Scientists uncover vast hydrogen reserves in nearby galaxies
June 3rd, 2012 - 11:21 am ICT by IANS
Sydney, June 3 (IANS) More atomic hydrogen gas, which fuels the creation of universe - is lurking in space than previous estimates, according to the first accurate measurement of the ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Snobbish bugs prefer coffee for beverage
June 8th, 2011 - 2:03 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, June 8 (IANS) Human beings may have made a cult out of drinking caffeine, but now it seems they are not the only species doing it.Four different strains of ... Read more...
Posted in World |
How cosmic dust shape the twinkling stars
November 23rd, 2010 - 1:13 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Nov 23 (ANI): Want to know about the formation of stars? Well, scientists have found that cosmic dust is a vital ingredient that shapes them.Astronomers also said that is important for ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Antimatter breakthrough could prove very critical for the scientists
November 19th, 2010 - 8:05 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
New York, Nov 19 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Scientists have announced that they have made a major breakthrough in their quest to solve one of the greatest riddles in history- antimatter.Scientists have been puzzled ... Read more...
Posted in Sci-Tech |
Scientists unveil secrets of exploding plasma clouds on Sun
November 9th, 2010 - 7:09 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Nov 09 (ANI): Scientists have shed light on the explosion of plasma clouds on the Sun.The Sun sporadically expels trillions of tons of million-degree hydrogen gas in explosions called coronal mass ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
New form of uranium could power your car
October 6th, 2010 - 2:46 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Oct 06 (ANI): Scientists have discovered a new form of uranium that could lead to a nuclear power plant small enough to fit in your car and eventually even power it.Scientists ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Magnetic anomalies shielding Moon’s surface from solar winds
September 24th, 2010 - 5:07 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Sept 24 (ANI): Scientists have discovered that magnetized regions called magnetic anomalies, mostly on the far side of the Moon, strongly deflected the solar wind, shielding the Moon's surface.This will help ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Hubble telescope shows dust pillars in Carina Nebula
September 17th, 2010 - 5:41 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Sep 17 (ANI): Using Hubble Space Telescope, scientists have observed one-light-year-tall pillars of cold hydrogen and dust in the Carina Nebula.Violent stellar winds and powerful radiation from massive stars are ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
NASA’s IBEX spacecraft reveals space as never seen before
August 17th, 2010 - 4:34 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Aug 17 (ANI): NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft has surpassed its mission objectives with images that reveal the interactions between our home in the galaxy and interstellar space to be ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
How stars were born
July 7th, 2010 - 4:56 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, July 7 (ANI): In a new study, researchers have explained how the stars-claimed to be the generators of elements that formed the universe-came into being in the first place.New research from ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Scientists Replicate The Sound Of ‘God Particle’
June 24th, 2010 - 7:41 pm ICT by Pen Men At Work
June 24, 2010 (Pen Men at Work): Scientists have replicated the sounds geared up to be executed by sub-atomic particles such as the Higgs boson. This will happen when they are ... Read more...
Posted in Sci-Tech |
Vodka’s taste, quality depends on variable microstructures
June 3rd, 2010 - 3:33 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, June 03 (ANI): The taste and quality of vodka depends on its microstructures, which can be altered by impurities and shaking, scientists have found.Vodka's water molecules, experts say, form cagelike structures ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
New star-forming regions in Milky Way discovered
May 27th, 2010 - 5:53 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, May 27 (ANI): Astronomers have discovered new star-forming regions in Milky Way.Thomas Bania, of Boston University, said: "We can clearly relate the locations of these star-forming sites to the overall structure ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
New star forming regions found in Milky Way
May 27th, 2010 - 12:00 pm ICT by IANS
Los Angeles, May 27 (IANS) Astronomers have discovered a large number of previously unknown regions in the Milky Way where massive stars are being formed.
The star-forming H II regions are sites where ... Read more...
