An entire new factory will be set up in India by Boeing, the aerospace giant. It will manufacture the fighter aircraft F/A-18 Super Hornet, said program vice president Dan Gillian.
According to Gillian, India presents tremendous opportunities for the supply and manufacture of avionics, engine parts and landing gear components. He was talking to a visiting Indian team. The aircraft...
Scientists at NASA are talking about the presence of a vast ocean under the icy surface of our solar system's dwarf planet, Pluto, after delving into a heart-shaped feature on the planet's surface.
Even though the temperature on the planet falls to almost minus 400 degree Fahrenheit, yet the scientists believe the ocean beneath the surface could be of liquid...
Microsoft, the software giant, has joined the Linux Foundation as a Platinum member. This announcement was made at Microsoft’s Connect developer event in New York on Wednesday. The move is Microsoft's attempt to work closely with the open source community, which has been the main focus in many of its developer-focused events recently.
Additionally, beating Google and Facebook, Microsoft...
A team of scientists led by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University has revealed that the structural connections within the brain are unique to a person, and can be used for identification purpose.
According to a paper published in PLOS, the team used a technique called ‘diffusion MRI’ to scan and map the structural connections of the brain. It is different from...
After the success of the first edition in 2014, the second edition of NASSCOM-Zinnov report titled “Start-up India – Momentous Rise of the Indian Start-up Ecosystem” is a treasure of facts and trends on the Indian start-up ecosystem.
India will have around 10,500 startups by 2020 and around 1,400 new startups by the end of 2016, according to a report by...
The Aeronautical Development Establishment's Rustom-II made its maiden flight on Wednesday morning from Challakere in Chitradurga.
The indigenously developed Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle is a breakthrough accomplishment for India's future UAV developmental programmes.
The Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE) which developed the vehicle said that the vehicle belongs to the medium-altitude, long-endurance (MALE) category and had met all expectations on its inaugural flight,...
Scientists have contrived a way to revitalize human eggs using the mother's genetic particles that normally go to waste, an advancement that may help women in their maternal age struggling with infertility treatments. The 'waste' DNA comes from small cells called polar bodies that form off eggs and contain the same genetic material as in a woman's egg nucleus.
Scientists...
Paytm's cumulative user base has now crossed 75 million. On Monday, the e-commerce giant announced that its Android app had crossed 50 million installs on the Google play store in the second week of November 2016.
A 700 percent surge in overall traffic accompanied by a 1000 percent increase in the amount of money added to Paytm accounts cemented the...
The biggest and brightest full moon since 1948 will make an appearance on Monday, Nov. 14. The moon is coming this close to Earth after a gap of 69 years, and if you miss it this time then you will have to wait another 17 years for such a lunar sighting. NASA says we won't see another like it...
Researchers at the Imperial College of London with the association of tech firm DNA Electronics has created a USB stick that can measure the level of HIV virus from one drop of blood.
Project lead, Dr. Graham Cook informed that a traditional HIV monitoring equipment checks the viremia (presence of virus) and “virus load”. Such tests are expensive and unwieldy...
