It must be little more than one hundred years since humans first set foot on Antarctica and even today few people have visited the frozen and hostile southern continent. Although nine countries have territorial claims on the continent, several of them ... Read More »
CO2 not only reason for curious spike in Earth’s temperature 55 million years ago
Washington, July 16 (ANI): A new research has left scientists puzzled as it indicates that something other than carbon dioxide (CO2) was also responsible for a curious spike in Earth’s temperature 55 million years ago. Over the past couple of ... Read More »
Now, hear what astronauts say to each other when no one’s listening!
Washington, July 16 (ANI): Thanks to a NASA website, people around the world would now be able to hear conversations between the crew of the Apollo 11 mission, which were done when the microphone was off. As Neil Armstrong, Buzz ... Read More »
Copernicus’ eyes were blue, not dark brown
Washington, July 10 (ANI): Father of modern astronomy Nicolaus Copernicus’ eye colour was blue and not dark brown, as had been believed earlier, revealed genetic research on the scientist’s remains. The study details the identification of the remains, and has ... Read More »
Shed of hairs identified by DNA analysis as belonging to Copernicus
Washington, July 8 (ANI): In a new DNA analysis of shed of hairs, Swedish and Polish scientists have identified the remains of famous astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, which were found under the cathedral in Frombork, Poland. Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 – 1543) ... Read More »
Astronomers spot a pair of solar systems in the making
Washington, July 2 (ANI): Two University of Hawaii astronomers have found a binary star-disk system in which each star is surrounded by the kind of dust disk that is frequently the precursor of a planetary system, which makes them solar ... Read More »
Earth’s most prominent rainfall feature creeping northward
Washington, July 2 (ANI): A new research has determined that the rain band near the equator that determines the supply of freshwater to nearly a billion people throughout the tropics and subtropics has been creeping north for more than 300 ... Read More »
Astronomers discover new class of black holes
London, July 2 (ANI): An international team of astronomers has discovered a new class of black hole, more than 500 times the mass of the Sun. Astronomers made the finding in a distant galaxy approximately 290 million light years from ... Read More »
Americans to see International Space Station on Fourth of July
Washington, July 1 (ANI): The skies of the Unites States of America are all set to lit up on the fourth of July with a spectacular view of the International Space Station (ISS) as it orbits 220 miles above Earth. ... Read More »
Introducing new hybrid of American chestnuts may mitigate climate change
Washington, June 11 (ANI): A new study by researchers at the Purdue University, US, has shown that that introducing a new hybrid of the American chestnut tree would not only bring back the all-but-extinct species, but also put a dent ... Read More »
Searching for aliens just got easier!
Washington, June 11 (ANI: Astronomers, using the William Herschel Telescope (WHT) on La Palma have confirmed an effective way to search the atmospheres of planets for signs of life, vastly improving our chances of finding alien life outside our solar ... Read More »
Broken dwarf planet may have scarred the Moon in early solar system
London, June 11 (ANI: A new analysis of craters of the Moon has suggested that the shattered remnants of a dwarf planet may have bombarded the inner planets in the early solar system. According to a report in New Scientist, ... Read More »
iew Earth’s clearest skies from Antarctic plateau, say scientists
London, June 8 (ANI): A research team has found that the Antarctic plateau offers world-beating atmospheric conditions to view possibly the clearest skies on Earth. According to a report in New Scientist, Michael Ashley of the University of New South ... Read More »
New technique may reveal how Earth’s continents were arranged 2.5 billion years ago
London, June 8 (ANI): Scientists have developed a new technique that allows them to recover rare minerals from rocks, which may helps piece together how the Earth’s continents were arranged 2.5 billion years ago. According to a report by BBC ... Read More »
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in safe mode after unexpected rebooting
Washington, June 6 (ANI): NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is in safe mode and in communications with Earth after an unexpected rebooting of its computer on the evening of June 3. The spontaneous reboot resembles a February 23 event on the ... Read More »