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Indian universities fail to make Times Higher Education top 300 World University Rankings 2020; IISc slips down ranks

For the first time since 2012, India does not have any entry in the top 300 in World University Rankings 2020, published by UK-based Times Higher Education

Scientists design a way to levitate and propel objects using only light

The work could help engineer a spacecraft that could reach the nearest exoplanet in 20 years.

Amazon Alexa and AWS is helping NASA get work done faster and more efficiently

The next technological tsunami will come in the form of built-in intelligence everywhere.

Images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft indicate dwarf planet Ceres is an active and evolving world

Since Dawn arrived in orbit at Ceres in March 2015, scientists have located more than 300 bright areas.

The Cassiopea jellyfish shows us that organisms learned to sleep before evolving a brain

The findings push the origin of sleep further down the evolutionary tree of life - to before the emergence of a centralised nervous system.

Indian astronomer inspires new research into weather and atmosphere around exoplanets

Inspired by theoretical predictions made by an Indian astronomer, an international group of scientists launched a project to study clouds and weather in the atmosphere of exoplanets and brown dwarfs

Higher the testosterone, more impulsive men get, finds study

The study included 243 males who were randomly selected to receive a dose of testosterone gel or placebo gel before taking a cognitive reflection test.

New technology to double LIGO's ability to detect gravitational waves

Studying gravitational waves can reveal important information about cataclysmic astrophysical events involving black holes and neutron stars.

Tibet: Ancient buried canyon unearthed

An ancient, deep canyon buried along the Yarlung Tsangpo river in south Tibet has been found.

More Asian universities in Britian's top annual index, US still tops charts

The top institutions in Japan, South Korea, China and Singapore generally rose in the annual index published by Britain's Times Higher Education magazine, continuing a "power shift from West to East," its rankings editor Phil Baty said.