TOP 10 INNOVATION UPDATES

Earth to reach its farthest point from the Sun on July 6, yet the summer heat will not cool: Here's why

IISc study finds ultrasound can selectively destroy oral cancer cells

80 million trees were wiped out in seconds in Siberia after a space rock explosion more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb, but scientists never found a crater

Olympus Mons: The giant Martian volcano nearly three times taller than Mount Everest

Meet Avi Loeb: Harvard scientist who believes alien technology may already have reached Earth, now chosen to lead White House's UFO panel

Scientists create 'life': All about the SpudCell - why it matters & where it falls short

Fukushima nuclear disaster forced more than 150,000 people to flee and turned towns into ghost towns, but one man went back to save the animals: Meet Naoto Matsumura

Scientists may have finally solved the mystery behind Yellowstone's 640,000-year-old mega eruption, revealing what really fueled it

The asthma mystery of Tristan da Cunha: The world’s most isolated island with only two settlers created a rare genetic puzzle mystery in 1817

Quote of the day by Carl Friedrich Gauss: "Mathematics is the queen of…"

Helium was discovered in the Sun 27 years before it was found on Earth

Florida's Burmese python challenge can't wipe out invasive snakes from the Everglades. Awareness is the real victory, officials say

NASA's Hubble spots two enormous galaxy clusters merging billions of light-years away

A comet from another star system flew through our Solar System and scientists checked it for alien signals

Quote of the day by Isaac Newton: "Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in…"

NASA launches high-stakes mission to save ageing telescope Swift from falling to Earth

Quote of the day by Greek physician Hippocrates: "Natural forces within us are…"

Quote of the day by Michio Kaku: "The brain weighs only three pounds, yet it is…"