Sunday, 14 April 2013

An eye on the Hangul

An eye on the Hangul

An eye on the Hangul

The Dachigam National Park, habitat of the majestic Hangul, near Srinagar is these days in for an activity never witnessed in the Valley. Technology has ultimately changed what Harwan's legendary wildlife guard Qasim Wani did for decades before his death ...
NASA to make water on Moon?

NASA to make water on Moon?

NASA to make water on Moon? Washington: NASA is developing a Moon rover to find how water can be produced on the lunar surface by analysing liquid droplets trapped in deep freezes at its poles. Scheduled to fly in November 2017 the mission, called ...
Red wood ants: Now that is ant-icipation! German insects able to sense an ...

Red wood ants: Now that is ant-icipation! German insects able to sense an ...

Researchers have discovered red wood ants prefer to build their colonies along active faults, fractures where the Earth ruptures, in Germany. Gabriele Berberich, of the University of Duisburg-Essen, in Germany, said the behaviour of the ants significantly ...
Ice cloud over Titan

Ice cloud over Titan's south pole indicate fall on Saturn's moon

Washington, April 12(ANI): NASA's Cassini spacecraft has observed an ice cloud taking shape over Titan's south pole, the latest sign that the change of seasons is setting off a cascade of radical changes in the atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon. Made from ...
Hawaii land board grants use permit for $1.3B Thirty Meter Telescope

Hawaii land board grants use permit for $1.3B Thirty Meter Telescope

The Hawaii Board of Land and Natural Resources has granted a conservation district use permit for the $1.3 billion Thirty Meter Telescope, which will be built atop Mauna Kea on the Big Island. Janis L. Magin: Managing Editor- Pacific Business News: Email ...
Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin

Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin

MOSCOW, April 14 (RIA Novosti) – Russia could introduce tighter passport regulations for citizens of former Soviet states crossing Russia's borders already this year, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Sunday. Rogozin, who chairs Russia's State ...
Florida battles slimy invasion by giant snails

Florida battles slimy invasion by giant snails

By Barbara Liston. ORLANDO, Florida | Sun Apr 14, 2013 12:14pm EDT. ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - South Florida is fighting a growing infestation of one of the world's most destructive invasive species: the giant African land snail, which can grow as big as ...
Climate change: how a warming world is a threat to our food supplies

Climate change: how a warming world is a threat to our food supplies

When the Tunisian street vendor, Mohamed Bouazizi, set himself on fire on 17 December 2010, it was in protest at heavy-handed treatment and harassment in the province where he lived. But a host of new studies suggest that a major factor in the subsequent ...