Communication to Mars rovers to be hit in April

	Communication to Mars rovers to be hit in April MUMBAI: Communications between ground stations and Nasa spacecraft at Mars will be affected in April because of the position of the planets, an announcement from the space agency said on Thursday. TOI has learnt that this will happen from April 4.
	The sparrow expedition “There was a time when we woke up to their 'chirp chirp' every morning. They sat on the power lines; flew about the village feeding on the cholam and paddy …there were so many of them. Where have they gone now?” wonders R. Mahadeven, the ...
	Why Voyager 1's solar system exit is so hard to predict NASA's Voyager 1 probe is tantalizingly close to the edge of the solar system, but predicting when it will finally pop free into interstellar space is a challenging proposition, mission team members say. Voyager 1 is plying new and exotic terrain at the limits of ...
	Raj Aggarwal commissioned as first Indian diplomat in Wales LONDON: Raj K Aggarwal, an Anglo-Indian pharmacist and businessman, has been commissioned as the first Indian diplomat in Wales at a special ceremony. India's high commissioner to the UK, Dr Jaimini Bhagwati presented the Commission of ...
	India's first Mars Orbit mission, an exciting opportunity for collaboration: US India's first Mars Orbit mission this year offers an exciting opportunity for the collaboration between the two countries in this field, a senior US official has said. "We should seek to increase our commercial space cooperation and create opportunities for US and ...
	Do men have an evolutionary aversion to affairs with their friends wives? Men seem to be biologically designed to avoid becoming sexually attracted to their friends' wives, research claims. A University of Missouri study that found adult males' testosterone levels dropped when they were interacting with the spouse of a close friend.
	Scientists revise Big Bang theory A NEW examination of what is essentially the universe's birth certificate allows astronomers to tweak the age, girth and speed of the cosmos, more secure in their knowledge of how it evolved, what it's made of and its ultimate fate. Sure, the universe suddenly ...
	Mega volcanoes responsible for mass extinctions on Earth? Massive volcanic eruptions may have led to the extermination of half of Earth's species some 200 million years ago, a new study suggests. The release of gases from giant eruptions caused climate change that led to the End-Triassic Extinction, the widespread ...
	Live updates: Earth Hour 2013 More than 150 Indian cities will participate in the Earth Hour on Saturday, joining over 7,000 other cities across the world in raising awareness about climate change and its impact. Across the world, over 150 countries will participate in the event on March 23.
	Massive Monsoons Sweep Across Northern Hemisphere: Increased Rainfall Not ... (Photo : Owen Shieh/University of Hawaii) There's been an unexpected increase in the monsoon rainfall in the Northern Hemisphere and for once, global warming isn't to blame. This is a three-layered cloud structure in a developing Madden-Julian Oscillation ...