path breaking and historic" and congratulated the scientists of Indian Space Research Organisation.


Sonia applauds ISRO, hails record launch as 'path breaking'


Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday congratulated ISRO for the successful launch of 104 satellites at one go and said it was a proud moment for the nation.


Modi congratulates ISRO for launch of 104 satellites


The Indian Air Force on Tuesday received the first of the three indigenously developed Airborne Early Warning and Control System (AEW&C) 'Netra' at the Aero India show here in the presence Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar.


Indigenous AEW system handed over to Air force


Researchers have used data from the European Space Agency's CryoSat-2 satellite to identify a sudden drainage of large pools below West Antarctica's Thwaites glacier, the media reported.


Hidden lakes found draining below West Antarctica glacier


An Australian pharmaceutical company has successfully prevented the progression of Diabetic Kidney Disease (DKD) for the first time.


Australian researchers prevent progression of diabetic kidney disease


Homosexual and bisexual people are no more likely to be at risk of poor mental health compared to their straight counterparts, the results of an Australian study have revealed.


'Sexual orientation plays no part in mental health risk'


A moderate 5.8 magnitude earthquake hit Uttarakhand on the night of February 6. As usual, there was the news rush -- breaking news, specialists' comments and the like. But the earthquake news was somewhat eclipsed by the current charged election environment.

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