Monday, 8 April 2013

dna exclusive: Comet Mars Isro's Rs450cr dream mission

dna exclusive: Comet Mars Isro

dna exclusive: Comet Mars Isro's Rs450cr dream mission

India's Mars mission is suffering from birth pangs. A comet heading towards the planet could derail Indian Space Research Organisation's (Isro) project, worth Rs450 crore, scheduled to take off in October-November this year. Scientists are now exploring the ...
NASA selects MIT-led TESS project for 2017 mission

NASA selects MIT-led TESS project for 2017 mission

Following a three-year competition, NASA has selected the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) project at MIT for a planned launch in 2017. The space agency announced the mission — to be funded by a $200 million grant to the MIT-led team — this ...
Rising sea levels threat to Kolkata, Shanghai, Dhaka: Pachauri

Rising sea levels threat to Kolkata, Shanghai, Dhaka: Pachauri

Rising sea levels due to climate change are threatening the survival of big cities located near coastal areas like Kolkata, Shanghai and Dhaka, said Dr R K Pachauri, chairperson of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. ET SPECIAL: Samsung ...
Buzz Aldrin wants a human colony on Mars by the 2030s

Buzz Aldrin wants a human colony on Mars by the 2030s

IF NOTHING beats being an astronaut, man-on-the-moon Buzz Aldrin has got career infamy pretty much licked. Still riveted by craters, missions, orbits, weightlessness ad living on Mars, Buzz, who followed his pal Neil Armstrong onto the moon back in 1969, ...
Air pollution impacts coral growth, scientists report

Air pollution impacts coral growth, scientists report

Coral reefs are truly a beautiful piece of our world, and yet they are also extremely useful. The reefs are home to a large and varied group of plants and animals, and are in fact the most diverse of all ocean ecosystems. Twenty five percent of all ocean species ...
Air travel to get bumpier as CO2 emissions rise, scientists say

Air travel to get bumpier as CO2 emissions rise, scientists say

Mon Apr 8, 2013 10:00am EDT. * Turbulence to become more frequent, stronger by mid-century. * CO2 emissions forecast to double by 2050. By Nina Chestney. LONDON, April 8 (Reuters) - Turbulence on transatlantic flights will become more frequent and ...
Cosmic Yawning by Moon

Cosmic Yawning by Moon

Moon intensifies the lovely energy it radiates as it passes into Aries in the latter day. Aries (March 21-April 19): it would instigate feeling of no control that could lead to counterintuitive behaviors. You are advised to discuss it with a close friend or a guide to ...
Americans

Americans' Concerns About Global Warming on the Rise

PRINCETON, NJ -- U.S. worry about global warming is heading back up after several years of expanded public skepticism. Views on the subject are now near the midpoint in Gallup trends, exemplified by the 58% of Americans who say they worry a great deal ...
LIME spa at the Huvafen Fushi resort in the Maldives claims to be the first ...

LIME spa at the Huvafen Fushi resort in the Maldives claims to be the first ...

Share. 0. Why bother with a seaside massage when you can have an under-the-sea massage? Huvafen Fushi, a luxury resort in the Maldives, is home to what it claims is the world's first underwater spa. The spa, named LIME, has added new treatments like ...
Can we grow a stronger-than-steel

Can we grow a stronger-than-steel 'wonder material' to save the world?

It's stiffer than Kevlar, thinner than paper, and in a few years, it may be mass-produced using only sunlight and water. Scientists in the US this week announced a new, and potentially groundbreaking method for producing nanocellulose — a so-called "wonder ...