Getting the right grip with English Ivy’s powerful grasp
New York-- Learning about English ivy plant's natural glue can lead to better medical adhesives and stronger armor for the military, researchers report.
Famous naturalist...
Trees too go to sleep at night
London--Don't pluck that flower at night for the plant might be sleeping after a long day in the sun, suggests new research that measured...
Mom’s voice activates different regions in children’s brains
New York-- The mother's voice can lighten up and engage the child's brain far more than the voices of women they do not know,...
IIT-Kharagpur student bags European Materials Research Society award
Kolkata-- Nandini Bhandaru, a PhD student at IIT-Kharagpur, has bagged the European Materials Research Society's (E-MRS's) Young Scientist Award for her contribution to materials...
Rock formations from Earth’s earliest years found
Washington--A team of researchers, including those of Indian-origin, has found material in rock formations that dates back to shortly after the Earth formed.
The discovery,...
George Church: If you’re not failing, you’re probably not trying as hard as you...
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Three Earth-sized planets discovered orbiting dwarf star
London-- Raising the hope to find alien life near us, an international team of astrophysicists has discovered three Earth-sized planets orbiting near the "habitable...
One trillion species on Earth and we know nothing
New York-- There are nearly one trillion species on the Earth while 99.999 percent of species still remain undiscovered, the largest-ever analysis of microbial...
Researchers reveal how cancer cells escape from tumors and spread
By Thea Singer
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Gravitational waves ‘sixth sense’ to understand universe: US-based Indian researchers
By Sahana Ghosh
Kolkata--Thrilled at the detection of the elusive gravitational waves a century after Albert Einstein's prediction and the first observation of collision of...