Rock defects below earth surface impact quakes
April 24th, 2012 - 1:37 pm ICT by IANS
Sydney, April 24 (IANS) Defects in rocks lying below the earth's surface can modify the impact of seismic waves generated by earthquakes, says a study by the Australian National University."We ... Read more...
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Cosmic chunk from the belly of 3rd largest asteroid found in space
January 7th, 2011 - 3:17 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Jan 7 (ANI): Scientists have found in space a chunk that was once a part of the third-largest asteroid.Using NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, experts at University of ... Read more...
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Gene linked to congenital heart defect found
December 7th, 2010 - 4:52 pm ICT by ANI
London, Dec 7 (ANI): New treatment for congenital heart defects may be on its way as Princeton researchers have identified the gene that can cause the birth defect.The newly discovered gene, called ... Read more...
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Scientists capture ’song’ of a distant star
November 8th, 2010 - 7:15 pm ICT by IANS
London, Nov 8 (IANS) Scientists have captured a hum emitted by a star trillions of miles away as part of new research that is providing insights into what lies beneath the surface ... Read more...
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Scientists come up with safer plastics
August 12th, 2010 - 3:10 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, August 11 (ANI): Scientists have discovered a new way of preventing potentially harmful plasticizers from migrating from one of the most widely used groups of plastics.The advance could lead to a ... Read more...
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Vodka taste lies in the tongue of the tippler
June 16th, 2010 - 1:35 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, June 16 (ANI): Vodka drinkers often display a preference for one brand of vodka over another. Now, scientists have found the reason behind it.Researchers are reporting the first identification of a ... Read more...
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‘Blacker than black’ metamaterial created
June 12th, 2010 - 5:13 pm ICT by ANI
London, June 12 (ANI): A "blacker than black" stuff has been created, which, according to scientists, is made of metamaterials that absorbs virtually all the light that hits it.Metamaterials exhibit optical properties ... Read more...
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Preference for a vodka brand may be in the drink, not in the head
June 8th, 2010 - 4:49 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, June 8 (ANI): Vodka drinkers often display a preference for one brand of vodka over another. Now, scientists have found the reason behind it.Researchers are reporting the first identification of ... Read more...
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Here’s how ice flows
May 8th, 2010 - 1:19 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, May 8 (ANI): Scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute have presented first results of a new measurement method in Antarctica.Dr. Olaf Eisen from the German Alfred Wegener Institute has presented results ... Read more...
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Customer service of commercial banks wanting: Subbarao
April 20th, 2010 - 1:38 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, April 20 (IANS) India's central bank Tuesday expressed dissatisfaction over the manner in which commercial banks treat their customers, even charging higher rates of interest than permissible, and has decided to ... Read more...
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Face of 2000 yr old Egyptian mummy reconstructed
March 8th, 2010 - 1:06 pm ICT by ANI
Barcelona, March 8 (ANI): Reports indicate that the Quiron Hospital of Barcelona has reconstructed the face of an Egyptian mummy from 2000 years ago.According to a report in the Barcelona Reporter, the ... Read more...
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Mars Express to unravel origin of mysterious moon Phobos
February 17th, 2010 - 5:53 pm ICT by ANI
Paris, Feb 17 (ANI): Reports indicate that Mars Express has begun a series of flybys of Phobos, the largest moon of Mars, which might untangle the origin of this mysterious moon.The latest ... Read more...
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Scientists identify oldest T. rex relative
November 4th, 2009 - 12:03 pm ICT by ANI
London, November 4 (ANI): Scientists have identified the most ancient fossil relative of the predatory dinosaur Tyrannosaurus rex.According to a report by BBC News, the new addition to T. rex's clan ... Read more...
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“Green bacteria” may be used to build artificial photosynthetic systems
May 5th, 2009 - 2:36 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, May 5 (ANI): An international team of scientists has determined the structure of the chlorophyll molecules in green bacteria that are responsible for harvesting light energy, which one day could be ... Read more...
