A revolutionary bionic eye implant has restored the sight of a British man. Ray Flynn, 80, from Audenshaw, Manchester, has become the first patient in the world to receive an artificial retina for dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the most common cause of eyesight problems in the UK.

Astronomers are to embark on the most intensive search for alien life yet by listening out for potential radio signals coming from advanced civilisations far beyond the solar system. Leading researchers have secured time on two of the world’s most powerful telescopes in the US and Australia to sc

Forget the Pluto flyby. Metals bugs were buzzing Monday after a metallurgically rich asteroid rocketed past Earth on Sunday evening, boasting an out-of-this-world cache of precious metals. Astronomers speculated that the asteroid, known as 2011 UW-158, which passed about 1.5 million miles from Ea

NEW DELHI: To counter Reliance Jio's bid to capture the 4G services market with low cost bundled handsets, telecom major Bharti Airtel is planning to launch Airtel branded smartphones for Rs 4,000 by October-November. "Airtel is in advanced stages to finalise vendors to launch dual mode 4G handse

The Maulana Azad National Fellowship for Minority Students is formulated and funded by Ministry of Minority Affairs. The scheme is open to candidates who belong to one of the Minority Community i.e. Muslim, Sikh, Parsi, Buddhist & Christian and wish to pursue higher studies such as regular and f

NEW DELHI: Indian handset maker Spice has expanded its XLife smartphone series with XLife 406. The company has not officially announced the phone yet, but it has been listed on the company's official website at Rs 3,799. The smartphone competes with Lava Iris X1 Atom, Micromax Bolt A67 and Intex

Controlling cars with your mind may sound like something from a science fiction film but this futuristic idea has just become a reality. Experts have modified a BMW i3 electric car so it can be driven remotely using just a person's thoughts. And in a video demonstration, the car was navigated

JEDDAH: All Saudi and expatriate engineers will have to undergo certain tests before they get licenses to work in Saudi Arabia, the head of engineering offices at the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JCCI), Talal Samarqandi, has said. Earlier, the Saudi Council of Engineers (SCE) had announ

NEW DELHI:  Prime Minister Narendra Modi today launched ambitious projects that aims to train over 40 crore people in India in different skills by 2022. The initiatives include National Skill Development Mission, National Policy for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship 2015, Pradhan Mantri Kaus

NASA has released the first images taken during New Horizons’ historic flyby of dwarf planet Pluto. “We have got a whole bunch of high-resolution observations safely on the spacecraft,” said New Horizons’ Geology, Geophysics and Imaging Team Leader John Spencer, during a press conference at Johns

The UK on Monday announced that it will ban overseas students from outside the European Union to work while they study in the country from the next month, a move that will hit students from countries such as India. UK immigration minister James Brokenshire said that from next month students from

Nasa's New Horizons spacecraft has made the first visit to Pluto, speeding past at 14km per second. Earlier, the space agency released the most detailed picture yet as it hurtled towards the dwarf planet on Tuesday. The probe was set to grab more images and other data as it passed just 12,500k

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Heavy rainfall events setting ever new records have been increasing strikingly in the past thirty years. While before 1980, multi-decadal fluctuations in extreme rainfall events are explained by natural variability, a team of scientists of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research detected a

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MIT researchers have trained their cheetah robot to jump over hurdles as it runs — making it the first four-legged robot that can run and jump over obstacles autonomously. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers had demonstrated last year that the robotic cheetah was able to run unt

Black holes are, by definition, impossible to see by conventional methods and are often further obscured by thick blankets of dust or gas. But that's not an issue for NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR). It can peek through the obscuring layers and monitor the black holes via the h

How much a child's pupil dilates in response to seeing an emotional image can predict his or her risk of depression over the next two years, according to new research from Binghamton University. According to Brandon Gibb, professor of psychology at Binghamton University and director of the Mo