Thursday, 21 March 2013

Let sparrows chirp in our homes

Let sparrows chirp in our homes

Let sparrows chirp in our homes

Students of K'sirs International School will work with the residents of Chinnavedampatty village to improve the sparrow population there. The students will distribute handbills to the residents, educate them on the importance of sparrows and encourage them to ...
Ancient universe revealed by cosmic map

Ancient universe revealed by cosmic map

This image may look like a finely-speckled Easter egg but it is actually a map of the oldest light in the sky, which holds the secrets of the birth and death of our universe. It shows that 13.8bn years ago the newborn universe inflated a trillion trillion trillion times ...
Astronomers discover some of the youngest stars ever seen

Astronomers discover some of the youngest stars ever seen

The young stars, called protostars, are surrounded by extremely dense pockets of gas and dust. By Max Sonnenberg, The Space Reporter Thursday, March 21, 2013. Astronomers have discovered some of the youngest stars ever seen, according to a news ...
Voyager 1 leaves the solar system: Nasa is sort of unsure (video)

Voyager 1 leaves the solar system: Nasa is sort of unsure (video)

This is proving very difficult to clearly spell out. 'Voyager 1 leaves the solar system' went viral when Nasa said that it was not sure if it has actually left it (video). Voyager I has conquered the unreachable. Where no man or spacecraft can reach, Voyager 1 truly ...
Apollo rocket engines recovered by Bezos team

Apollo rocket engines recovered by Bezos team

Two long-lost engines from Apollo-era rockets have been hauled from a depth of more than 4km in the Atlantic Ocean. The F-1 engines are from the first stage of a Saturn rocket, which were used throughout the Apollo programme - one of which launched men ...
To boldly go: Astronaut

To boldly go: Astronaut's guide to space station's zero gravity toilets

Right, we've reached the final frontier. Now where do we go… because I'm bursting. Apparently it's all a question of docking and alignment when it comes to using the smallest room in the universe. And those clever people at Nasa reckon they have solved the ...
Chimps Trade Tools To Help Out Pals

Chimps Trade Tools To Help Out Pals

Chimps who work together know what their partners need to achieve a goal, and they're happy to lend a helping hand, recent research finds. The study demonstrates that humans' close primate relatives are true team players, perhaps revealing the ...
NASA chief: Earth is DOOMED if we spot a big asteroid at short notice

NASA chief: Earth is DOOMED if we spot a big asteroid at short notice

Billions of dollars are needed to keep the Earth safe from asteroids like the one that smashed into Russia last month, experts have told the US government. Planetoid crashes into primordial Earth. While NASA has made good progress cataloguing nearly 93 ...
Research confirms rich rare earths in mud from Pacific seabed

Research confirms rich rare earths in mud from Pacific seabed

Research confirms rich rare earths in mud from Pacific seabed Tokyo: A deep sea survey near a remote Japanese island in the Pacific has confirmed a rich deposit of rare earth minerals in mud taken from the seabed, a Japanese research team said today.
Breakneck star orbits black hole at record speed

Breakneck star orbits black hole at record speed

Vid The ESA's XMM-Newton has turned up a star and black hole, separated by around a million kilometres, orbiting each other in just 2.4 hours. The pair outstrips the previous record of 3.2 hours for an orbit, held by Swift J1753.5-0127. The speed at which ...