After India's battles over the grant of patent rights to American companies on neem, turmeric and basmati on US turf, a confrontation is brewing on "home grounds" in the strategic space communication

An amazing fireproof material largely made of ash residue from power stations has been developed by Dr Mahmoud Salem Honorary Research Fellow at Kingstion University, Surrey, southern

When a plane crash-lands and catches fire, half the people who survive the impact may not get out in time. That's because the plastics in the cabin-the seat cushions, carpeting, walls and luggage

The Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute said it has developed a way to convert americium oxide into high-level radioactive waste into americium nitride. In the process, the americium oxide is

The upgrade intermediate-range ballistic missile, Agni-II, capable of delivering a 1,000 kg conventional or nuclear payload to a target more than 2,000 km away, was tested successfully off the

Chun Ning Lau and Alexey Bezryadin, who work in Michael Tinkham's laboratory in Harvard University, have created the world's thinnest metallic wires-less than ten nanometres in diameter. That means

Computer scientists and hobbyists have spent years writing software that can hold rudimentary converstations with people. At last, a use for it is emerging : a

India's most advanced satellite, Insat-2E, was placed close to its geostationary orbit after the 440 Newton thrust liquid aprogee motor(LAM) on board the space-craft was successfully fired again on

At some of America's most presigious research organizations, teams of expert engineers are hard at work building small avian robots, machines that can fly through the air in nature's time-honored

The orbit of the country's most advanced and powerful multipurpose satellite Insat-2E was on Tuesday increased after the successful second firing of the onboard liquid apogee motor.