Science Ahead

Now, a surgical robot will have a guide, and that too, not a human - but a three-dimensional ultrasound scanner. Developed by engineers from Duke University, the scanner can do its job successfully. According to the researchers, the scanner can...

Are you planning publishing a book, but do not have sufficient time for the printing process to meet the scheduled date of its launch? Never mind! Here is a solution to it, even if you wan to print a book of thousand pages at the last hour, rather...

Here is a computer that is claimed to be capable of operating faster than any computer in space today - it is as much as 100 times faster! It is being developed by engineering researchers at the University of Florida and Honeywell Aerospace. Once...

Last Sunday, it was D-day for China! The country successfully launched its first direct broadcasting satellite -- SINOSAT-2 -- into space aboard a Long March-3B carrier rocket. According to the Xinhua news agency, it was launched from the Xichang...

Astronomers have successfully captured some amazing pictures of two of the most distant galaxies ever seen! These pictures for the first time confirm that these celestial cherubs are real! The ultra-deep images are taken at infrared wavelengths....

A new laser-trap technology capable of simulating white blood cells' suspension has been developed by Japanese scientists. With it, a researcher can trap and hold cells or beads at a focal point -- forming a trap at it -- created by the laser through.

Restoration of the Renaissance masterpieces has always been a hard work, if not challenge for researchers. Nanotechnology has come up as a solution! The Italian researchers have successfully used nano-particles of calcium and magnesium hydroxide and...

A new porous material with a new, highly open framework structure is reportedly been discovered. Can we call it new zeolite? According to Avelino Corma and his colleagues from the Politecnica University of Valencia, it is a zeolite -- one of a family of..

It is after 1925, when scientists discovered the last naturally occurring element on the periodic table, they have recently found a new element - rather the heaviest of all found till date! -- a superheavy element. It is known as 118, said to have...

Two Russian companies are planning to build the first floating nuclear power plant in the world, near the White Sea. Despite all the protests to nuclear plants across the world, through ages for its causing health hazards, the company Rosenergoatom...