100 billion Earth-like planets in our galaxy: Scientists

	100 billion Earth-like planets in our galaxy: Scientists This is a highly oblique image of northwestern African, capturing the curvature of the Earth and shows its atmosphere. (Photo Credit: NASA/JPL/UCSD/JSC). Related. NEWS. Outcast black holes living on the edge of our galaxy Milky Way's neighbour galaxy ...
	Indian academic develops intelligent robots in UK An Indian academic in the UK has developed humanoid robots which use artificial intelligence to take on humans and learn opponents' strategy as they play and try to win the traditional 'rock-scissors-paper' game. Dr Ram Ramamoorthy from Bangalore led ...
	Arctic Ocean records all time fifth lowest wintertime sea ice extent Arctic Ocean records all time fifth lowest wintertime sea ice extent Washington: After a record melt season last year, the Arctic Ocean's icy cover shrank to its lowest extent on record, continuing a long-term trend and diminishing to about half the size of the ...
	Artefacts offer Pacific shark species absence clues Nineteenth Century tools made from sharks' teeth suggest that two species of shark used to populate the Central Pacific but are no longer present. Using artefacts from museums, a team of US researchers found that spot-tail and dusky sharks used to inhabit ...
	Clouds Contributed to Record Greenland Ice Melt The culprit behind the record-shattering level of ice melting in Greenland in 2012 may have been low, thin clouds, new research suggests. These novel findings, detailed in the April 4 issue of the journal Nature, may help answer climate mysteries elsewhere ...
	Eyes in sky help when catastrophe strikes PARIS — Almost unknown to the public, a constellation of satellite guardians is flying overhead, and all it takes is a phone call for them to intervene when a country is hit by a storm, earthquake, tsunami or flood. Armed with cameras or ground radar, these ...
	Battling light pollution in the city The IDA fights excess of light pollution at night that damages our environment in many ways. Express. The International Dark-Sky Association (IDA), spread over 75 countries, will launch its operations in India beginning with the state capital on Friday. The IDA ...
	Geckos in harnesses keep grip even in some wet spots, study finds Scientists studying the secrets of gravity-defying geckos have discovered that the lizards' toes can grip certain surfaces even when wet. The findings, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could help scientists design sticky tape that ...
	Feast your eyes: The Small Magellanic Cloud For the first time astronomers detect the presence of X-rays being emitted from young stars resembling our sun outside of the Milky Way. Charles Cooper. by Charles Cooper. April 3, 2013 12:58 PM PDT Follow @coopeydoop. Feast your eyes: The Small ...