Saturday, 15 June 2013

New kind of variable star discovered

New kind of variable star discovered

New kind of variable star discovered

Astronomers 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 space

Fifty years ago, Valentina Tereshkova became first woman in space

On 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 Loss

Warm Ocean Causing Most Antarctic Ice Shelf Mass Loss

This 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!

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 abs

380m-year-old fish fossils help understand evolution of abs

LONDON: 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 Mars

Long 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-collider

Japan a candidate to house planned super-collider

An 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 ...