Monday, 20 May 2013

Climate change slowdown is real: extreme rate of warming not likely now

Climate change slowdown is real: extreme rate of warming not likely now

Climate change slowdown is real: extreme rate of warming not likely now

Unlike common perception climate change slowdown is real and here to stay. On the other hand extreme rate of warming not likely now. By Parwinder Sandhu. The small steps taken by the earthlings towards saving its planet from the increasing global ...
Observe

Observe 'dance of the planets' from May 24

The last week of May will observe a rare and beautiful cosmic choreography immediately after sunset. You will be able to see a “dance” of the planets followed by their vertical alignment on May 30 and 31 in the evening sky. It will be an astonishing view for ...

'Drying' DNA pool stalks Indian tigers

LONDON: A diminishing gene pool is posing a grave threat to Indian tigers. Scientists say the famed big cats of India are facing a serious threat of extinction owing to a 'collapse' in the variety of their mating partners. Welsh researchers say tigers were nearly ...
Indian dolphin, elephant among top 100 mammals facing extinction: Zoological ...

Indian dolphin, elephant among top 100 mammals facing extinction: Zoological ...

The Zoological Society of London have for the first time scored the world's mammals according to how Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered (EDGE) they are. LONDON: India's Gangetic river dolphin and wild elephants figure in the latest 100 top ...
Everything under control. Mission to Mars on track

Everything under control. Mission to Mars on track

The Rs 450 crore mission to Red Planet will be India's most complex mission till date. With just over six months left for the launch of India's first interplanetary mission — the Mars orbiter —the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) is leaving no stone ...
Olive Ridleys hit highs and lows

Olive Ridleys hit highs and lows

In about a couple of weeks, the last batch of Olive Ridley hatchlings will flap their tiny flippers and waddle into the sea. That will bring to a close a breeding season that has evoked mixed reactions among conservationists. During the season, around 200 ...
Scientists from Switzerland created World

Scientists from Switzerland created World's Smallest Droplets

Scientists from Switzerland created the smallest drops of liquid ever made in the lab. Scientists carried out a series of experiments at the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and most powerful particle collider located at the European Laboratory for ...
Mars Rover Studied about Rock Esperance Weathered by Water

Mars Rover Studied about Rock Esperance Weathered by Water

Mars Rover, Opportunity of NASA in the third week of May 2013 completed examining the fractured rocks on Mars, the red planet those were altered by water. The rover was searching for the evidences of the wet ancient environment that possibly favoured the ...
Huge asteroid to fly past Earth this month

Huge asteroid to fly past Earth this month

A big asteroid will cruise by Earth at the end of the month, making its closest approach to our planet for at least the next two centuries. The May 31 flyby of asteroid 1998 QE2, which is about 1.7 miles long, poses no threat to Earth. The space rock will come ...
Crack Army pilot to be first PROPER British astronaut IN SPAAAACE

Crack Army pilot to be first PROPER British astronaut IN SPAAAACE

Ex-Apache helicopter pilot Tim Peake will be the first bona fide British astronaut - and will live and work on the International Space Station. Tim Peake training in a Soyuz simulator. Peake performance ... Tim trains in a Soyuz simulator (Credit: ESA) ...