Tuesday, 23 April 2013

Google celebrates Earth Day with an interesting doodle

Google celebrates Earth Day with an interesting doodle

Google celebrates Earth Day with an interesting doodle

Popular search engine Google celebrated World Earth Day 2013 on April 22 with an interesting and interacting 3D doodle which intends creating awareness against a common enemy called “climate change”. Earth Day 2013 aims to raise awareness among ...
Sun-watching observatory turns 3

Sun-watching observatory turns 3

Three years ago, NASA launched the Solar Dynamics Observatory on an Atlas rocket from Cape Canaveral. Since that time, the millions of images returned have given us an unprecedented understanding of the sun. This image is a composite of 25 images ...
Higgs boson: Call to rename particle to acknowledge other scientists

Higgs boson: Call to rename particle to acknowledge other scientists

One of the scientists who helped develop the theory of the Higgs boson says the particle should be renamed. Carl Hagen believes the name should acknowledge the work of others - not just UK physicist Peter Higgs. The long-running debate has been ...
Biodiversity

Biodiversity's brain centre is here

The National Biodiversity Authority and the Division of Nature Management, Norway have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to establish the first ever Centre for Biodiversity Policy and Law (CEBPOL) in Chennai. Addressing reporters after ...
Space debris collisions expected to rise

Space debris collisions expected to rise

Unless space debris is actively tackled, some satellite orbits will become extremely hazardous over the next 200 years, a new study suggests. The research found that catastrophic collisions would likely occur every five to nine years at the altitudes used ...
Microraptor: A 4-Winged, Fish-Eating Dinosaur

Microraptor: A 4-Winged, Fish-Eating Dinosaur

Fossilized guts reveal that Microraptor — a four-winged, flying dinosaur — had an unusual taste for fish. Located near the fossil's ribs, a mass of fish bones bearing the mark of strong digestive acids suggests the crow-sized reptile's prey veered from the ...
Comet smash behind mysterious water on Jupiter

Comet smash behind mysterious water on Jupiter

Comet smash behind mysterious water on Jupiter London: The mysterious traces of water in the upper atmosphere of Jupiter came from a comet that smashed into the largest planet of the solar system in 1994, the European Space agency (ESA) has found.
Last 30 years were the warmest in the last 1400 years

Last 30 years were the warmest in the last 1400 years

From 1971 to 2000, the world's land areas were the warmest they have been in at least 1,400 years, according to a new study in Nature Geoscience. The massive new study, involving 80 researchers from around the world with the Past Global Changes ...
Sun has 5 billion years left: Physicist Brian Schmidt

Sun has 5 billion years left: Physicist Brian Schmidt

Sun has 5 billion years left: Physicist Brian Schmidt Madrid: The universe will continue expanding and the objects which it is composed of will move apart faster, causing stars, such as the Sun, to become fainter, although in the case of the Sun this will not ...