London Paralympics open in ‘journey of discovery’
August 30th, 2012 - 4:43 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 30 (IANS) London Paralympic Games were officially opened in a storytelling ceremony highlighted by "a journey of discovery" Wednesday night.Guided by the world's most celebrated scientist, Professor ... Read more...
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Canada unveils device for big space telescope
July 26th, 2012 - 2:54 pm ICT by IANS
Ottawa, July 26 (IANS) The Canadian Space Agency has unveiled a precision equipment that will be used on the James Webb Space Telescope, the successor to the Hubble.The Webb, ... Read more...
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Scientists recreate more ‘mini Big Bangs’
December 5th, 2010 - 5:16 pm ICT by IANS
London, Dec 5 (IANS) Scientists have again recreated the primordial soup that existed in the galaxy just moments after the Big Bang using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).The super-hot 'quark-gluon plasma' ... Read more...
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Planck Telescope Returns The First Image Of The Universe
July 6th, 2010 - 7:50 pm ICT by Pen Men At Work
July 6, 2010 (Pen Men at Work): The Planck Telescope, which was launched in May 2009, has recorded the first view of the universe with clouds of interstellar gas and ... Read more...
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Cosmic clocks can help unravel universe’s mysteries
June 25th, 2010 - 6:16 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, June 25 (ANI): Scientists have come up with a new technique that will turn pulsars - natural cosmic clocks - into accurate time-keepers. The work will improve studies of the origins ... Read more...
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‘Big Bang Machine’ experiment successful: CERN
March 30th, 2010 - 8:00 pm ICT by ANI
Geneva, Mar 30(ANI): Scientists at Geneva's European Centre for Nuclear Research or CERN marked a breakthrough in their efforts to understand the origins of the universe on Tuesday, as they successfully ... Read more...
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NASA jumbo jet plans to unlock origins of the universe
December 19th, 2009 - 1:31 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, December 19 (ANI): A NASA jumbo jet that will help scientists unlock the origins of the universe with infrared observations reached a milestone on December 18 when doors covering the plane's ... Read more...
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‘Big Bang Machine’ sets new energy record
November 30th, 2009 - 5:52 pm ICT by ANI
London, November 30 (ANI): The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) has said that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), popularly known as the 'big bang machine', has set a world record ... Read more...
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NASA unveils first images from revamped Hubble
September 10th, 2009 - 1:54 am ICT by IANS
Washington, Sep 10 (DPA) NASA scientists Wednesday unveiled the first images taken by a revamped Hubble telescope, providing even crisper pictures of distant stars and galaxies.
The colourful images provide a taste of ... Read more...
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Clear images of starburst galaxies reveal new picture of early universe
May 28th, 2009 - 2:35 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, May 28 (ANI): A telescope designed by a University of Miami physicist and an international team of collaborators has produced the clearest images of starburst galaxies, revealing a new picture of ... Read more...
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Revamped Hubble ready to tackle universe’s big questions
May 21st, 2009 - 11:07 am ICT by IANS
By Anne K. Walters
Washington, May 21 (DPA) Five straight days of intense and dangerous repair work have sharpened the vision of the Hubble Space Telescope and prepared it to once again ... Read more...
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Astronauts install device on Hubble to study cosmic origins
May 17th, 2009 - 7:49 am ICT by IANS
Washington, May 17 (DPA) Astronauts John Grunsfeld and Andrew Feustel installed new equipment Saturday on the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope to help scientists study the origins of the universe.
US space agency ... Read more...
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Largest ever telescope launched from French Guiana
May 15th, 2009 - 12:46 am ICT by IANS
Paris, May 14 (DPA) Riding an Ariane 5 rocket, the world's largest telescope was launched Thursday from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana on a mission to investigate the origins of the ... Read more...
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Worlds fastest supercomputer for science revealed
November 18th, 2008 - 12:05 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, November 18 (ANI): A high-performance computing system at the Department of Energy''s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been proclaimed the worlds fastest supercomputer for science.
The Cray XT, called Jaguar, ... Read more...
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Stephen Hawking to retire as Cambridges Professor of Mathematics next year
October 24th, 2008 - 2:37 pm ICT by ANI
London, Oct 24 (ANI): Stephen Hawking, renowned scientist, will retire as Cambridge Universitys Professor of Mathematics on October 1, 2009.According to a report in the Telegraph, Hawking will continue his work ... Read more...
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Engineers complete world’s largest scientific instrument
March 1st, 2008 - 11:16 am ICT by admin
Geneva, March 1 (IANS) Engineers have lowered a 9.3-metre wheel down a 100 metre shaft to complete what has been described a the world's largest scientific instrument - a nuclear particle accelerator ... Read more...
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