NASA Spacecraft achieves unprecedented success studying Mercury

Apr 17, 2015, at 04:52 pm

Washington, Apr 17 (IBNS) After extraordinary science findings and technological innovations, a NASA spacecraft launched in 2004 to study Mercury will impact the planet’s surface, most likely on April 30, after it runs out of propellant.

Physics community to discuss latest results of the AMS experiment

Apr 15, 2015, at 07:17 pm

Geneva, Apr 15 (IBNS) The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) collaboration will present on Wednesday the latest results in its quest to understand the origin of cosmic rays and dark matter.

Driverless car by Gujarat scientists

Apr 11, 2015, at 04:55 pm

Ahmedabad, Apr 11 (IBNS) Inspired by Google's driverless car project, two scientists from Gujarat have made a driverless car of their own design.

M Annadurai takes over as Director of ISRO Satellite Centre

Apr 06, 2015, at 10:57 pm

Chennai, Apr 6 (IBNS) M Annadurai, Outstanding Scientist and Programme Director, Indian Remote Sensing Satellites (IRS) and Small Satellite Systems (SSS) of ISRO Satellite Centre (ISAC), Bangalore, has assumed the office of Director, ISAC on Apr 1, officials said.

Proton beams are back in the LHC

Apr 06, 2015, at 12:27 am

Geneva, Apr 5 (IBNS) After two years of intense maintenance and consolidation, and several months of preparation for restart, the Large Hadron Collider, the most powerful particle accelerator in the world, is back in operation.

Uncovering the secrets of the Himalayas off the coast of Mumbai

Apr 02, 2015, at 07:16 pm

Mumbai, Apr 2 (IBNS) Despite being thousands of kilometres apart, a team of international scientists are collecting samples from the bottom of the Arabian Sea to find out how the growth of the Himalayan mountain range has affected the Asian Monsoon over the last 50 million years.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission passes critical milestone

Apr 01, 2015, at 05:04 pm

California, Apr 1 (IBNS) NASA said its 'groundbreaking science mission' to retrieve a sample from an ancient space rock has moved closer to fruition.

PSLV-C27 successfully launches India's fourth Navigation Satellite IRNSS-1D

Mar 29, 2015, at 02:33 am

Chennai, Mar 28 (IBNS): The ISRO said its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, PSLV-C27, successfully launched the 1425 kg IRNSS-1D, the fourth satellite in the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS)on Saturday from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota.

India successfully launches satellite IRNSS-1D satellite

Mar 29, 2015, at 01:12 am

Chennai, Mar 28 (IBNS): India launched IRNSS-1D satellite onboard PSLV-C27 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh on Saturday.

ISRO bags Gandhi Peace Prize

Mar 28, 2015, at 02:53 am

New Delhi, Mar 27 (IBNS): The Gandhi Peace Prize for the year 2014, has been awarded to Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).

Fossils suggest prehistoric super salamander was top predator

Mar 26, 2015, at 05:49 pm

London, Mar 26 (IBNS): A previously undiscovered species of crocodile-like amphibian that lived during the rise of dinosaurs was among Earth’s top predators more than 200 million years ago, a study shows.

Countdown for the PSLV-C27/IRNSS-1D Mission begins

Mar 26, 2015, at 04:18 pm

Chennai, Mar 26 (IBNS): The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Thursday said the countdown for the PSLV-C27/IRNSS-1D Mission has started.

Cabinet approves launch of National Supercomputing Mission

Mar 26, 2015, at 05:24 am

New Delhi, Mar 25 (IBNS) The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved the launch of the National Supercomputing Mission.

NASA's Curiosity Rover finds biologically useful Nitrogen on Mars

Mar 26, 2015, at 01:30 am

California, Mar 25 (IBNS): The NASA has said the team, which is using the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite aboard NASA's Curiosity rover, has made the first detection of nitrogen on the surface of Mars from release during heating of Martian sediments.

Harsh Vardhan urges Indian scientists to use renewable, green material

Mar 24, 2015, at 06:54 pm

New Delhi, Mar 24 (IBNS) Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister for Science and Technology, has urged scientists and technologists working on developing low cost building and structural material that they have got to bear most of the burden of implementing Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s dream of a roof above every head by 2022.

LHC experiments join forces to zoom in on the Higgs boson

Mar 18, 2015, at 03:01 am

Geneva, Mar 17 (IBNS) During the 50th session of "Rencontres de Moriond" in La Thuile Italy, Atlas and CMS presented for the first time a combination of their results on the mass of the Higgs boson.

