Tuesday, 28 May 2013

Moon craters may hold remains of ancient asteroids

Moon craters may hold remains of ancient asteroids

Moon craters may hold remains of ancient asteroids

The findings suggest that scientists may have to work a little harder to figure out what the Moon is made of. Photo: NASA. New York, May 28: Around 25 per cent of the Moon's impact craters may preserve substantial pieces of the asteroids that created them, ...
Salinity drop hits Chilika bird count this year

Salinity drop hits Chilika bird count this year

BERHAMPUR: Close to 18,000 birds have shunned the biggest waterfowl habitat in the country this summer, as compared to last year. This season, 59,687 birds of different species have visited the 1,100-sq km lake, the summer bird count conducted by the ...
Researchers Revived Centuries-Old Frozen Plants Called Bryophytes from ...

Researchers Revived Centuries-Old Frozen Plants Called Bryophytes from ...

Researchers at the University of Alberta announced that the plants which were frozen centuries ago were sprouting with new growth. Samples of the bryophytes, 400-year-old plants bloomed under certain laboratory conditions. Researchers declared that this ...
Researchers turn cement into metal

Researchers turn cement into metal

Close-up visualizations of (A) the HOMO and (B) LUMO single-particle electron states in the 64CaO glass. Both states are spin-degenerate, and h1 labels the cavity (cage) occupied by LUMO. Yellow and magenta stand for different signs of the wave-function ...
Moon dust gathered by Neil Armstrong discovered in warehouse after 40 years

Moon dust gathered by Neil Armstrong discovered in warehouse after 40 years

While tidying up a storage space at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, an archivist makes a cosmic discovery. Edward Moyer. by Edward Moyer. May 25, 2013 3:08 PM PDT Follow @edatnews. Have you seen me? (Credit: Lawrence Berkeley ...
Celestial meeting of four planets

Celestial meeting of four planets

Celestial meeting of four planets -- Jupiter, Venus, Mercury and Saturn -- can be witnessed in the sky for two consecutive days on Tuesday and Wednesday. Planetary Society, India, founder secretary N. Sri Raghunandan Kumar said that it would be easy to ...
Melting ice forces Russian evacuation from Arctic base

Melting ice forces Russian evacuation from Arctic base

It takes the phrase "on thin ice" to a whole new level. Russia is evacuating a research station on an ice floe in the Arctic because the ice is breaking up beneath its feet. It's another indicator of the rapidity with which the Arctic sea ice is shrinking. On 24 May ...