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US researchers have successfully reversed the hallmarks of ageing in mice using a technique called cellular reprogramming.


US scientists reverse signs of ageing in mice


US space agency NASA launched a constellation of eight small satellites on Thursday designed to aid weather forecasters in understanding and predicting hurricane intensity.


NASA launches 8 small satellites to study hurricanes


The European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) and the Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance will partner to jointly fund up to three life science meetings per year in India, a statement said on Thursday.


Indo-European joint funding for life science meetings


The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Wednesday approved the agreement for cooperation between Indian Space Research Organisation and United States Geological Survey for exchange and use of satellite data.


Cabinet approves cooperation between India and US on satellite data


An earthquake detecting mobile application released by the University of California at Berkeley earlier this year has so far captured 400 temblors worldwide, researchers said.


Quake-detecting mobile app captures nearly 400 temblors


The Antarctic Ice Sheet plays a major role in regional and global climate variability, researchers said.


Antarctic Ice Sheet has impact on climate change


Three tall "towers" standing in a perfect straight line on our neighbouring planet Mars in a recent image are claimed by some UFO and alien enthusiasts as clear evidence that highly intelligent beings exist there.


Proof of alien existence on Red Planet?


While the wet regions of the earth are getting wetter, the dry regions are getting even drier thanks to the warming climate, a new study says.


Climate change widening world's wet-dry region divide


There are about 18,000 bird species in the world - nearly twice as many as previously thought, new research suggests.


Number of bird species in the world soars to 18,000


While heading towards asteroid Bennu, NASA said its first mission to return a sample of an asteroid to the Earth will also search for elusive "Trojan" asteroids that share our home planet's orbit.


NASA probe to search for rare asteroids sharing Earth's orbit


Days after Vietnam stalled its plans to build nuclear power plants citing safety concerns, a nuclear expert in India says overall nuclear power is likely to expand in Asian countries.


Nuclear power will expand in Asia, says expert


While the growth of carbon dioxide emissions has flattened out in recent years, global concentrations of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas and cause of climate change, are now growing faster in the atmosphere than at any other time in the past two decades, a study says.


Global methane emissions growing faster now: Study


Monkeys have the vocal tracts to produce human speech sounds, but what they lack is a speech-ready brain, a new study has found.


Monkeys have vocal chords to speak, lack wired brain


US researchers have identified a bacterium, commonly found in undercooked chicken, that may cause Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS).


Bacterium in undercooked chicken causes paralysis: Study


Indian origin identical twin sisters and another teen got $100,000 grand prize scholarships in the 17th annual Siemens Math, Science and Technology Competition with their medical projects.


Indian teens get $100K prizes in Siemens science contest


Researcher Minhajuddin Sirajuddin from the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine (inStem) in Bengaluru has become the first scientist from India to join the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) Young Investigator Programme network, a statement said on Saturday.


First Indian researcher nominated to European investigator programme


Climate change is to blame for a deadly glacier collapse this year in the once stable region of the Tibetan Plateau, says a study.


Climate change likely triggered deadly 2016 avalanche in Tibet


Some groups killifish are up to 8,000 times more resistant than others to highly toxic industrial pollutants such as dioxins, heavy metals and hydrocarbons, thanks to their high levels of genetic variation, a study says.


DNA diversity helps some fish tolerate toxic levels of pollution


Smallpox, a pathogen that caused millions of deaths worldwide, may not be an ancient disease but a much more modern killer that went on to become the first human disease eradicated by vaccination, suggests genetic research.


Smallpox may have emerged in more recent times


In collaboration with researchers from Assam's Tezpur University, Russian scientists have developed a substance-based cobra venom and quantum dots that can glow and help surgeons see the boundaries of cancerous tumour.

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