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Dueling climate cycles may increase sea level swings

Washington, Mar 15 (Just Earth News/IBNS):The tropical Pacific Ocean isn't flat like a pond. Instead, it regularly has a high side and a low side. Natural cycles such as El Niño and La Niña events cause this sea level seesaw to tip back and forth, with the ocean near Asia on one end and the ocean near the Americas on the other.

Harvard researchers design 3D material with controllable shape and size

New York, Mar 14 (IBNS) Harvard researchers have designed a new type of foldable material that is versatile, tunable and self actuated. It can change size, volume and shape; it can fold flat to withstand the weight of an elephant without breaking, and pop right back up to prepare for the next task.

Experiments show magnetic chips could dramatically increase computing’s energy efficiency

Los Angeles, Mar 14 (IBNS) In a breakthrough for energy-efficient computing, UC Berkeley engineers have shown for the first time that magnetic chips can actually operate at the lowest fundamental energy dissipation theoretically possible under the laws of thermodynamics.

4.3 earthquake hits Assam, no casualty

GuwahatiI, Mar 13 (IBNS) An earthquake measuring 4.3 on the Richter Scale hit Assam on Sunday, officials said.

Tremor felt in North Bengal, no casualty reported

Kolkata/Siliguri, Mar 12 (IBNS): A 3.8 magnitude earthquake hit the northern part of West Bengal on Saturday.

Satellites and Shipwrecks: Landsat satellite spots foundered ships in coastal waters

Washington, Mar 12 (IBNS) An estimated 3 million shipwrecks are scattered across the planet’s oceans. Most maritime mishaps take place close to shore where hazards to navigation — such as rocks, reefs, other submerged objects and vessel congestion — are abundant. While there is a romantic association of shipwrecks and buried treasure, it is desirable to know where they are located for many other practical reasons. The ships may be of historical significance or, if the hard substrate of the ship has created a reef, of ecological significance.

NASA selects scientists for Mars Rover research projects

Washington, Mar 12 (IBNS) NASA has selected 28 researchers as participating scientists for the Curiosity Mars rover mission, including six newcomers to the rover's science team.

Record annual increase of carbon dioxide observed at Mauna Loa for 2015

Washington, Mar 12 (IBNS) The annual growth rate of atmospheric carbon dioxide measured at NOAA’s Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii jumped by 3.05 parts per million during 2015, the largest year-to-year increase in 56 years of research, as per US scientists.

What’s eating at Pluto?

Washington DC, Mar 12 (IBNS) Far in the western hemisphere, scientists on NASA’s New Horizons mission have discovered what looks like a giant “bite mark” on Pluto’s surface. They suspect it may be caused by a process known as sublimation—the transition of a substance from a solid to a gas. The methane ice-rich surface on Pluto may be sublimating away into the atmosphere, exposing a layer of water-ice underneath.

Astronaut Scott Kelly to retire from NASA in April

Washington, Mar 12 (IBNS) NASA astronaut and one-year crew member Scott Kelly will retire from the agency, effective April 1.

'World has much to learn from Japan,' UN chief says on anniversary of earthquake, tsunami

New York, Mar 12 (Just Earth News/IBNS):The world has much to learn from Japan if it is to make progress on saving lives and livelihoods, and reducing disaster losses, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon underlined on the fifth anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami.

Arts@CERN launches COLLIDE International Award

Geneva, Mar 11 (IBNS): Arts@CERN on Friday launched an international call for artists for the COLLIDE International Award-a new collaboration between CERN and FACT1.

Nuclear reactor in Gujarat shut down after leakage

New Delhi, Mar 11 (IBNS) A unit of the Kakrapar Atomic Power Station (KAPS) in Gujarat has been shut down on Friday owing to hard water leakage and an emergency has been declared inside the plant though no nuclear radiation as been recorded, according to media reports.

NASA Television to Air Launch of Next Record-Breaking U.S. Astronaut

Washington, Mar 11 (IBNS) On a second American record-breaking mission for 2016, NASA astronaut Jeff Williams is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station at 5:26 p.m. EDT Friday, Mar 18, with cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Oleg Skripochka of the Russian space agency Roscosmos from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. NASA Television launch coverage will begin at 4:30 p.m.

NASA Selects Instruments to Study Air Pollution, Tropical Cyclones

Washington, Mar 11 (Just Earth News/IBNS) NASA has selected two proposals for new Earth science investigations that will put new instruments in low-Earth orbit to track harmful particulate air pollutants and study the development of tropical cyclones.