A landmark US court ruling said that human genes are not up for patent. Merely isolating the gene doesn’t amount to ‘inventing’ it. This is bound to cause major ripples in cancer research in the near future.

A recent hardware malfunction on Kepler has left the space telescope teetering on the verge of being another piece of space junk. It’s not out of the game yet, but definitely it’s in hot water.

NASA has just detected the strongest explosion ever recorded in the Universe. It’s a gigantic gamma ray burst, and not too far away.

Recent experiments peg the value of the proton radius at smaller than what was known earlier. Recent experiments using the muon, a cousin of the electron, give a radically different result. What’s afoot?

There is a tantalising signal of a new particle at a detector called the CDMS. Scientists say that this might be the elusive dark matter particle. Do we finally have a dark matter candidate in our hand? Well, not yet!

The recently released results of the Planck cosmic microwave radiation probe reveal a Universe which is, frankly, just a bit boring. Here’s looking at those results more closely.

Want to see a brain in action – here it is! Watch the firings of the brain of a zebrafish larva, as it is imaged in high resolution for the first time ever. This one is pure epic!

Google will soon have one single platform to unite all of its disparate communication platforms like Chat, Drive and Hangout, making it the one go-to place for everything. The name: Babble.

That frood, Douglas Adams, one of the greatest ever writers in the English language, celebrates his 61st birthday today and Google honors him with a brilliant interactive doodle. Don’t Panic, just keep your towel close.

This is the first documented case of a child being cured of HIV. This scientific miracle will surely be followed by a lot of research. The future may be HIV free.

Google honours the man who started it all – Nicolaus Copernicus. Let’s wrap our minds around that idea!

An earthquake of strength 4.9 was detected originating from the North Korean region, triggering international fears that North Korea has conducted its third nuclear test. Is that the case?

The ‘wrong’ photo of a monkey released by Iran has caused the entire country heavy embarrassment. Was it just a bad goof-up or is the whole launch story floated by Iran a big hoax?

Google jumped into the future with its innovative audio transmission system for which it recently acquired a patent. Project Glass is something that all tech freaks must be looking closely at.

A 5-year old page, rated as a ‘good article’ about a fictitious Goan War on Wikipedia has been revealed as an elaborate hoax. It has been taken down.