Flashy first images arrive from NOAA’s GOES-16 lightning mapper
Mar 07, 2017, at 08:45 pm
Washington, Mar 7 (IBNS): Detecting and predicting lightning just got a lot easier. The first images from a new instrument onboard NOAA’s GOES-16 satellite are giving NOAA National Weather Service forecasters richer information about lightning that will help them alert the public to dangerous weather.
Probing seven worlds with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope
Mar 04, 2017, at 11:37 pm
Washington, Mar 4 (IBNS): With the discovery of seven earth-sized planets around the TRAPPIST-1 star 40 light years away, astronomers are looking to the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope to help us find out if any of these planets could possibly support life.
Mind-controlled toys and electronic noses: Warwick Engineering Day
Mar 03, 2017, at 09:41 pm
London, Mar 3 (IBNS): Members of the local community will have the chance to get their hands on the toys of the future and cutting-edge technology - at the University of Warwick’s Engineering Day this month.
Desk jobs are bad for your heart and your waist, says research
Mar 03, 2017, at 09:41 pm
London, Mar 3 (IBNS) A new study shows further evidence for the view that spending too much time sitting down is bad for our health and our waistline.
Three rockets launched within hours explore auroras over Alaska
Mar 03, 2017, at 09:21 pm
Washington, Mar 3 (IBNS): Three NASA rockets carrying instruments into active auroras over Alaska to aid scientists studying the northern lights and the interactions of the solar wind with Earth’s upper atmosphere and ionosphere were launched within a nearly two-hour period Mar 2, 2017.
NASA study improves forecasts of summer Arctic sea ice
Mar 03, 2017, at 09:14 pm
Washington, Mar 3 (IBNS): The Arctic has been losing sea ice over the past several decades as Earth warms.
Do we look like our names? new research says yes
Mar 02, 2017, at 03:08 am
Jerusalem, Mar 1 (IBNS): Study suggests that people “live up to their name†with their facial appearance
NASA study hints at possible change in water ‘Fingerprint’ of Comet
Mar 01, 2017, at 10:58 pm
Washington, Mar 1 (IBNS): A trip past the sun may have selectively altered the production of one form of water in a comet – an effect not seen by astronomers before, a new NASA study suggests.
India observes National Science Day on Feb 28, celebrates discovery of Raman effect
Feb 28, 2017, at 06:45 pm
New Delhi, Feb 28 (IBNS): On Feb 28 every year, India celebrates National Science Day through science festivals in educational and science research institutions to spread awareness about science in daily life and the country's various achievements.
SpaceX to send space tourists around Moon in 2018
Feb 28, 2017, at 02:53 pm
New York, Feb 28 (IBNS): In a major development, Space Exploration Technologies has announced its plan of sending two paying customers on a tourist trip around the moon in 2018.
Maths and maps make you nervous? It could be in your genes, says study
Feb 26, 2017, at 11:45 pm
London, Feb 26 (IBNS): Our genes play a significant role in how anxious we feel when faced with spatial and mathematical tasks, such as reading a map or solving a geometry problem, according to a new study by researchers from King’s College London.
Feb 23, 2017, at 06:20 pm
Nicosia, Cyprus, Feb 23 (Just Earth News): An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team of experts said that Cyprus has a competent and dedicated radiation safety regulatory body that works for the continuous improvement of safety, but noted that a legal framework review and other steps would further enhance safety.
NASA telescope reveals largest batch of Earth-size, habitable-zone planets around single star
Feb 23, 2017, at 05:58 pm
Washington, Feb 23 (IBNS): NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed the first known system of seven Earth-size planets around a single star. Three of these planets are firmly located in the habitable zone, the area around the parent star where a rocky planet is most likely to have liquid water.
Google hails NASA's exoplanets discovery, doodles
Feb 23, 2017, at 04:36 pm
Mountain View, Feb 23 (IBNS): Tech giant Google on Thursday dedicated a doodle to celebrate NASA's latest discovery, where the agency found out about seven Earth-like exoplanets.
NASA: Snow science in support of our nation’s water supply
Feb 17, 2017, at 06:55 pm
Washington, Feb 17 (IBNS): Researchers have completed the first flights of a NASA-led field campaign that is targeting one of the biggest gaps in scientists' understanding of Earth's water resources: snow.
