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The government has approved the production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme for drones and drone components for implementation during the current year (2022-23) till 2024-25 with an outlay of Rs 120 crore. Based on the consultations/meetings with the stakeholders, including the industry representatives and the concerned departments, the operational guidelines of the PLI scheme for drones and drone components have been finalised.

Duke University engineers have created a gadget that employs sound waves to separate and sort the smallest particles found in the blood in a couple of minutes. The technique is based on a concept known as "virtual pillars," and it has the potential to benefit both scientific research and medicinal applications.

Mark T. Vande Hei did experiments, spacewalked, and even did house chores and worked out. He loved to meditate with Earth in full view.

A formerly sunken boat sits upright into the air as a drought depletes water levels in Lake Mead on June 22, 2022.AP Photo/J...

Four of the animals found during a deep-sea expedition to the Cocos Islands.Museums Victoria/Ben Healley Scie...

NASA and China each just launched landmark missions in their efforts to put astronauts back on the moon. The spaceflights are very different.

Body decomposition is a gruesome intricate process. Here's a step-by-step guide to what happens to your body, in 13 steps.

French scientists have revived a 48,500-year-old zombie virus buried under a frozen lake in Russia until now! According to N...

China's lockdowns are unnecessarily strict, public-health experts say. They can delay a catastrophic COVID wave, but they can't stop one.

Multiple agencies said Monday morning that there was no immediate threat to populated areas, but asked people to keep an eye out for ash.

More than 90 per cent of the source of hydrogen is from petroleum feedstock, making it costly and out of reach of the common man. IIT Jodhpur's research team is working to find a viable source of hydrogen generation. The technology developed by the IIT Jodhpur team does not need any external energy source except sunlight.

French researchers have decoded a mysterious letter penned in 1547 by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. It gives a rare insight into European history.

Sausage dogs were used for entertainment in the Roman Colosseum and may have been made to fight larger animals like bears, archaeologists said.

As the world warms, old sites, ancient artifacts, rare fossils, and even human remains are being unearthed.

483 gold coins were stolen from a museum in Bavaria, Germany, after fiber optic cables were suspiciously cut causing a power outage and alarm failure.

NASA is hinging its ambitions to send astronauts to the moon and Mars — along with $50 billion spent building the spacecraft — on this mission.

Webb captured the Tarantula Nebula star-forming region in this mosaic image stretching 340 light-years across.NASA, ESA, CSA...

Scientists of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) commenced the countdown on Friday for the launch of Earth Observation Satellite - Oceansat - and eight other customer satellites on a PSLV-C54 rocket from the spaceport of Sriharikota on Saturday. The 25.30-hour countdown for the 56th flight of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), in its extended version (PSLV-XL), started at 10.26 AM today for the lift-off scheduled at 11.56 AM on Saturday from the first launchpad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, 115 km from here, a source said.

Consumption of alcohol, even in low to moderate amounts during pregnancy, can change the baby's brain structure and delay brain development, a new MRI-based study has warned.

For two years, NASA trains its astronauts, including have them work underwater and learn desert survival skills, to get them ready for space travel.

The cost of CSL Behring's Hemgenix, which is used to treat hemophilia B, is higher than the fair price recommended by an independent review.

After baiting the bees with raw chicken, scientists learned that these carnivores have guts more like vultures than pollen-eating bees.