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‘Shocking’ discovery may improve diesel engines
March 13th, 2009 - 2:10 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, March 13 (IANS) Scientists have found the interaction between shock waves created by high-pressure supersonic fuel jets. The discovery may lead to cleaner and more efficient internal combustion engines as well ... Read more...
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Digital model of 3.2 mln-yr-old Lucy may shed new light on human evolution
February 7th, 2009 - 4:02 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Feb 7 (ANI): Scientists have come up with a new high-resolution CT scan of Lucy, a famous 3.2 million-year-old skeleton, which will provide scientists around the globe with information that ... Read more...
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Scientists discover smallest terrestrial planet outside Solar System
February 4th, 2009 - 12:32 pm ICT by ANI
Amsterdam, Feb 4 (ANI): The European Space Agencys (ESAs) COROT space mission has found the smallest terrestrial planet ever detected outside the Solar System, which has a surface to walk on.The ... Read more...
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Ancient moon may have had Earth-like core
January 16th, 2009 - 12:26 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Jan 16 (ANI): A new study has suggested that the moon, in its ancient past, had an Earth-like core, which may explain its mysterious magnetic field.Magnetic moon rocks picked up ... Read more...
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Male dinos may have been prehistoric babysitters
December 19th, 2008 - 12:22 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Dec 19 (ANI): A new study has indicated that ferocious meat-eating male dinosaurs possibly had a softer side as well, as they might have been sort of prehistoric babysitters.The study ... Read more...
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World’’s oldest cooked cereal was prepared just like todays instant food
October 25th, 2008 - 3:41 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, October 25 (ANI): The worlds oldest cooked cereal, enjoyed by European diners about 8,000 years ago, could be prepared instantly just by soaking it in hot water.
The researchers behind ... Read more...
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COROT detects stellar quakes in other stars for the first time
October 24th, 2008 - 12:47 pm ICT by ANI
Paris, Oct 24 (ANI): The COROT satellite has used a technique similar to seismology to detect the presence of stellar quakes in three stars, an observation that has been made for ... Read more...
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Baking makes implants as real as natural bones
July 9th, 2008 - 12:47 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, July 9 (ANI): Experts at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Applied Materials Research say that they have developed a simulation program that may make it easy to produce ... Read more...
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Cricket bowls over Toronto city
May 27th, 2008 - 1:16 pm ICT by admin
Ontario (Canada), May 27 (ANI): Cricket has become a booming passion in Canadas Toronto District.
School cricket is big in the area, as about 150 schools in the Greater Toronto Area offer ... Read more...
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Hubble releases 59 new images of colliding galaxies
April 25th, 2008 - 3:59 pm ICT by admin
Paris, April 25 (ANI): A series of 59 new images of colliding galaxies, the largest collection ever published simultaneously, has been released from archived raw Hubble space telescope images.The Hubble, ... Read more...
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CT scan of baby mammoth provides detailed look of internal organs
April 12th, 2008 - 1:12 pm ICT by admin
Washington, April 12 (ANI): Scientists have performed a CT scan on the frozen body of a 37,000-year-old baby woolly mammoth discovered last year in Arctic Russia, providing a detailed internal look ... Read more...
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Dont manipulate Pak politics, it may backfire: Kissinger advises US admin
March 11th, 2008 - 1:02 pm ICT by admin
Washington, Mar 11 (ANI): Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has urged upon the US administration not to manipulate the political process in Pakistan, as, he said, it may backfire.He ... Read more...
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Mapping the interior of interstellar clouds might shed light on stellar nurseries
March 8th, 2008 - 1:35 pm ICT by admin
Munich, March 8 (ANI): Astronomers have measured the distribution of mass inside a dark filament in a molecular cloud with an amazing level of detail and to great depth, which would allow ... Read more...
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X-rays to bring nanoscale materials and bio specimens up close
February 26th, 2008 - 3:49 pm ICT by admin
New York, Feb 26 (IANS) X-rays have taken pictures of broken bones for decades, but scientists have now refined them to capture images of ultra-small particles in nano and bio-materials, including cellular ... Read more...
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