How to bend and stretch a diamond: Study
Apr 20, 2018, at 01:50 pm
New York, Apr 20 (IBNS): Diamond is well-known as the strongest of all natural materials, and with that strength comes another tightly linked property: brittleness.
UK and India research partnership reaches £400 million: UK Science Minister
Apr 19, 2018, at 02:27 am
London, Apr 18 (IBNS): Science Minister Sam Gyimah on Wednesday announced that as part of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the UK, the latter country will continue to grow its already strong research partnership with India with tech-focused investments that focus on issues of global importance including agriculture, clean energy, global health and the environment.
Decarbonising cooling emissions will suck up world’s planned solar energy
Apr 18, 2018, at 01:30 am
New York, Apr 17 (IBNS): Rising demand for cooling could see more than a 90% jump in energy use by 2050 that would consume all the world’s predicted solar PV capacity, it was revealed on Tuesday.
Birmingham scientists to observe brightest stars in sky, NASA to launch new observatory into space
Apr 16, 2018, at 11:34 pm
Washington, Apr 16 (IBNS): NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will be launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida on Monday.
Spikes of graphene can kill bacteria on implants: Study
Apr 16, 2018, at 09:57 pm
Canberra, Apr 16 (IBNS): A tiny layer of graphene flakes becomes a deadly weapon and kills bacteria, stopping infections during procedures such as implant surgery.
900 years long dry phase ended civilization in Indus Valley, says IIT KGP Research
Apr 16, 2018, at 09:50 pm
Kharagpur, Apr 16 (IBNS): Researchers from the Dept. of Geology & Geophysics at IIT Kharagpur have reported a new finding on the disappearance of the Indus valley civilization (IVC).
PM Modi congratulates ISRO for successful launch of navigation satellite IRNSS-1I
Apr 12, 2018, at 04:16 pm
New Delhi, Apr 12 (IBNS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi has congratulated all scientists for the successful launch of navigation satellite IRNSS-1I by PSLV on Thursday.
NASA’s Juno Mission provides infrared tour of Jupiter’s north pole
Apr 12, 2018, at 02:27 pm
Washington, Apr 12 (IBNS): Scientists working on NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter shared a 3-D infrared movie depicting densely packed cyclones and anticyclones that permeate the planet’s polar regions, and the first detailed view of a dynamo, or engine, powering the magnetic field for any planet beyond Earth. Those are among the items unveiled during the European Geosciences Union General Assembly in Vienna, Austria, on Wednesday, April 11.
PSLV-C41 successfully launches IRNSS-1I navigation satellite
Apr 12, 2018, at 01:47 pm
Sriharikota, Apr 12 (IBNS): In its forty third flight, ISRO’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-C41 successfully launched the 1425 kg IRNSS-1I Navigation Satellite on Thursday from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota.
World-first e-waste microfactory launched at UNSW
Apr 10, 2018, at 08:51 pm
Sydney, Apr 10 (IBNS): As Australia's waste crisis escalates, Professor Veena Sahajwalla has launched the world's first e-waste microfactory which has the potential to reduce the vast amount of electronic waste heading into landfill.
NASA scientist collects bits of the solar system from an Antarctic Glacier
Apr 09, 2018, at 11:01 pm
Washington, Apr 9 (IBNS): On rare calm days, the most striking thing you notice at an altitude of more than 8,000 feet on an Antarctic glacier is the silence.
Hubble uncovers the farthest star ever seen
Apr 03, 2018, at 02:05 pm
Washington, Apr 3 (IBNS): More than halfway across the universe, an enormous blue star nicknamed Icarus is the farthest individual star ever seen. Normally, it would be much too faint to view, even with the world’s largest telescopes. But through a quirk of nature that tremendously amplifies the star’s feeble glow, astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope were able to pinpoint this faraway star and set a new distance record.
UN Disarmament Commission debates ways to prevent arms race in outer space
Apr 03, 2018, at 02:00 pm
New York, Apr 3 (JEN): Despite the deteriorating security situation, there are some signs of progress in the field of disarmament, such as the intention of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the United States to hold summit talks, a senior United Nations official said Monday.
New speed record for trapped-ion ‘building blocks’ of quantum computers
Apr 02, 2018, at 09:04 pm
London, Apr 2 (IBNS): Researchers at Oxford University have set a new speed record for the ‘logic gates’ that form the building blocks of quantum computing – a technology that could transform the way we process information.
ISRO says it lost communication with recently launched GSAT-6A
Apr 01, 2018, at 07:12 pm
Sriharikota, Apr 1 (IBNS): The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Sunday said communication with GSAT-6A, the country's newest communication satellite, was lost after the second firing of the on-board engine.
