While touch sensing is common on small, flat surfaces such as smartphone or tablet screens, researchers have now developed a technology to turn surfaces of a wide variety of shapes and sizes into touchpads using tools as simple as a can of spray paint.

Dharamsala is going to be the first city in the world to have suspended "skyway" transport system, which will become operational within three years, Himachal Pradesh Urban Development Minister Sudhir Sharma said on Tuesday.

In a bid to curb online child sexual abuse material, the Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology on Tuesday asked all internet service providers (ISPs) to prevent the distribution and transmission of such content into India by adopting and implementing Internet Watch Foundation Resources on or before July 31

India plans to launch a Rs 10,000-crore Deep Ocean Mission in December to carry out research to harness ocean resources in a "responsible manner", an official said on Tuesday.

The US Air Force's X-37B space plane returned to Earth on Sunday after completing a secret space mission that lasted nearly two years.

A brand new technique has been developed to convert rocks on planet Moon and Mars into a concrete like material. Civil engineers at the Stanford University have worked with colleagues at the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to develop the new form of concrete.

NASA is currently reviewing 12 proposals for future unmanned mission on Solar System to find more signs of life. The new mission to Saturn's moons Titan or Enceladus is likely to be launched in the mid-2020s.

Blood Falls, found in 1911 by the Australian geologist Griffith Taylor, is famous for its sporadic releases of iron-rich salty water from the tongue of Taylor Glacier onto the ice-covered surface of West Lake Bonney in the Taylor Valley of the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Victoria Land of East Antarctica

"The oxygen in oceans has dynamic properties, and its concentration can change with natural climate variability," said lead researcher Taka Ito, Associate Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, US.

President Pranab Mukherjee and Vice-President Hamid Ansari on Friday congratulated the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on the successful launch of the South Asia Satellite.