Particle discovery helps solve physics puzzle
Jul 09, 2017, at 02:30 am
London, July 8 (IBNS): Edinburgh scientists have helped identify a new type of particle in experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
Fastest stars in the Milky Way are ‘runaways’ from another galaxy
Jul 09, 2017, at 01:55 am
London, July 8 (IBNS): A group of astronomers have shown that the fastest-moving stars in our galaxy – which are travelling so fast that they can escape the Milky Way – are in fact runaways from a much smaller galaxy in orbit around our own.
Astronomers discover a new branch in the family tree of exoplanets
Jul 09, 2017, at 01:31 am
Toronto, July 8 (IBNS): A new study involving scientists from UdeM's iREx reveals super-Earths and larger mini-Neptunes in our galaxy.
CWRU researchers find a chemical solution shrinks digital data storage
Jul 09, 2017, at 01:07 am
New York, July 8 (IBNS): Chemists at Case Western Reserve University have found a way to possibly store digital data in half the space current systems require.
LHCb experiment announces observation of new particle with two heavy quarks
Jul 07, 2017, at 04:30 am
Geneva, July 6 (IBNS): At the EPS Conference on High Energy Physics in Venice, the LHCb experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider has reported the observation of Ξcc++ (Xicc++) a new particle containing two charm quarks and one up quark.
ISRO successfully launches GSAT-17 communication satellite
Jun 29, 2017, at 03:51 pm
Bengaluru, June 29 (IBNS): GSAT-17 became India’s third communication satellite to successfully reach orbit in the past two months.
Arctic subsea permafrost is thawing faster than thought, says study
Jun 28, 2017, at 12:12 am
London, June 27 (IBNS): The permafrost in the ocean bottom below the East Siberian Arctic Sea is thawing at a rate of 14 cm per year.
New map highlights sinking Louisiana coast
Jun 27, 2017, at 10:23 pm
New York, June 27 (IBNS): Researchers at Tulane University have developed a subsidence map of coastal Louisiana, putting the rate at which this region is sinking at just over one third of an inch per year.
Lithuania to become Associate Member of CERN
Jun 27, 2017, at 10:13 pm
Vilnius, June 27 (IBNS): CERN Director General, Fabiola Gianotti, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania, Linas LinkeviÄius, in the presence of the President of the Republic of Lithuania, Dalia GrybauskaitÄ—, signed the Agreement admitting Lithuania as an Associate Member of CERN.
PSLV-C38 successfully launches 31 satellites in a single flight
Jun 24, 2017, at 01:32 am
Sriharikota, June 23 (IBNS): ISRO’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-C38 successfully launched the 712 kg Cartosat-2 Series Satellite along with 30 co-passenger satellites on Friday from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota.
NASA completes study of future ‘Ice Giant’ mission concepts
Jun 22, 2017, at 01:27 am
Washington, June 21 (IBNS): A NASA-led and NASA-sponsored study of potential future missions to the mysterious “ice giant†planets Uranus and Neptune has been released—the first in a series of mission studies NASA will conduct in support of the next Planetary Science Decadal Survey.
Queen's University scientist warns of asteroid danger
Jun 21, 2017, at 11:57 pm
London, June 21 (IBNS): A leading astrophysicist from Queen’s University Belfast has warned that an asteroid strike is just a matter of time.
NASA releases Kepler Survey Catalog with hundreds of new planet candidates
Jun 20, 2017, at 02:33 pm
Washington, June 20 (IBNS): NASA’s Kepler space telescope team has released a mission catalog of planet candidates that introduces 219 new planet candidates, 10 of which are near-Earth size and orbiting in their star's habitable zone, which is the range of distance from a star where liquid water could pool on the surface of a rocky planet.
Jun 16, 2017, at 09:21 pm
SOFIA finds cool dust around energetic active black holes
Jun 14, 2017, at 03:33 pm
Washington, June 14 (IBNS): Researchers at the University of Texas San Antonio using observations from NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA, found that the dust surrounding active, ravenous black holes is much more compact than previously thought.
New system being devised to restore communications in the wake of disaster
Jun 14, 2017, at 05:03 am
Birmingham, June 13 (IBNS): A portable system which allows communications to be restored in the wake of a disaster and help direct survivors to safety is being devised by academics.
