Mamata Banerjee wishes Indian astronomers for identification of 'Saraswati'
Jul 18, 2017, at 12:05 am
Kolkata, July 17 (IBNS): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday wished Indian astronomers who identified a previously unknown large supercluster of galaxies called now as "Saraswati".
New limits to functional portion of human genome reported
Jul 16, 2017, at 10:41 pm
New York, July 16 (IBNS): An evolutionary biologist at the University of Houston has published new calculations that indicate no more than 25 percent of the human genome is functional.
Stanford scientists discover how dense, extraterrestrial ice can form in just billionths of a second
Jul 14, 2017, at 11:42 pm
London, July 14 (IBNS): Stanford researchers have for the first time captured the freezing of water, molecule-by-molecule, into a strange, dense form called ice VII , found naturally in otherworldly environments, such as when icy planetary bodies collide.
Mosquitoes should not be eliminated: Research
Jul 14, 2017, at 05:03 am
West Lafayette, Ind., July 13 (IBNS): A Purdue researcher and a team of scientists working on a new insecticide argue that mosquitoes should not simply be made extinct due to their role in various ecosystems.
The one trillion tonne iceberg: Larsen C Ice Shelf rift finally breaks through
Jul 13, 2017, at 01:42 am
Washington, July 12 (IBNS): A one trillion tonne iceberg – one of the biggest ever recorded - has calved away from the Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica, after a rift in the ice, monitored by the Swansea University-led MIDAS project, finally completed its path through the ice.
First battery-free cellphone makes calls by harvesting ambient power
Jul 13, 2017, at 12:36 am
Washington, July 12 (IBNS): University of Washington researchers have invented a cellphone that requires no batteries — a major leap forward in moving beyond chargers, cords and dying phones. Instead, the phone harvests the few microwatts of power it requires from either ambient radio signals or light.
Lip-syncing Obama: New tools turn audio clips into realistic video
Jul 12, 2017, at 11:19 pm
Washington, July 12 (IBNS): University of Washington researchers have developed new algorithms that solve a thorny challenge in the field of computer vision: turning audio clips into a realistic, lip-synced videoof the person speaking those words.
Hidden stars may make planets appear smaller
Jul 12, 2017, at 09:17 pm
Washington, July 12 (IBNS): In the search for planets similar to our own, an important point of comparison is the planet's density.
LHC experiments delve deeper into precision
Jul 12, 2017, at 01:42 am
Geneva and Venice, July 11 (IBNS): The world’s particle physics community is meeting this week in Venice (Italy) for the EPS International Conference on High Energy Physics. Dozens of new results from the full existing datasets of the Large Hadron Collider experiments are being presented for the first time.
Scientists make “squarest†ice crystals ever
Jul 11, 2017, at 02:02 am
Columbus, July 10 (IBNS): You won’t find ice cubes like this in your freezer.
Surface of Mars poses danger to life, tests show
Jul 09, 2017, at 02:56 am
London, July 8 (IBNS) The environment on Mars may be more harmful to Earth-based life forms than previously thought, experiments by Edinburgh scientists have shown.
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.