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Last February, the National Toxicology Program said there was a small increase in an unusual type of heart tumour in male rats, but not in mice or female rats. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Federal agencies clash on cellphone cancer risk

The Food and Drug Administration, which oversees cellphone safety, disagreed with the upgraded warnings.

3 Nov 2018 6:22 PM IST

This illustration made available by NASA depicts the Dawn spacecraft orbiting the dwarf planet Ceres. On Thursday, Nov. 1, 2018, NASA announced it had lost the probe, ending a fruitful mission in the asteroid belt. (NASA via AP)

Another NASA spacecraft runs out of steam, 2nd this week

Running low on fuel for some time, the Dawn spacecraft this week stopped communicating with flight controllers.

3 Nov 2018 1:58 PM IST

The Airbus team poses with the European Service Module during preparations for shipment to NASAs Kennedy Space Center. (Image Credit: NASA/Rad Sinyak)

Airbus delivers powerhouse for NASA's Orion spacecraft

The module will be joined with the Orion crew module built by Lockheed Martin.

3 Nov 2018 9:50 AM IST

The grey bricks are produced in a lab over eight days using urine, calcium, sand and bacteria. Fertilizers are also produced during the processes. (Photo: University of Cape Town)

These bricks are made using human urine

Researchers made bricks using human urine in a natural process involving colonies of bacteria.

3 Nov 2018 9:30 AM IST

A Falcon 9 SpaceX heavy rocket lifts off from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral. The Falcon Heavy, has three first-stage boosters, strapped together with 27 engines in all. (Photo: AP)

Musk shakes up SpaceX in race to make satellite launch window

Within hours of landing, Musk had fired at least seven people on the program's senior management team at the Redmond.

2 Nov 2018 2:32 PM IST

So far, fewer than 3,500 complex life species, or only about 0.2 percent, have had their genomes sequenced. (Photo: Pixabay)

Scientists launch plan to map genes of all complex life on earth

They described the Earth BioGenome Project (EBP) as the next moonshot for biology after the Human Genome Project.

2 Nov 2018 1:45 PM IST

The earliest-known bird, Archaeopteryx, lived about 150 million years ago in Germany. (Photo: American Museum of Natural History)

Some dinosaurs had exquisite eggs with colours, spots, speckles

Egg colour provided an evolutionary advantage to dinosaurs that had exposed nests for their eggs.

2 Nov 2018 12:50 PM IST

A Russian cosmonaut and a US astronaut survived an aborted liftoff after a Soyuz rocket bound for the ISS failed in mid-air.

Russia plans first manned space mission since rocket failure

A Russian cosmonaut and US astronaut were forced to abort their mission on Oct. 11 and perform an emergency landing.

1 Nov 2018 8:49 AM IST

The technology to fuse prostheses to the body has changed little for centuries. (Photo: Pixabay)

Click-on bionic arm could help amputees do the simple things

The procedure, known as osseointegration' (OI), involved implanting a metal rod into the bone of his residual limb.

1 Nov 2018 8:42 AM IST

A Russian Soyuz-2 booster rocket takes off from the Plesetsk launch facility in northwestern Russia. (Photo: AP)

Russian Soyuz rocket failure caused by faulty sensor

Russian news agencies citing an official confirmed the same.

1 Nov 2018 8:23 AM IST

Electric car maker Teslas CEO Elon Musk gives the opening keynote at the SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Jack Plunkett, File)

Musk shakes up SpaceX in race to make satellite launch window

Musk had fired at least seven members of the program's senior management team at the Redmond.

31 Oct 2018 4:41 PM IST

The pieces - a basalt fragment, similar to most of the Earths volcanic rock, and bits of surface debris known as regolith - are being sold by an unidentified private American collector who purchased them in 1993. (Photo: Sothbebys)

Soviet-era moon fragments could reach USD 1 million at NY auction

Last year Sotheby's sold a zippered bag stamped with the words Lunar Sample Return laced with moon dust.

31 Oct 2018 2:48 PM IST