New instrument to help discover Earth-like planets

	New instrument to help discover Earth-like planets The team is developing new technology that would dramatically improve the odds of discovering Earth-like planets with conditions suitable for life – such as having liquid water on the surface. Washington, June 7: Astronomers are developing a new instrument ...
	Change the climate for India's poor If the great Scott Fitzgerald were to have walked into the grand plenary hall of the Durban climate conference in 2011 to announce once again, “show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy,” all fingers would have pointed to the tiny Indian contingent in the ...
	The Big bang theory is on the mark, shows earths most powerful telescope The moments just after the Big Bang happened more like the theory predicts, an international team of scientists using the most powerful telescope on Earth has discovered. The research has solved cosmological problems that have haunted particle physicists ...
	Young star suggests Sun's "feisty" infancy WASHINGTON, June 5 (Xinhua) -- The Sun might be an active and " feisty" star in the early days of its evolution, U.S. researchers reported Wednesday. The researchers reached this conclusion by studying a young star in the galaxy that is similar to the Sun.
	Tiny Chinese Archicebus fossil is oldest primate yet found A mouse-sized fossil from China has provided remarkable new insights into the origin of primates. At 55 million years old, it represents the earliest known member of this broad group of animals that includes humans. Scientists have called the diminutive ...
	Stars Don't Obliterate Their Planets (Very Often) On the Road Toward a Star, Planets Halt Their Migration Researchers using data from NASA's Kepler space telescope have shown that migrating planets stop their inward journey before reaching their stars, as illustrated in this artist's concept. Jupiter-like ...
	How similar are the gestures of apes and human infants? More than you might ... Psychologists who analyzed video of a female chimpanzee, a female bonobo and a female human infant in a study to compare different types of gestures at comparable stages of communicative development found remarkable similarities among the three ...
	ALMA discovers comet factory, solves planet formation mystery Washington, June 7 (ANI): New observations from ALMA have provided answer to one of the biggest questions: how do tiny grains of dust in the disc around a young star grow bigger and bigger - to eventually become rubble, and even boulders well beyond a ...
	Invisibility 'time cloak' developed An "invisibility" time cloak which is able to hide events in a continuous stream of light has been developed by scientists. The cloak works by manipulating the speed of light in optical fibres and means any interaction which takes place during this "hole in time" ...