Yoga offers a promising approach to fight spinal stiffness and reduced mobility that astronauts on long missions in space suffer from, say researchers.


Yoga may help astronauts fight spinal stiffness


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NASA has awarded aerospace and defense technology major Orbital ATK a contract to build Landsat 9, an advanced land surface mapping satellite to be operated by the US Geological Survey (USGS).


Orbital ATK to build NASA's next Landsat satellite


In good news for stroke and spinal cord injury patients, researchers have designed a lower-limb robot exoskeleton -- a wearable robot that features natural knee movement to help patients regain the ability to walk or help strengthen their muscles.


Lower-limb wearing robot to help paralytic patients move


Along with our skin that loses the firmness and elasticity of the youth, our brain too starts to sag as we age, researchers say.


Know how human brains 'slack' with age


As controversy grips the indigenously-developed Genetically Modified (GM) mustard -- a crop which scientists say will address India's food security and farmer's troubles -- the man who developed the variety has termed this an issue "which has gone too far".


Unscientific criticism has cost farmers a fortune: GM mustard developer (IANS interview) 


Inexpensive and energy-efficient lithium-ion batteries from fossilised remains of single-celled algae called diatoms can soon power electric vehicles, a team of researcher has found.


Fossilised algae may soon power electric vehicles


Researchers from the University of Kansas have found the earliest evidence for right-handedness in the fossil record by examining striations on teeth of a Homo habilis fossil.


Homo habilis were right-handed: Study


A large number of people from different parts of the country will assemble here at Jantar Matar on October 25 to protest against GM mustard and other such Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs), an official said.


Big protest planned against GM mustard


What if clothes and other wearable items can sense your illness and transmit data to a doctor in a distant clinic for monitoring your health and prescribing drugs? This could be possible, thanks to new research by an Indian-origin scientist at University of Rhode Island.


Indian-origin researcher's smart textiles to measure illness


Strange clouds forming above the Bermuda Triangle could explain why dozens of ships and planes have mysteriously vanished in the notorious patch of sea.


Mystery of Bermuda Triangle may finally be solved


An Indian-American researcher and his team have created life-size 3D hand models, complete with all five fingerprints using a high-resolution 3D printer that can produce the same ridges and valleys as a real finger.


Indian-origin scientist creates 'real' 3D hands in lab


Fossilised leaves recovered from a crater lake in New Zealand provided insight on how climate changed and affected the Antarctic ice-sheet 23 million years ago, a scientist said on Thursday.


Fossil leaves show how Antarctic ice melted 23 mn years ago


Earlier part of Chinese multinational telecommunications company ZTE Corporation, nubia has now gone stand-alone with its first mid-budget phone, Z11 Mini, which will be exclusively available for Indian customers on Amazon at Rs 12,999 from October 21.


nubia Z11 Mini available in India at Rs 12,999 from Oct 21 


Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) here on Wednesday announced six new certificate courses in the field of animal welfare to sensitise and train people in the ethics of treating animals.


JNU to conduct certificate courses in animal welfare


In a major step towards faster and convenient delivery of medical tests, Washington State University researchers have developed a low-cost, portable laboratory on a smartphone that can analyse several samples at once to catch a cancer biomarker, producing lab quality results.


Here comes a smartphone laboratory that can detect cancer


Researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard Medical School have developed a biocompatible and highly stretchable optical fiber which can be implanted in the body to deliver therapeutic pulses of light or light up at the first sign of disease.


New biocompatible optical fibers to detect first sign of disease


The Geological Survey of India on Tuesday launched the Online Core Business Integrated System (OCBIS) to efficiently manage and share quality geo-scientific data through digital channels for socio-economic and scientific gain.


GSI launches online system to manage, share geo-data


A non-steroid, anti-inflammatory drug used for treating common cold has the potential to suppress the spread of bladder cancers as well as reduce their resistance to anti-cancer drugs in mice, Japanese researchers have found.


Cheap drug for common cold can stop spread of cancer


US aerospace firm Orbital ATK launched its sixth resupply mission carrying NASA cargo to the International Space Station (ISS) using an upgraded Antares rocket almost two years after its predecessor exploded on lift-off.


Orbital ATK resupply mission launches to space station


Cooking was as personal to Indians in the early Roman period as it is now, says a noted British expert on Roman pottery citing the discovery of cooking pots from Kerala in Egypt.


Indians used own cooking pots in Egypt during ancient Indo-Roman trade


Researchers from University of Cambridge said they are developing a new imaging technique with the aim of detecting and characterising early cancerous changes in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract.

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