An integrative analysis of a type of gecko revealed that the microscopic hair, called setae, present underneath its toes makes the reptile's feet sticky, experts said.


Microscopic hair make gecko's feet sticky


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The Delhi International Airport Ltd (DIAL) said there was no radioactive leak at the Indira Gandhi International Airport here on Sunday.


No radioactive leak at Delhi airport


Insomania or lack of proper sleep may affect the accuracy of facial identification, a study with implications for those working in security, policing or forensic settings, has found.


Insomania may impair accuracy of face recognition


In an indication that no policy interventions have proven very effective at changing current obesity trends, researchers have estimated that globally some 268 million children aged five to 17 years may be overweight by 2025.


268 million kids to be overweight globally by 2025: Study


Researchers have developed a manufacturing process that uses a biological organism cultivated in brewery wastewater to create the carbon-based materials needed to make energy storage cells.


Brewery wastewater turned into energy storage cells


In a first for a Mars rover, the Opportunity probe will drive down a gully carved long ago by a fluid that might have been water, according to the latest plans for the 12-year-old mission, NASA said.


NASA's Opportunity Mars rover to explore fluid-carved gully


Refuting claims that genetically-modified (GM) crops are hazardous or would be monopolised by multinational companies, scientists say the "controversial crops" are perfectly fine as well as a need of the hour.


'GM crops safe but not ultimate solution'


Just like us, apes can grasp complex mental states and have the ability to guess what others might be thinking, suggests new research.


Apes show human-like ability to guess what others are thinking


Using NASA's Hubble space telescope data, scientists, including one of Indian-origin, have detected superhot blobs of gas, each twice as massive as the planet Mars, being ejected near a dying star.


Astronomers spot giant 'cannonballs' shooting from star


India and Singapore on Thursday called for "reinvigorating multilateral action on terrorism" and "adoption of the Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism in the United Nations" at the earliest.


India, Singapore call for multilateral action on terrorism


Brazilian scientists have announced the discovery of the largest dinosaurs ever found in the country, an animal that was 25 meters long.


Scientists discover largest dinosaur in Brazil


Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday congratulated Indian space scientists for successful launch of the communication satellite, GSAT-18, calling it "another milestone for our space programme".


Modi congratulates ISRO


An Indian communication satellite GSAT-18 was successfully put into orbit by Ariane 5 rocket belonging to French company Arianespace on Thursday, Indian space agency said.


Indian communication satellite GSAT-18 put into orbit


Researchers have crystallised and determined the 3D structure of a protein that could help them develop new treatments by understanding nicotine's molecular effects.


New treatment to beat nicotine addiction a step closer


The liftoff of Ariane 5 rocket with Indian satellite GSAT-18 has been postponed to October 6 due to unfavourable weather conditions, said Arianespace.


Unfavourable weather condition delays launch of Indian satellite


The Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) -- a giant facility to detect cosmic gravitational waves with US collaboration, will come up in Hingoli district of Maharashtra, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis announced here on Tuesday.


Observatory to detect cosmic gravitational waves to come up in Maharashtra


India will be sending up a communication satellite GSAT-18 using Ariane 5 rocket belonging to French company Arianespace on Wednesday, said the Indian space agency.


Ariane rocket to launch Indian communication satellite on Wednesday


Driven by burning of fossil fuels, which consumes oxygen and produces carbon dioxide, the rate of oxygen decline from the Earth's atmosphere has speeded up over the past 100 years, says a study.


Oxygen declining from Earth's atmosphere faster now


British trio -- David J. Thouless, F. Duncan M. Haldane and J. Michael Kosterlitz -- won Nobel Prize in Physics "for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter" on Tuesday.


British trio win Nobel Prize in Physics


Electrifying brain circuits could treat neurological and psychiatric symptoms not because it causes neurons to fire but it creates an environment that makes it more or less likely for neurons to fire, researchers, including one of Indian-origin, have found.


How brain zapping could decrease psychiatric symptoms


Yoshinori Ohsumi, a Japanese cell biologist specialising in autophagy and a professor in Tokyo Institute of Technology's Frontier Research Centre, was on Monday awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries of the mechanism for autophagy, a process that deals with destruction of cells in the body.

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