Monday, 6 May 2013

Whale shark pup rescued off Gujarat coast

Whale shark pup rescued off Gujarat coast

Whale shark pup rescued off Gujarat coast

In what is being viewed as first sign of whale sharks finding a conducive environment for reproducing along the Gujarat coast, a sub-one metre pup of the largest fish species was recently caught in fishing nets. Experts working on whale shark conservation are ...
What the race to reach Mars tomorrow says about Earth today

What the race to reach Mars tomorrow says about Earth today

Bas Lansdorp is looking for a few good Martians. The 35-year-old Dutch entrepreneur is taking applications today to be part of the four-person crew he intends to send to Mars in 2023. In press conferences and other appearances, Lansdorp says that the ...
Nasa lays out vision for manned mission to Mars – as it happened

Nasa lays out vision for manned mission to Mars – as it happened

Nasa gives a press conference to discuss the potential of a manned mission to Mars. Follow live updates here. Share · Tweet this. Email. Tom McCarthy in New York. guardian.co.uk, Monday 6 May 2013 10.43 EDT. Jump to comments (…) Print this · Share ...
India to have five rocket launches, including Mars mission, in 2013

India to have five rocket launches, including Mars mission, in 2013

CHENNAI: India's space agency is planning to have a total of five rocket launches in 2013 from its rocket launch pad at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh, around 80 km from here. This will include a mission to Mars later this year. Four of the launches are ...
City residents not happy with drain cleaning work

City residents not happy with drain cleaning work

GUWAHATI: The residents of the city are dissatisfied with the drain cleaning work undertaken by the Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) and the Public Works Department (PWD). They complained that neither government body has taken into ...
Witnessing The Birth Of Black Holes

Witnessing The Birth Of Black Holes

Stars sustain themselves by fusing elements in their core, producing even heavier atoms, releasing energy that keeps the immense force of gravity at bay. But eventually, the fusion process will no longer produce enough outward radiation pressure to sustain ...
Report: Pollution can actually cause global cooling

Report: Pollution can actually cause global cooling

Scientists at the University of Manchester says that natural emissions and manmade pollutants may have an unexpected cooling effect on the world's climate by making clouds brighter. Clouds are made of water droplets, condensed on to tiny particles ...
Babylon

Babylon's hanging garden: ancient scripts give clue to missing wonder

The whereabouts of one of the seven wonders of the ancient world – the fabled Hanging Garden of Babylon – has been one of the great mysteries from antiquity. The inability of archaeologists to find traces of it among Babylon's ancient remains led some ...
Arctic Ocean

Arctic Ocean 'acidifying rapidly'

The Arctic seas are being made rapidly more acidic by carbon-dioxide emissions, according to a new report. Scientists from the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) monitored widespread changes in ocean chemistry in the region. They say ...