Year: 2017

bees and drones

Robot Bees vs Real Bees – Why Tiny Drones Can’t Compete With the Real Thing

Elizabeth Franklin 14/02/2017

Researchers in Japan have been exploring the potential of...

Black holes, monsters in space

Black Holes Are Even Stranger Than You Can Imagine

Alister Graham 14/02/2017

Black holes have fascinated the human mind since they...

The supernova 2013fs located in a blue, star-forming area (the red point sources in the vicinity are foreground stars), which is apparently a part of one of the major arms of the spiral host NGC 7610. Caption and credit: doi:10.1038/nphys4025

Astronomers Catch Star Just Six Hours After it Goes Supernova

Vasudevan Mukunth 14/02/2017

They also found the dying star had begun to...

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Beyond Drought: Tamil Nadu’s Chain of Misfortunes

Seetha Gopalakrishnan 13/02/2017

Tamil Nadu continues to witness cycles of flood and...

dwarf lemur

New Species of Dwarf Lemur Discovered

Shreya Dasgupta 13/02/2017

The newly discovered Ankarana or Sheth’s dwarf lemur is...

Researchers modelled a somewhat similarly shaped active particle using a computer to understand its mechanical properties better. Credit: Zappys Technology Solutions/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Scientists in Chennai Uncover Insights Into Tiny, Self-Propelling ‘Active Particles’

Ronak Gupta 13/02/2017

The active particle design can be used to model...

Rhino cub at Kaziranga.

Fighting Rhino Poaching in India

Giovanni Ortolani 13/02/2017

A DNA profiling tool developed in South Africa could...