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  The sperm was stored in the International Space Station in freeze-dried form. Once brought back to Earth and rehydrated, it resulted in the birth of 168 young, free of genetic defects. Japanese researchers found mouse sperm exposed to high levels of cosmic radiation for nearly six years produced a large brood of healthy, unremarkable "space pups." Their study was published Friday in Science Advances -- which noted no signs so far of Mousezillas or rodent Hulks. The sperm was stored in the  International Space Station  in freeze-dried form. Once brought back to Earth and rehydrated, it resulted in the birth of 168 young, free of genetic defects. Developmental biologist and lead author Teruhiko Wakayama told AFP on Thursday that there was little difference between mice fertilized by space sperm and sperm that had remained confined to our planet. "All pups had normal appearance," he said, and when researchers examined their genes "no abnormalities were found....

  The Guinness World Records for most children delivered at a single birth to survive is currently held by Nadya Suleman, who gave birth to six boys and two girls in California, US, in 2009. A South African woman has reportedly given birth to 10 babies, in what would be a world record earlier held by an American woman, according to a local media report. Gosiame Thamara Sithole, 37, gave birth to seven boys and three girls, reported Pretoria News, which could break the Guinness World Records for most children delivered at a single birth to survive. According to BBC, a South African has confirmed the birth of 10 children, while another official said that they are yet to see the babies. Meanwhile, Guinness World Records said that it was investigating the claim, reported the British media network. Quoting Sithole’s husband, Teboho Tsotetsi, Pretoria News said that the doctors had detected eight babies during the medical scans, two less than the South African woman delivered on Monday n...

Are you looking for some quick cash? If you have an old Rs 5 note, then you can earn as much as Rs 30,000 without doing anything. While it may sound a little strange, it is absolutely true. An old Rs 5 note can fetch you a huge amount. All you have to do is visit a website to check the best rates if your Rs 5 note is old and rare. While it is quick cash, it also comes with some conditions. You can only earn up to Rs 30,000 if your  note  has a picture of a tractor on it. Besides, The note issued by the Reserve Bank of India becomes extremely rare if it has the number 786 written on it. If you do have such a  note , you can visit the website coinbazzar.com and check how much you can get for it.  Old and rare notes  are bought and sold on a website called Coin Bazzar. Recently, an advertisement has been given on this website with a note of 1 rupee. According to this, if you have a note of 1 rupee and it meets their standards, then you can earn Rs 45,000 in exchang...

  Having trouble connecting to a meeting on  Google Meet ? You are not alone. Google's videoconferencing solution is suffering an outage since Saturday morning with several users witnessing server issues while connecting to their meetings. Many people took to Twitter to report the inability to access the service, with #googlemeet also trending on the social media platform. Downdetector, a website that provides an overview of outages across several Internet services, had indicated major spikes for the service from 9 am on Saturday. Majority of people on the website are reporting problems with joining a meeting while some are facing issues with starting one.

  H aving worked close to a decade for several Pune-based automobile majors, and now running a plant nursery that fetches him up to Rs 50 lakhs annually, Kakasaheb Sawant has come a long way “When I planted mangoes a decade ago, people laughed at me because they thought mangoes could only be grown in the Konkan, famous for its  Hapus  (Alphonso),” informs Sawant (43), dressed in a full-sleeved white shirt and dark trousers. Sawant’s family, which includes his two primary school teacher brothers, own 20 acres of land in Antral village in Jat Taluka of Sangli district, Maharashtra. This is also a drought-prone region. The village is home to over 280 families and is 15 km from the Jat town. Gifted with fertile black soil, the taluka comprises 125 villages and receives close to 570mm of rainfall. Their farming activities are at the mercy of nature’s vagaries, which locals term ‘ hangami sheti’ . Farmers here either grow grapes or pomegranates and consider mangoes a ‘novelty’...

  This article is brought to you by  All About Space . All About Space  magazine takes you on an awe-inspiring journey through our solar system and beyond, from the amazing technology and spacecraft that enables humanity to venture into orbit, to the complexities of space science. Solar activity refers to the state of the  sun ’s magnetic field and associated phenomena: sunspots, flares,  solar wind and coronal ejections . During periods of minimal solar activity, such events are often uncommon and weak. During solar maximum, they’re at their strongest and most frequent. Magnetic field fluctuations on the sun can happen on drastically different timescales, ranging from seconds all the way to billions of years. When astronomers speak of a "slowdown" or a period of quiescence in the sun’s activity, it doesn’t mean the sun will stop shining, but that there’s a slowdown in activity.

  Indian Railways' oldest running passenger train, Punjab Mail has completed 109 years and steps into 110th year tomorrow. Though passenger train services were suspended during the Covid-19 lockdown from March 22, 2020, gradually the services were reintroduced as special trains after unlock from 1 May last year. However, Punjab Mail special began its journey with LHB coaches from 1 December last year The origins of the Bombay to Peshawar Punjab Mail are rather unclear. Based on a Cost Estimate paper circa 1911 and a complaint by an irate passenger circa October 12, 1912 about the 'late arrival of the train by a few minutes at Delhi', it has been more or less inferred that the Punjab Mail made her maiden run out of Ballard Pier Mole station on 1 June 1912. Punjab Mail is over 16 years older than the more glamorous Frontier Mail. Ballard Pier Mole station was actually a hub for GIPR services. The Punjab Mail, or Punjab Limited as she was then called, finally steamed out on 1 ...