Curiosity has sent in a plethora of photos from the Martian surface. Even though no high resolution photos are available, the first images are great by themselves. Here’s a selection

The Mars Rover Curiosity safely landed on Mars, marking a historic achievement for NASA and ESA. The bus-sized Curiosity, weighing in at 1 ton, touched down and the entire control room erupted in joy! Take a look.

The much awaited $9 Billion papers on the Higgs Boson have been published. What do they really tell us?

The Mars Science Laboratory, MSL, better known as Curiosity, is the new rover which is due to land on Mars on the 5/6th of August! Here, we bring you all the details about the landing – everything that you might ever want to know!

The Olympics are all set to lose the gaze of the world as the Mars Rover lands on Mars on the 5th of August, 2012. As we have already said, the Mars Rover’s landing might not be directly viewable by NASA, but we do hope that the landing goes well.

While the whole of North and East India reels under the worst power outage ever in India’s history, questions as to why this happened have begun surfacing. What is it that destroys an entire power grid? And how does it compare to two infamous North American power outages?

The deadly Ebola virus has returned to haunt the African country of Uganda. The current figures suggest 20 infected and 14 dead, but both are likely to rise. With no cure or vaccine, what is man to do against this viral adversary?

A team of laser scientists have built a huge petawatt laser – the most powerful of its type in the world. This will now be used to accelerate particles like electrons – again something which has never been achieved.

Scientists have created an artificial jellyfish, using the heart muscles taken from a rat. The ‘animal’ was a silicone model of an eight-legged creature resembling a jellyfish. Welcome ‘Medusoid’ to the world.

The new Mars Rover Curiosity will land on the Red Planet on the 6th of August, but NASA may not be able to see that live! Ah, but why?

Stephen Hawking has agreed to be used in the trials for a new device which can monitor brain activity, guess what the user is thinking and then convert that into action or speech. Landmark!

A very complete fossil – the most complete till date – of a hominid has been discovered in the ‘Cradle of Humankind’. What answers can this bony assemblage from 2 million years ago tell us?

The Hubble Space Telescope has just discovered the fifth moon of Pluto. It turns out that the dwarf planet gets a lot of attention!

A forgotten and then revived name, Nikola Tesla remains as enigmatic as his own experiments. Here is wishing that mad genius a very happy birthday.

The evolution-creationism debate has spread to South Korea. While the creationist side wants evolution expunged from school textbooks, the evolutionists’s side has struck back. Not so fast will evolution go off the academic platter.