Chinese scientists have come up with a new membrane material which can efficiently separate salt from water and has other water purification functions.

Elated scientists announced Wednesday the completion of a 20-year quest to map the complex enzyme thought to forestall ageing by repairing the tips of chromosomes in plants and animals, including humans.

India puts into orbit navigation satellite IRNSS-1I, a part of its satellite navigation system NavIC in copy-book style.

China’s Tiangong-1 space station re-enters the earth’s atmosphere and burns up over the middle of the South Pacific, the Chinese space authority says.

Synesthesia is a rare and non-pathological condition wherein the stimulation of a certain sense provokes a secondary perception in another. In short, it makes a person hear sounds upon seeing images, see colors upon hearing music or experience taste when certain words and phrases are spoken.

Chinese scientists have begun preliminary research on a next-generation icebreaker capable of lengthy research missions in the Arctic and Antarctica, according to the programme’s chief designer.

Humanity may need look no further than our own Solar System in the search for alien life, researchers probing one of Saturn's moons say.

Scientists announce to have grown human egg cells to full maturity in the lab in a potential breakthrough for fertility treatment.

If you miss it tonight, you will have to wait for another 35 years to get the chance to see it. On Bangladesh sky, the entire lunar event – also named “super blue blood moon” -- started at 4:49pm and will end at 10:09pm (local time).

Scientists used a portable device no bigger than a cellphone to sequence the most complete human genome ever assembled with a single technology, according to a study.

Chinese students spend 200 continuous days in a "lunar lab" in Beijing, state media say, as the country prepares for its long-term goal of putting people on the moon.

There’s not a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. There’s an iridescent dinosaur.

Here are the top ten scientific discoveries of 2017 which hold the potential to enhance the advancement of human civilisation and change our very understanding of the universe as a whole.

The world's first-ever detection of two faraway neutron stars colliding, causing a massive blast that rippled through the fabric of space and time, is judged the scientific breakthrough of 2017.

At last the Pentagon has acknowledged funding a secret multi-million-dollar programme to investigate sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO).

If you are a smoker then people will find you less attractive, that’s what a study says. Non-smokers are proved to be more attractive than smokers as proofs of negative impact of smoking on facial appearances, say researchers at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom.

A swarm of beetles, carrying tiny computers as backpacks, could one day be crawling through cracks and crevices in search of survivors during rescue missions.

Science could soon unleash a most incongruous army in the war against disease - one composed of filthy flies.

The UNESCO Carlos J Finlay Prize 2017 in Microbiology proves that the scientists in Bangladesh are doing world-class researches in their country, says Professor Dr Samir K Saha, a recipient of the award this year.

If you want to really understand how someone is feeling it's better to listen to them without looking according to new US research, which finds that we read others emotions more accurately when using only vocal cues.