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The $960,000 2015 Nobel Prize for Chemistry will be shared between three scientists from Sweden, USA and Turkey - Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar respectively.

The 2015 Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded "for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass".

Three scientists from Ireland, Japan and China - William C Campbell, Satoshi Ōmura and Youyou Tu - have been awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine.

Following NASA's announcement on 28 September 2015 regarding Martian water, NASA's associate-administrator for science John Grunsfeld, talked of sending a spacecraft in the 2020s to directly look for life on Mars.

The deployment of Google Wi-Fi networks across Indian railway stations will start from October 2015.

India's first space observatory, ASTROSAT entered into orbit 25 minutes after its 10 AM lift-off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre.

Incorporated in 1998, Google Inc. celebrates its 17th birthday today.

As the draft of the proposed encryption policy was made public, there was a huge outrage among the netizens.

The Indian health ministry is working on making cancer medicines available at substantially lower price.

Instagram has decided to take a leap forward with its latest announcement that it will now be allowing advertisements.

Union Government is going to launch the global partnership on solar energy at a conclave in New Delhi.

Modi announced at the Call for Action-Summit that India is officially free of neonatal-tetanus.

The Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS) will now see six people from different nationalities shut themselves inside a dome for a year in an isolated area in Hawaii.

Google has officially revealed the name of the latest mobile operating system - Android M as Marshmallow.

Having been found guilty of exceeding radiation limits set by the government in 2012, telcos like Bharti Airtel, Vodafone, Reliance and other major companies in India have been fined large amounts.

Aquila, Facebook's first full-scale aircraft launched under the internet.org initiative was fully constructed by the aerospace team in UK.

Google+ is on its way out; Google has spent the last few months taking it to pieces.

Microsoft has come out with the latest update to Windows- the Windows 10 improving on Windows 8.

The proposed cut of Rs 60 Billion in the healthcare budget and restrictions in health programmes sparked issues over the falling importance of AIDS programmes.

The biggest ever search for alien life, termed "Breakthrough Initiatives", with a funding of $100 million has been launched.

The latest iPod Touch released last week is almost as good as the iPhone 6, but cheaper and smaller, with the upgraded 64-bit A8 chip.

Upholding the concept of net neutrality, a high level government committee recommended that users will not be able to make free domestic calls using WhatsApp, Skype and Viber.

Muslims all around the world are in awe of Snapchat's 300-second long live story on Ramadan prayers in Mecca.

Around $3.4 billion in pledges were made at the United Nations to help West-African nations of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.

India launched its costliest heaviest space mission (weighing 1440 Kg) which has put 5 British satellites into the orbit after a magnificent takeoff.

NASA's probe New Horizons has sent a new image of the dwarf planet to reveal some of its geology to the scientists.

As an alternative to SecureCode, Mastercard is looking to introduce facial recognition as its security software which will ask the online shoppers for a selfie while making purchases.

Indian government's pet project Digital India got investments worth more than Rs 4.5 lakh crores from various industry players after the launch of the Digital India week.

SpaceX's Falcon-9 rocket went up in flames on 28 Jun'15.

Japan's SoftBank Corp along with Sunil Mittal's Bharti Enterprises and Taiwanese Foxconn will invest a staggering $20 billion to generate solar power in India.

After Punjab, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu, Airtel launched its 4G plan in Haryana. Hisar is the fourth city in Haryana to get 4G connectivity.

European Space Agency's Comet Lander-Philae woke up from its seven month long hibernation and sent a 300 data packet signal to ESA's operations at Darmstadt, Germany.

Calling the MERS outbreak 'large and complex', the WHO said that more cases were being expected.

Microsoft will partner with Oculus to supply a Xbox-One controller with every Virtual Reality (VR) Rift headset.

TV personality Montel Williams came out in the support of legalisation of medicinal marijuana in Pennsylvania, by sharing his thoughts in an op-ed column.

World Environment Day is a United Nations initiative started in 1972 and is celebrated on June 5. It aims at encouraging global awareness about the degrading state of our environment and calls for people to take some positive action. Run by United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), it has unique themes every year.

Google co-founder Sergey Brin has refused to provide the company's self-driven cars' accident reports, as demanded by the group Consumer Watchdog.

Typo Products and BlackBerry Ltd. have agreed to settle their patent war over the sale of smartphone keyboards.

According to Meizu's Facebook page, the Chinese mobile maker will most likely launch its products in India on 18 May.

CEO Gopal Vittal defended Airtel Zero amidst online campaigns that have urged users to defend India's net neutrality.