An eight-year old Indian-origin child prodigy is among experts who will address a cyber security conference starting Thursday, where Minister of State for External Affairs V K Singh is also listed as a keynote speaker. In his address at the summit on November 14, the US-based whizkid Reuben Paul will highlight and demonstrate the need for developing the current generation with cyber security skills, according to the organisers of Ground […]

Naturalist Paul Rosolie will show what it’s like to be swallowed by a snake He was covered in pig’s blood to make himself appetising to anacondas Wore a snake-proof suit he devised to protest about its digestive juices The Discovery Channel will air the ‘Eaten Alive’ special on December 7 It would not be everyone’s idea of getting an inside view of nature. But TV presenter Paul Rosolie has allowed […]

  There is a great deal of debate about whether there is any historical accuracy in the story of Ramayana. For many of us, this is a no-brainer. The fact that our elders had told us the heroic story of Lord Ram’s victory over Raavan was enough. And then there’s the if-there’s-a-TV-show-about-it-it-must’ve-happened crowd. But that’s not how history works. There are many things about the Ramayana that are absolutely mythological. […]

Washington: A sounding rocket fitted with technology to gather 1,500 images of the Sun in flat five minutes is set for launch on Monday.Capturing five images per second, the Rapid Acquisition Imaging Spectrograph Experiment (RAISE) mission will focus in on the split-second changes that occur near active regions on the Sun. These are areas of intense and complex magnetic fields that can give birth to giant eruptions on the Sun […]

LONDON: Michael Jackson cloned his DNA before he died to create a troop of mini-Jacksons and perfect copies of himself, it has been revealed. Scientist Michael Luckman, who learnt about the popstar’s sperm scheme from Jackson’s costume designer and friend Andre Van Pier, said in his new book that he made “safe deposits” of his sperm in three different medical facilities across the world. Pier first learned of the cloning […]

The future is here, and it is apparently a windowless plane which will give you what the Genie’s magic carpet gave Aladdin. Alright, almost. UK-based company Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) is looking to design an airplane that will have no windows and automotive tint installers. Or walls. That’s right. It will basically be you on your seat with your seat belt on, staring out into the vast blue sky […]

Stephen Hawking has joined Facebook, promising to share his work toward discovering “what makes the universe exist” with his followers of his new account. “Time and space may forever be a mystery, but that has not stopped my pursuit,” Hawking writes. “Our connections to one another have grown infinitely and now that I have the chance, I’m eager to share this journey with you.” His page has also posted a […]

Roswell, New Mexico: Google executive Alan Eustace broke the sound barrier and set several skydiving records over the southern New Mexico desert early Friday after taking a big leap from the edge of space. Eustace’s supersonic jump was part of a project by Paragon Space Development Corp. and its Stratospheric Explorer team, which has been working secretly for years to develop a self-contained commercial spacesuit that would allow people to […]

Unique? Suni was much more than that. He was vital to the survival of his kind. So, on Friday, after rangers found the northern white rhino lifeless in his hut on a Kenyan wildlife conservancy, a short countdown to extinction began. Suni was one of only seven northern whites left in the world, all of which live in captivity. There are none known to be left in the wild. More […]

In this 1923 file photo provided by the Guadalupe Dunes Center, whip-wielding overseers drive Hebrew slaves – or hundreds of costumed actors and extras in these roles – before a 10-story wood-and-plaster Egyptian city set, constructed for production of Cecil B. DeMille’s “The Ten Commandments,” near the town of Guadalupe on the wind-swept Central Coast of California. Archaeologists, film buffs and historians are trying to save what remains of the […]