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Scientists have long been working on CRISPR, a technology that could modify DNA and help cure diseases like cancer or Hepatitis B. While many have expressed concerns over the abuse of this technology, a group of researchers has taken a major step forward in the gene-editing category - human trials.

The police have arrested one Janagama Srinivas (39) in the murder of S Suresh Kumar (56), an employee of ISRO's National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC). Reportedly, Srinivas had sexual relations with Kumar and killed him at his home in Ameerpet, Hyderabad, after the latter refused to pay him.

What does the Large Hadron Collider do? It smashes together particles smaller than atoms at near-lightspeed to break them down into their constituent parts and recreate conditions which existed fractions of a second after the Big Bang. What will we learn from it? Scientists hope the £4.4 b

What the sad and major set back news to Indian Government, scientists and public this evening is that GSLV-D3 failed to ignite and crashed into the bay of bengal. The domestically developed booster technology failed the mission, the technology only mastered by five countries in the world as of now.

Over two decades back, a spy scandal rose in Kerala that involved two space scientists, two foreign women, sex and rocket secrets that could pose big "threat" to India's national security. Howev...

You may have heard about the concept of space-elevator, a literal lift capable of taking Earthlings into orbit. The idea sounds pretty interesting, but the fact is, there's no technology available to actually make a system like that. That's why some scientists have now used the same concept to come up with another wacky space-travel solution: a 'spaceline' to Moon. Here's all about it.