Technology

Washington, Nov 21: Rocket builder Astra Space reached orbit for the first time with its rocket LV0007. The company on Saturday launched the rocket, which carried a test payload for the US Space Force, from the…

San Francisco, November 21: Apple Music has been sued for alleged copyright infringement, "false and misleading advertising", and associating a company with transphobia. Apple has been accused of including a track…

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said on Saturday that he plans to build the world's first "Bitcoin City" which will be funded initially by bitcoin bonds, doubling down on the country's bet on the digital…

If the circumstances are right, the body's T cells are supposed to detect and kill the cancer cells. However, it has been seen that in most cancer patients the T cells become incapable of doing so once they are in the environment…

We tend to think Antarctica is isolated and far away – biologically speaking, this is true. But the continent is busier than you probably imagine, with many national programs and tourist operators crisscrossing the globe to get there.And…

If anyone has a good idea on how to put a nuclear fission power plant on the moon, the U.S. government wants to hear about it.NASA and the nation’s top federal nuclear research lab on Friday put out a request for proposals for a fission…

On Saturday, SpaceX announced that it has completed a static fire test and targeting November 23 as the launch date of NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART). "NASA will intentionally crash the DART…

Surf’s up A laser experiment suggests that protons in outer space can accelerate by surfing shock waves within plasma, Emily Conover reported in “Shock waves give protons a boost” (SN: 9/25/21, p. 7). Reader Norma Frank…

Many writers and editors at Science News have advanced degrees in the sciences. I am not one of them. So when I read an article on a subject like epigenetics or quantum physics, I expect that I’ve got my work cut out for me.…

It’s hard to imagine what Earth might look like in 2500. But a collaboration between science and art is offering an unsettling window into how ongoing climate change might transform now-familiar terrain into alien landscapes over the…

Google CEO Sundar Pichai paid tribute to South African great AB de Villiers after he announced retirement from all forms of cricket on November 19. 'one of my favorites to watch ever!' Pichai wrote. What…

Bengaluru, November 19: Domestic e-commerce platform Flipkart on Friday announced its foray into the healthcare sector through the launch of Flipkart Health+, to provide consumers access to affordable and convenient…

It will also be the longest in 580 years, the Nasa’s Marshall Space Flight Center, which is home to its space launch system, wrote on its Twitter handle. American space agency Nasa has said the lunar eclipse that will be visible tonight…

Over decades, centuries and millennia, the steady skyward climb of redwoods, the tangled march of mangroves along tropical coasts and the slow submersion of carbon-rich soil in peatlands has locked away billions of tons of carbon.…

The next time you thank your lucky stars, you might want to bless the binaries. New calculations indicate that a massive star whose outer layer gets torn off by a companion star ends up shedding a lot more carbon than if the star had…

Lava Agni 5G smartphone is now available for sale in India. The handset was launched in India last week, and now it is listed on Amazon India, Flipkart and Lava e-store. At the time of writing this article, the…

San Francisco: Apple has released an update to its mobile operating system to fix dropped calls on iPhone devices, including the iPhone 12 and 13. The release of the iOS 15.1.1, an updated version of the iOS 15.1,…

All that glitters is not green. Glitter and shimmery pigments are often made using toxic compounds or pollutive microplastics (SN: 4/15/19). That makes the sparkly stuff, notoriously difficult to clean up in the house, a scourge on…

Motorola, the Lenovo-owned tech giant, officially launched the Moto G Power (2022) smartphone in the US market. The handset will be made available at Republic Wireless and Metro by T-Mobile in the coming months. The…

San Francisco: Federal cyber agencies across the US, the UK and Australia have warned that the Iranian government-sponsored hackers are exploiting several vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange email server and cyber…

New Delhi: Google on Thursday joined hands with the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) to launch a $15 million (about Rs 110 crore) financial assistance programme, enabling micro-enterprises avail…

New Delhi: In India, the most popular password is "password" and not "123456" as has been widely speculated. Interestingly, Japan is the only other country that had the same top password as India, new research…

Oppo, the Chinese smartphone maker, is rumoured to launch the Reno7 Series in the Chinese market soon. The Reno7 Series will comprise Reno7, Reno7 Pro and Reno7 SE models. Ahead of its launch, the Reno7 Pro device…

Popular battle-royale game, Battlegrounds Mobile India's lite version is in the works. As per the official BGMI's official Discord channel, a poll was spotted where the developers asked users why do they need a lite…

Scientists from the Ahmedabad-based Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) have discovered an exoplanet that is 725 light years away from us and orbiting an ageing star Scientists from the Ahmedabad-based Physical Research Laboratory (PRL)…

New Delhi: Meta (formerly Facebook) is developing sci-fi haptic gloves that can reproduce a range of sensations in virtual worlds, including texture, pressure and vibration, using air pockets. The team is building…

London: Due to high credit card transaction fees, tech giant Amazon will stop accepting Visa credit cards in the UK from 19th January. According to the BBC, it said the move was due to high credit card transaction…

From 2012 to 2015, a team of researchers collected 2.9 million police officer patrol records in Chicago. The team’s analysis of that data, from nearly 7,000 officers, showed that Black police officers were less likely to arrest…

Scattered across a swath of the Atacama Desert in Chile lie twisted chunks of black and green glass. How the glass ended up there, sprinkled along a 75-kilometer-long corridor, has been a mystery. Now, analyses of space dust in the…

WhatsApp, the Meta-owned instant messaging platform was reportedly working on a desktop app for Windows Pcs. Now the WhatsApp desktop app is finally here and available to download from the Microsoft Windows App…