 | New kind of variable star discoveredAstronomers have discovered a new class of variable stars by measuring minute variations in stellar brightness. ET SPECIAL: To download ET mobile app, call 1800-200-5810. WASHINGTON: Astronomers have discovered a new class of variable stars by ... |
![Marine Life Will Require Centuries to Adapt to Current Changes in the Ocean]() | Marine Life Will Require Centuries to Adapt to Current Changes in the Ocean's ...Oceans are good at balancing-out the nitrogen cycle. However, a new study has shown that the current changes in nitrogen levels will require many centuries to be fixed. The study was conducted by a team led by researchers from the McGill University who ... |
 | Fifty years ago, Valentina Tereshkova became first woman in spaceOn June 16, 1963, Tereshkova became the first woman to fly into space in a scientific feat that was a major propaganda coup for the Soviet Union. ET SPECIAL: To download ET mobile app, call 1800-200-5810. MOSCOW: On June 16, 1963, Valentina ... |
 | Warm Ocean Causing Most Antarctic Ice Shelf Mass LossThis photo shows the ice front of Venable Ice Shelf, West Antarctica, in October 2008. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UC Irvine › Full image and caption. Rates of basal melt of Antarctic ice shelves (melting of the shelves from underneath) overlaid on a 2009 ... |
 | Fab Abs? Ancient Fossil Fish Had Em!Dr John Long, Head of Sciences at Museum Victoria unveils the head (R) and muscular front fin (L) of a 400 million year old Devonian fish fossil named Gogonasus - meaning snout from Gogo, after Gogo Station where it was discovered. WILLIAM ... |
 | 380m-year-old fish fossils help understand evolution of absLONDON: The incredibly wellpreserved musculature of a 380-million-year-old fish could help explain how the modernday six-pack abs — the pride of films stars like Salman Khan and Arnold Schwarzenegger — evolved. Swedish, Australian and French ... |
![]() | 'Ice hovercraft' tracks seen on MarsLong thin grooves - called gullies - on the surface of Mars may have been made not by water but by blocks of frozen carbon dioxide - dry ice. These blocks seem to have flowed down Martian sand dunes on cushions of carbon dioxide gas. Researchers liken ... |
 | Japan a candidate to house planned super-colliderAn international physicist group plans to build an $8.75 billion (830 billion yen) particle accelerator with Japan as a leading candidate to be home to the 31-kilometer, next-generation super-collider. The Linear Collider Collaboration project team released a ... |