Two new teams of high-school physicists selected to run experiments at CERN
Jun 14, 2017, at 04:55 am
Geneva, June 13 (IBNS): CERN on Tuesday announced the winners of its 2017 Beamline for Schools competition. “Charging Cavaliers†from Canada and “TCO-ASA†from Italy were selected from a total of 180 teams from 43 countries around the world, adding up to about 1500 high-school students.
Cosmic magnifying-glass effect captures Universe's brightest Galaxies
Jun 08, 2017, at 12:13 am
Washington, June 7 (IBNS): Boosted by natural magnifying lenses in space, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured unique close-up views of the universe's brightest infrared galaxies, which are as much as 10,000 times more luminous than our Milky Way.
GSLV MkIII Successfully launches GSAT-19 Satellite
Jun 06, 2017, at 02:01 am
New Delhi, June 5 (IBNS): The first developmental flight (GSLV MkIII-D1) of India's heavy lift launch vehicle GSLV Mk-III was successfully conducted on Monday from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota with the launch of GSAT-19 satellite.
India's heaviest rocket blasts off with GSAT-19, PM Modi congratulates
Jun 05, 2017, at 11:55 pm
Sriharikota, June 5 (IBNS): Creating history, ISRO on Monday successfully launched its latest communication satellite GSAT-19 with its heaviest rocket - the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle-Mark III (GSLV-Mk III) from Satish Dhawan Space Centre here.
Antarctic ice rift close to calving, after growing 17km in 6 days, says study
Jun 02, 2017, at 11:53 pm
London, June 2 (IBNS): The rift in the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica has grown by 17km in the last few days and is now only 13km from the ice front, indicating that calving of an iceberg is probably very close, Swansea University researchers revealed after studying the latest satellite data.
NASA’s SDO sees partial eclipse in space
May 27, 2017, at 11:08 pm
Washington, May 27 (IBNS): On May 25, 2017, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, saw a partial solar eclipse in space when it caught the moon passing in front of the sun.
New stretcher to prevent baby deaths in ambulances
May 27, 2017, at 02:10 am
London, May 26 (IBNS): Academics and industry partners in Birmingham, UK are developing a new device that will ensure newborn babies could survive in the event of a crash in an ambulance at up to 40 miles per hour.
A whole new Jupiter: First science results from NASA’s Juno mission
May 26, 2017, at 09:49 pm
Washington, May 26 (IBNS): Early science results from NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter portray the largest planet in our solar system as a complex, gigantic, turbulent world, with Earth-sized polar cyclones, plunging storm systems that travel deep into the heart of the gas giant, and a mammoth, lumpy magnetic field that may indicate it was generated closer to the planet’s surface than previously thought.
New horizons deploys global team for rare look at next Flyby target
May 26, 2017, at 09:47 pm
Washington, May 26 (IBNS): On New Year’s Day 2019, more than 4 billion miles from home, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft will race past a small Kuiper Belt object known as 2014 MU69 – making this rocky remnant of planetary formation the farthest object ever encountered by any spacecraft.
Now deaf-blind can “watch†television without intermediaries
May 22, 2017, at 03:02 am
New York, May 21 (IBNS): The Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), Telefónica and FASOCIDE (the Spanish acronym for the Federation of Deaf-Blind Persons Associations) presented the PervasiveSUB technology, ground-breaking software which allows deaf-blind persons to receive and enjoy television content without intermediaries at the same time as the people around them.
Scientists look to skies to improve Tsunami detection
May 19, 2017, at 11:39 pm
Washington, May 19 (IBNS): A team of scientists from Sapienza University in Rome, Italy, and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has developed a new approach to assist in the ongoing development of timely tsunami detection systems, based upon measurements of how tsunamis disturb a part of Earth’s atmosphere.
NASA's CPEX tackles a weather fundamental
May 19, 2017, at 11:32 pm
Washington, May 19 (IBNS): A NASA-funded field campaign getting underway in Florida on May 25 has a real shot at improving meteorologists' ability to answer some of the most fundamental questions about weather: Where will it rain? When? How much?
NASA's IceBridge wraps up 2017 Arctic campaign With Southern Greenland flight
May 18, 2017, at 04:58 pm
Washington, May 18 (IBNS): A fjord in southern Greenland, as seen during Operation IceBridge's last flight of the 2017 Arctic campaign, on May 12, 2017.
NASA asks scientific community to think on possible Europa Lander Instruments
May 18, 2017, at 04:15 pm
Washington, May 18 (IBNS): NASA is asking scientists to consider what would be the best instruments to include on a mission to land on Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa.