Washington: The record-breaking 15-year-long Mars mission of NASA’s Opportunity rover was declared over after the US space agency failed to contact the robotic explorer for over eight... Read more

Melbourne: Climate change could lead to decline of underwater kelp forests by impacting their microbiome, according to a study. In humans, it has been observed that changes in the microbes i... Read more

Washington: Scientists have found a way to clean soil contaminated by heavy oil can and make it fertile again. Researchers from Rice University in the US fine-tuned their method to remove pe... Read more

London: E-cigarettes are almost twice as effective as nicotine replacement treatments, such as patches and gum, at helping smokers to kick the butt, a study claims. The research, which invol... Read more

London: Women who face heavy psychological pressures at work are more likely to gain weight, a study claims. The study, published in the journal International Archives of Occupational and En... Read more

Washington: NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft broke a record after successfully entering into orbit around the asteroid Bennu — the smallest cosmic object ever to be orbited by a spac... Read more

London: Scientists have successfully used sound waves to levitate and manipulate multiple objects simultaneously for the first time, using the system to “sew” a thread into a pie... Read more