NASA's Curiosity Mars rover nears turning point

	NASA's Curiosity Mars rover nears turning point NASA Drilled Hole and ChemCam Marks at 'Cumberland': The Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity was used to check the composition of gray tailings from the hole in rock target "Cumberland" that the rover drilled ...
	Our Sun was a feisty toddler Our Sun was both active and 'feisty' in its infancy, growing in fits and starts while burping out bursts of X-rays, scientists say. Scientists have reached this conclusion by studying the young star TW Hydrae, located about 190 light-years from Earth in the ...
	Trichy celebrates World Environment Day with free vehicle emission check A free vehicle emission check campaign, marking the occasion of the World Environment Day, was organised by The Hindu in association with Canara Bank and the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) here on Wednesday. As many as 109 vehicles ...
	Discovery challenges primate evolution theory As long-lost cousins go, he wouldn't take up much room at the Christmas dining table. The size of a mouse and 55 million years old, the nearly complete, articulated skeleton of a newly-discovered tree-dwelling primate has been given a mighty name ...
	Water Bubbles In Australia Provide Clues To What Caused Earth's First Ice Age Tiny water bubbles found in quartz grains in Australia help scientists better understand what may have caused Earth's first Ice Age. Scientists have always been fascinated by discoveries that give them an insight into what might have occurred during the ...
	Researchers Decode Link Between Sounds Of Popular Names and Gender Researchers from Queen Mary, University of London, conducted a study wherein they decoded the link between the sounds of popular names and gender, concluding that the name of a person gives away clues to a person's background. People often say that ...
	Life-Producing Phosphorus From Asteroids 3.5 Billion Years Ago Could Have ... Researchers at the University of South Florida (USF) and the University of Washington suggest that life-producing phosphorus from asteroid impacts 3.5 billion years ago may have boosted early life on Earth. Scientists have always been curious to solve the ...
	Awareness rallies mark World Environment Day MYSORE: Heritage city went green as it observed the World Environment Day on Wednesday with awareness rallies, jathas, lectures, sapling planting, eco walk and mass cleaning operations by various organizations. All the programmes spread the message ...
	Boffins develop 'practically free' sulphur-powered batteries Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in the USA have demoed a battery technology that makes two radical departures from the past: the main material is the superabundant sulphur, and it's an all-solid battery without a liquid electrolyte.