ISRO plans new launch pad at Sriharikota

Mar 12, 2015, at 11:11 pm

New Delhi,Mar 12(IBNS) Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) proposes to set up a new launch pad, referred as Third Launch Pad, at Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota.

Space Station crew returns to Earth, lands safely in Kazakhstan

Mar 12, 2015, at 04:42 pm

California, Mar 12 (IBNS) Three crew members returned to Earth Wednesday after a 167-day mission on the International Space Station (ISS) that included hundreds of scientific experiments and several spacewalks to prepare the orbiting laboratory for future arrivals by U.S. commercial crew spacecraft.

DuPont achieves top sustainability certification

Mar 12, 2015, at 01:34 am

Kolkata/Hyderabad, Mar 11 (IBNS): DuPont, a leading science company was awarded the prestigious LEED Certification in Gold Category for the DuPont Knowledge Center (DKC) at Hyderabad in India.

India seventh in number of reactor operations

Mar 11, 2015, at 09:32 pm

New Delhi, Mar 11(IBNS) India stands 7th in number of reactors in operation and 14th in terms of net installed capacity among countries with nuclear power.

Land acquired for first-ever Biotech park in J&K: Singh

Mar 09, 2015, at 03:28 am

New Delhi, Mr 8 (IBNS) Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Development of North-Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Jitendra Singh disclosed here today that approximately ten acre of land has been acquired for bringing up the first- ever Biotechnology park in the State of Jammu & Kashmir.

Innovation is the key to progress and prosperity, says Prez

Mar 08, 2015, at 01:35 am

New Delhi, Mar 7 (IBNS): President Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated a week long 'Festival of Innovations' on Saturday at Rashtrapati Bhavan and gave away National Biennial Awards for Grassroots Innovations.

DAE to launch new medical cyclotron centre in Kolkata

Mar 05, 2015, at 11:00 pm

Kolkata, Mar 5 (IBNS): The director of the Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre (VECC) Dinesh Kumar Srivasta said on Wednesday that the government-owned department of Atomic Energy (DAE) would launch a new powerful medical cyclotron centre in Kolkata very soon.

Launch of PSLV-C27 with IRNSS-1D postponed

Mar 05, 2015, at 10:59 pm

New Delhi, Mar 5 (IBNS) The launch of India's fourth Navigation Satellite IRNSS-1D onboard PSLV-C27, which was originally scheduled for Mar 09,from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota has been postponed.

New UN initiative to boost access to science, technology for world's least developed countries

Feb 19, 2015, at 06:27 pm

New York, Feb 19 (IBNS) The world's poorest nations are one step closer to gaining access to critical science, technology and innovation (STI) that is vital to their sustainable development, poverty eradication, and changing the lives of millions of people who live in some of the poorest segments of the global community, the United Nations has announced.

PM visits Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru

Feb 18, 2015, at 11:46 pm

Bengaluru, Feb 18 (IBNS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday dedicated to the nation the Centre for Nano Science Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru.

PM visits Institute for Stem Cell Research, interacts with scientists

Feb 18, 2015, at 11:41 pm

Bengaluru, Feb 18 (IBNS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday visited the Institute for Stem Cell Research at the National Centre for Biological Sciences in Bengaluru.

Harsh Vardhan inaugurates a Vigyan Sadan at Hengbung

Feb 17, 2015, at 11:59 pm

Hengbung, Feb 17 (IBNS) Union Minister of Science & Technology and Earth Sciences & Vice President of CSIR, Harsh Vardhan has said that the central government is committed to ensure the development of the North eastern states and to make Manipur one of the most prosperous and scientifically developed states.

NOAA's new deep space solar monitoring satellite launched

Feb 12, 2015, at 08:08 pm

Washington, Feb 12 (IBNS) A new mission to monitor solar activity is now making its way to an orbit one million miles from Earth.

Critical NASA science returns to Earth aboard SpaceX Dragon spacecraft

Feb 11, 2015, at 05:39 pm

California, Feb 11 (IBNS): SpaceX's Dragon cargo spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean about 7:44 p.m. EST Tuesday 259 miles southwest of Long Beach, California, with nearly 3,700 pounds of NASA cargo, science and first-of-its-kind technology demonstration samples from the International Space Station.