SAIL supplies steel for ISRO's 104 satellites
Feb 16, 2017, at 12:57 am
New Delhi, Feb 15 (IBNS): Steel Authority of India Ltd. (SAIL) has supplied steel to ISRO for the launch of a record 104 satellites in a single rocket on Wednesday.
Feb 15, 2017, at 03:25 pm
Sriharikota, Feb 15 (IBNS); In a major move, ISRO on Wednesday launched a record 104 satellites on a single rocket from the spaceport here.
Lasers could give space research its 'Broadband' moment
Feb 15, 2017, at 03:12 pm
Washington, Feb 15 (IBNS): Thought your Internet speeds were slow? Try being a space scientist for a day.
Scientists shortlist three landing sites for Mars 2020
Feb 13, 2017, at 02:40 pm
Washington, Feb 13 (IBNS): Participants in a landing site workshop for NASA’s upcoming Mars 2020 mission have recommended three locations on the Red Planet for further evaluation.
Comet’s trip past Earth offers first in a trio of opportunities
Feb 12, 2017, at 12:35 am
Washington, Feb 11 (IBNS): Comet hunters still have a chance to see comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdušáková in the next few days using binoculars or a telescope. It’s the first of a trio of comets that will -- between now and the end of 2018 -- pass close enough to Earth for backyard observers to try to spot and for scientists to study using ground-based instruments.
Next generation batteries could provide power to microsatellites, cubesats
Feb 12, 2017, at 12:32 am
Washington,Feb 11 (IBNS): Sometimes good things come in very small packages. Just ask Dr. Luke Roberson, senior principal investigator for Flight Research within the Exploration Research and Technology Directorate at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Asteroid resembles dungeons and dragons dice
Feb 12, 2017, at 12:30 am
Washington, Feb 11 (IBNS): Radar images of asteroid 2017 BQ6 were obtained on Feb. 6 and 7 with NASA’s 70-meter (230-foot) antenna at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex in California.
NASA's OSIRIS-REx begins Earth-Trojan Asteroid search
Feb 10, 2017, at 10:12 pm
Washington, Feb 10 (IBNS): A NASA spacecraft begins its search Thursday for an enigmatic class of near-Earth objects known as Earth-Trojan asteroids. OSIRIS-REx, currently on a two-year outbound journey to the asteroid Bennu, will spend almost two weeks searching for evidence of these small bodies.
NASA, UCI reveal new details of Greenland Ice loss
Feb 10, 2017, at 09:48 pm
Washington, Feb 10 (IBNS): Less than a year after the first research flight kicked off NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland campaign last March, data from the new program are providing a dramatic increase in knowledge of how Greenland's ice sheet is melting from below.
Cancer genes still alive in body after death: Study
Feb 10, 2017, at 08:18 am
Toronto, Feb. 9 (IBNS): Researchers from the University of Washington were of the opinion that certain genes in the body, including cancer genes, remained alive even after someone is clinically declared dead, media reports said.
NASA's Curiosity Rover sharpens paradox of ancient Mars
Feb 07, 2017, at 03:12 pm
Washington, Feb 7 (IBNS): Mars scientists are wrestling with a problem. Ample evidence says ancient Mars was sometimes wet, with water flowing and pooling on the planet’s surface.
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Scientists around the world, Canada offer lab space to colleagues affected by U.S. travel ban
Feb 07, 2017, at 03:23 am
Toronto, Feb 6 (IBNS): Scientists and academics from around the world, including Canada, have agreed to offer laboratory and office space to researchers stranded by the U.S. travel ban, media reports said.
Tata Power committed to transform 56 villages in India under Model Village programme
Feb 06, 2017, at 10:26 pm
Mumbai/ Kolkata, Feb 6 (IBNS): Tata Power, India’s largest integrated power company, has always undertaken several initiatives to improve the standard of living of its communities through various interventions in the field of education, income generation, agriculture, and many more. In line with this endeavor, Tata Power has committed to transform 56 villages in India as part of its Model Village Programme.
NASA makes an epic update to website for daily Earth pics
Feb 03, 2017, at 02:30 pm
Washington, Jan 3 (IBNS): NASA has upgraded its website that provides daily views of the Earth from one million miles away. NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) camera imagery website was recently updated allowing the public to choose natural or enhanced color images of the Earth and even zoom into an area on the globe.
Pop! goes the hearing, balloon study suggests
Feb 01, 2017, at 03:12 am
London, Jan 31 (IBNS): A common birthday party favour can blow up into a problem for children—but also a bigger conversation about hearing loss, say University of Alberta researchers.