GSLV successfully launches GSAT-6A Satellite
Mar 30, 2018, at 01:51 am
Sriharikota , Mar 29 (IBNS): India's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-F08) successfully launched GSAT-6A Satellite into Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO) on Thursday.
NASA prepares to launch next mission to search sky for new worlds
Mar 29, 2018, at 07:21 pm
Washington, Mar 29 (IBNS): NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is undergoing final preparations in Florida for its Apr 16 launch to find undiscovered worlds around nearby stars, providing targets where future studies will assess their capacity to harbor life.
Kepler beyond planets: Finding exploding stars
Mar 28, 2018, at 03:38 pm
Washington, Mar 28 (IBNS): Stellar explosions forge and distribute materials that make up the world in which we live, and also hold clues to how fast the universe is expanding.
ISRO–BHEL tie up for the production of space grade Lithium-Ion cells
Mar 23, 2018, at 10:26 pm
Chennai, Mar 23 (IBNS): ISRO has entered into a Technology Transfer Agreement (TTA) with Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL), which is one of the country’s leading PSUs, to transfer the technology for the manufacture of space grade Li-Ion cells.
Hubble solves cosmic 'Whodunit' with Interstellar Forensics
Mar 23, 2018, at 02:39 pm
Washington, Mar 23 (IBNS): On the outskirts of our galaxy, a cosmic tug-of-war is unfolding—and only NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope can see who’s winning.
Study suggests water may exist in Earth’s lower mantle
Mar 18, 2018, at 10:49 pm
Washington, Mar 18 (BNS): Water on Earth runs deep – very deep.
Humans flourished through super volcanic eruption 74,000 years ago, finds study
Mar 17, 2018, at 11:05 pm
Las Vegas, Mar 17 (IBNS): Our ancestors not only survived a massive volcanic eruption 74,000 years ago, they flourished during the resulting climate change that occurred, a new study by UNLV geoscientist Eugene Smith and colleagues found.
Jupiter's great red spot getting taller as it shrinks, NASA team finds
Mar 14, 2018, at 02:43 pm
Washington, Mar 14 (IBNS): Though once big enough to swallow three Earths with room to spare, Jupiter’s Great Red Spot has been shrinking for a century and a half. Nobody is sure how long the storm will continue to contract or whether it will disappear altogether.
3 NASA satellites recreate solar eruption in 3-D
Mar 11, 2018, at 12:06 am
Washington, Mar 10 (IBNS): The more solar observatories, the merrier: Scientists have developed new models to see how shocks associated with coronal mass ejections, or CMEs, propagate from the Sun — an effort made possible only by combining data from three NASA satellites to produce a much more robust mapping of a CME than any one could do alone.
NASA outlines new lunar science, human exploration missions
Mar 10, 2018, at 01:09 am
Washington, Mar 9 (IBNS): NASA is focused on an ambitious plan to advance the nation’s space program by increasing science activities near and on the Moon and ultimately returning humans to the surface.
Hubble finds huge system of dusty material enveloping young star HR 4796A
Mar 08, 2018, at 01:59 pm
Washington, Mar 8 (IBNS): Astronomers have used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to uncover a vast, complex dust structure, about 150 billion miles across, enveloping the young star HR 4796A. A bright, narrow, inner ring of dust is already known to encircle the star and may have been corralled by the gravitational pull of an unseen giant planet.
Hubble finds huge system of dusty material enveloping young star HR 4796A
Mar 07, 2018, at 02:52 pm
Washington, Mar 7 (IBNS): Astronomers have used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to uncover a vast, complex dust structure, about 150 billion miles across, enveloping the young star HR 4796A. A bright, narrow, inner ring of dust is already known to encircle the star and may have been corralled by the gravitational pull of an unseen giant planet.
Far northern permafrost may unleash carbon within decades: NASA
Mar 06, 2018, at 01:54 pm
Washington, Mar 6 (IBNS): Permafrost in the coldest northern Arctic -- formerly thought to be at least temporarily shielded from global warming by its extreme environment -- will thaw enough to become a permanent source of carbon to the atmosphere in this century, with the peak transition occurring in 40 to 60 years, according to a new NASA-led study.
NASA finds a large amount of water in an exoplanet's atmosphere
Mar 03, 2018, at 03:09 pm
Washington, Mar 3 (IBNS): Much like detectives study fingerprints to identify the culprit, scientists used NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes to find the “fingerprints” of water in the atmosphere of a hot, bloated, Saturn-mass exoplanet some 700 light-years away.
Vodafone,Nokia to create 4G network on moon
Mar 01, 2018, at 03:27 pm
New York, Mar 1 (IBNS): The Moon will get 4G coverage next year, 50 years after the first NASA astronauts walked on its surface.