Posted in Sci-Tech |
Cosmic ‘dandruff’ could have brought carbon to Earth
May 7th, 2010 - 1:49 pm ICT by ANI
London, May 7 (ANI): Cosmic 'dandruff'- fluffy specks of carbon-rich dust found in Antarctic snow seem to be relics from the dawn of the solar system, when the planets were still forming- ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Life on Saturn’s moon would have been strange, smelly and explosive
April 13th, 2010 - 6:06 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Apr 13 (ANI): Had life evolved on the frozen surface of Saturn's moon, Titan, it would have been strange, smelly and explosive compared to life on Earth, according to a research.Astrobiologist ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Warp speed thrills, but kills
February 17th, 2010 - 3:53 pm ICT by ANI
London, Feb 17 (ANI): Scientists have determined that the concept of warp speed, proposed in sci-fi shows like 'Star Trek', may actually take the lives of the crew of a spaceship ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Scientists freeze water with heat
February 13th, 2010 - 1:57 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Feb 13 (ANI): In what is a bizarre trick, scientists have come up with a way that can make water freeze solid as it's heating up.Popular belief contends that water freezes ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
World’s first molecular transistor created
January 13th, 2010 - 2:26 pm ICT by ANI
Melbourne, Jan 13 (ANI): Scientists from the US and South Korea have managed to create the world's smallest transistor from only six atoms of carbonsuspended between two gold electrodes.A transistor is ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Comets may have delivered water on Moon
November 21st, 2009 - 2:30 pm ICT by ANI
London, November 21 (ANI): Evidence from NASA's LCROSS mission has suggested that water found in the lunar impact recently was delivered by comets rather than forming on the surface through an interaction ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
How to expand storage limit for hydrogen to power ‘green’ cars
October 25th, 2009 - 1:44 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, October 25 (ANI): A team of chemical engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has developed a computational model that shows that carbon nanotubes may expand the storage limit for ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Graphane may help make tiny strips of graphene needed for electronic circuits
August 1st, 2009 - 4:54 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, August 1 (ANI): In a new research, scientists have explained how their discovery of graphane could make it easier for the production of tiny strips of graphene needed for electronic circuits. ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
NASA spacecraft detects ultra fast hydrogen coming from Moon
June 19th, 2009 - 3:10 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, June 19 (ANI): NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft has made the first observations of very fast hydrogen atoms coming from the Moon, following decades of speculation and searching for their ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
World’s heaviest material may be future energy source
May 12th, 2009 - 5:00 pm ICT by IANS
Berlin, May 12 (IANS) German scientists have arguably created the world's heaviest material, known as 'ultra-dense deuterium', a 10-cm cube of which would weigh as much as a steam locomotive or 130 ... Read more...
Posted in Sci-Tech |
Supernovae originate from dying red supergiant stars
March 20th, 2009 - 6:07 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, March 20 (ANI): A team of scientists has confirmed the origin of supernovae as being produced from dying red supergiant stars.
The scientists are from the Dark Cosmology Centre at ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Organic computing comes closer to reality
January 30th, 2009 - 2:53 pm ICT by ANI
London, Jan 30 (ANI): Scientists from University of Manchester, UK have found a novel way of controlling the conductive nature of graphene a finding that will pave way for efficient all-carbon ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Scientists new find way to produce hydrogen
January 23rd, 2009 - 4:01 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Jan 23 (ANI): Scientists have discovered a way to produce hydrogen by exposing selected clusters of aluminum atoms to water.Scientists at Penn State University and the Virginia Commonwealth University ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Gravity plays larger role in star formation than previously thought
January 1st, 2009 - 2:52 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Jan 1 (ANI): New computer visualization technology developed by researchers at Harvard University has helped astrophysicists understand that gravity plays a larger role than previously thought in deep spaces vast, ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Mystery of Venuss vanishing water may be solved soon
December 19th, 2008 - 2:38 pm ICT by ANI
Paris, Dec 19 (ANI): With Venus Express making the first detection of an atmospheric loss process on the planets day-side, scientists have come closer to understanding where did all the water ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Scientists observe one of the strongest solar flares of the past 30 years
December 16th, 2008 - 5:35 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Dec 16 (ANI): Scientists at the California Institute of Technology, US, have observed one of the strongest solar flares of the past 30 years.Solar flares are the most powerful ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Single solar flare releases destructive equivalent of 100 mn H-bombs
December 16th, 2008 - 12:33 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Dec 16 (IANS) A solar flare can release the destructive equivalent of a 100 million hydrogen bombs, obliterating everything in its neighbourhood, including every single atom, according to scientists."We've detected a ... Read more...
Posted in Sci-Tech |
APEX reveals glowing stellar nurseries
November 12th, 2008 - 1:01 pm ICT by ANI
Munich, Nov 12 (ANI): The Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope has revealed how an expanding bubble of ionised gas about ten light-years across is causing the surrounding material to collapse into ... Read more...
Posted in National |
Gene that helps corals adapt to day and night revealed
September 13th, 2008 - 2:30 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, September 13 (ANI): Researchers have uncovered a gene in corals that responds to day/night cycles, which provides some tantalizing clues into how symbiotic corals work together with their plankton partners. ... Read more...
Posted in National |
Kalam says ”Big Bang ”experiment” spells no trouble
September 10th, 2008 - 7:09 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Sept.10 (ANI): Indian space programme architect and former president, Dr.A.P.J Abdul Kalam said on Wednesday that the ''Big Bang experiment'' is an important contribution to physics and dispelled all ... Read more...
Posted in Entertainment |
New test raises hope for early arthritis diagnosis
August 23rd, 2008 - 1:35 pm ICT by ANI
London, Aug 23 (ANI): A new way of scanning joints that promises to diagnose arthritis in its early stages could soon be available, thanks to the efforts of a group of ... Read more...
Posted in National |