Researchers have discovered a dinosaur species that shed its "milk teeth" but did not replace them, a finding that not only changes its anatomy but also explains why birds have beaks and not teeth.


Why are birds toothless?


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A young Indian researcher, whose presentation integrated a popular Khasi folk tale with scientific findings to explain the occurrence of a particular parasitic worm in northeast India, has won the top honour in the EURAXESS Science Slam India contest for teaching current science to a diverse audience in an entertaining way.


Science slam through Khasi folklore bags top prize


Researchers have shown that instead of expensive equipment, smartphones can be used to make movies of living cells and observe their response to different treatments.


Smartphone can make live cell imaging easier, cheaper


After a trapdoor spider, a speckled freshwater darter (fish), a parasitic hairworm and an extinct lizard, outgoing US President Barack Obama now has a new species on his name: a coral-reef fish.


Meet Obama, a new coral-reef fish!


A NASA satellite instrument orbiting Earth that can see through fog, clouds and darkness has given scientists their first continuous look at the boom-and-bust, or peak and decline, cycles of phytoplankton -   foundation of the ocean's food web vital for life to exist on earth.


NASA space laser maps polar ocean plants key to life


Title: How the Zebra Got its Stripes And Other Darwinian Just So Stories; Author: Leo Grasset (translated by Barbara Mellor); Publisher: Profile Books/Hachette India; Pages: 162; Price: Rs 499


Zebras, giraffes, impalas and other evolutionary conundrums (Book Review) 


China on Thursday launched a global carbon dioxide monitoring satellite via a Long March-2D rocket, authorities said.


China launches satellite to monitor global carbon emissions


The year 2016 was a bag of mixed fortunes for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) with successes on the technological front and setbacks on the legal front.


Technologically a fruitful year for ISRO (2016 in Retrospect)


Using a gene-editing technology, scientists have identified three human genes essential for HIV infection, a finding that may promise new targets for treatment of the deadly infection.


Gene-editing technology identifies new HIV treatment targets


Change in weather patterns, brought on by the 'Godzilla' El Nino of 2015 -- one of the strongest on record, fuelled the Zika outbreak in South America, scientists have claimed.


2015's Godzilla El Nino contributed to Zika outbreak: Study


A top scientist at National Physics Laboratory (NPL) here has said that industry should come forward to commercialise the concept of the hydroelectric cell as it has the potential to be a very cheap source of electricity.


Electricity-from-water scientist seeks commercialisation of invention


Thanks to the warming temperatures, Arctic lakes, covered with ice during the winter months, are melting earlier each spring, new research has warned.


Arctic lakes melting earlier each year


Low thyroid functioning may be directly linked to negative impact on women's reproductive health, medical experts here said on Monday.


Low thyroid linked to negative reproductive health of women: Doctors


Rapid population decline among vertebrates began at the end of the 19th century when industrialisation was at its peak, leading to  profound change in global living ecosystems, says a study.


Industrialisation started rapid decline of vertebrates


Drugs used to lower blood pressure can potentially block breast and pancreatic cancer invasion by inhibiting their cellular structures, say researchers.


BP lowering drugs may block cancer invasion


Microsoft has released a set of 100,000 questions and answers that artificial intelligence (AI) researchers can use  to create systems that can read and answer questions as precisely as a human.


Microsoft releases dataset to help researchers create AI tools


A mistakenly sold bag containing samples from the first manned mission to the moon belongs to the woman who bought it in a sale "conducted according to law", a US  District Court judge has ruled.


'Apollo 11 lunar sample belongs to buyer, not NASA'


Over 50 per cent of publications in predatory journals come from researchers affiliated to private/government colleges within India, says a study which also sheds light on the contribution of national institutes to such poor quality open access (OA) junk journals.


Colleges boost junk journals in India: Study


Imagine your child controlling toys with his/her brain while you get busy with home chores. According to researchers from the University of Warwick in Britain, next generation toys controlled with the power of thoughts can become must have gifts in the near future.


Gift mind-controlled toys to your kids soon


Eating good-tasting food such as chocolate chip cookies, potato chips and sweetened condensed milk may not drive long-term overeating and cause obesity, a study has found.


Appetising foods may not drive long-term overeating


If you ever feel frustrated with your romantic partner but cannot vent it out, buy something for yourself that is of an opposite brand to what your partner would prefer.

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