Saturday, 23 March 2013

US moots step-up in commercial space cooperation with India

US moots step-up in commercial space cooperation with India

US moots step-up in commercial space cooperation with India

The United States has begun making the case for increased cooperation in commercial space exploration with India, saying it would create opportunities for American and Indian companies. At a meeting of the US-India Civil Space Joint Working Group that ...
Meteor captured on camera in US

Meteor captured on camera in US

A security camera above a car yard in Seaford, Delaware, and another in Maryland captured footage of what appeared to be a meteor travelling across the skyline late on Friday. Bill Cooke of Nasa's Meteoroid Environmental Office said the meteor was widely ...
Team Indus: Lone Indian in Google Lunar X Prize competition Rahul Narayan is ...

Team Indus: Lone Indian in Google Lunar X Prize competition Rahul Narayan is ...

NEW DELHI: There comes an age in everybody's life when you must lock up your childhood fantasies. Rahul Narayan is well past that age. He has a family to feed. He is 39. He has neither rich parents, nor indulgent benefactors. He has sunk all his savings ...
Planck space probe boosts Big Bang theory

Planck space probe boosts Big Bang theory

New results from a look into the split second after the Big Bang indicate the universe is 80 million years older than previously thought but the core concepts of the cosmos how it began, what it's made of and where it's going seem to be on the right track.
Do men have an evolutionary aversion to affairs with their friends wives?

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.
Phuket turned off for Happy Earth Hour

Phuket turned off for Happy Earth Hour

PHUKET: Although there will be no official event tonight to mark Earth Hour 2013, the chief of the Phuket office of the Provincial Electricity Authority (PPEA) is urging people to join the global event to show their support for conserving energy. “It is a very good ...
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.
Mass extinction 200 million years ago has lessons for today

Mass extinction 200 million years ago has lessons for today

Palisade Sill near Alpine, N.J., has geologic remnants of the end-Triassic extinction event. That's ancient lava you are looking at. Credit: Terrance Blackburn and Paul Olsen. Climate change and ocean acidification likely wiped out nearly 80 percent of marine ...
Asteroid hitting earth cannot be stopped, NASA and US dont have expertise

Asteroid hitting earth cannot be stopped, NASA and US dont have expertise

It is a doomsday scenario as NASA says that asteroid hitting earth cannot be stopped as the USA doesn't have expertise to do it. Right now its only advice in such worst case scenario is nothing but to pray to God. After the meteorite that hit Russian Urals, there ...