Study reveals key role of mRNA's 'fifth nucleotide' in determining sex in fruit flies
Dec 02, 2016, at 04:56 am
Birmingham, Dec 1 (IBNS): A team of scientists led by the University of Birmingham has shown how a common mRNA modification, N6-methyladenosine (m6A), regulates gene expression to determine the sex of fruit flies.
Space food bars will keep orion weight off and crew weight on
Nov 24, 2016, at 06:00 pm
Washington, Nov 24 (IBNS): When astronauts in the Orion spacecraft travel beyond the moon to explore deep space destinations, they’ll need a robust diet to keep them healthy and sharp.
India to become Associate Member State of CERN
Nov 22, 2016, at 02:18 am
Geneva/Mumbai, Nov 21 (IBNS): CERN Director General, Fabiola Gianotti, and Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and Secretary of the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) of the Government of India, Sekhar Basu signed an Agreement on Monday admitting India to CERN as an Associate Member.
India becomes Associate Member of CERN
Nov 22, 2016, at 12:49 am
New Delhi, Nov 21 (IBNS): India and European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) signed an agreement today making India an Associate Member State of CERN. This follows CERN Council’s adoption of the resolution to this effect on Sept 15, the government said.
ATM keypads in New York City hold microbes from human skin, says study
Nov 20, 2016, at 02:51 am
Washington, Nov 19 (IBNS): Automated teller machine keypads in New York City hold microbes from human skin, household surfaces, or traces of food, a study by researchers at New York University has found.
NASA nears finish line of annual study of changing Antarctic Ice
Nov 19, 2016, at 10:15 pm
Washington, Nov 19 (IBNS): Operation IceBridge, NASA’s airborne survey of changes in polar ice, is closing in on the end of its eighth consecutive Antarctic deployment, and will likely tie its 2012 campaign record for the most research flights carried out during a single Antarctic season.
New crew launches to space station to continue scientific research
Nov 18, 2016, at 03:07 pm
New York, Nov 18 (IBNS): Three crew members representing the United States, Russia and France are on their way to the International Space Station after launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 3:20 p.m. EST Thursday, Nov. 17 (2:20 a.m. Nov. 18, Baikonur time).
Extremely warm 2015-’16 winter cyclone weakened Arctic Sea Ice Pack
Nov 15, 2016, at 01:35 pm
Washington, Nov 15 (IBNS): A large cyclone that crossed the Arctic in December 2015 brought so much heat and humidity to this otherwise frigid and dry environment that it thinned and shrunk the sea ice cover during a time of the year when the ice should have been growing thicker and stronger, a NASA study found.
November Supermoon a spectacular sight
Nov 13, 2016, at 09:16 pm
Washington, Nov 13 (IBNS):The moon is a familiar sight in our sky, brightening dark nights and reminding us of space exploration, past and present.
World Science Day for Peace and Development focuses on Science Museums
Nov 10, 2016, at 08:00 pm
New Delhi, Nov 10 (IBNS): World Science Day for Peace and Development is being celebrated around the world, including India, on Thursday, according to media reports.
NASA small satellites set to take a fresh look at Earth
Nov 08, 2016, at 11:56 pm
New York, Nov 8 (IBNS): Beginning this month, NASA is launching a suite of six next-generation, Earth-observing small satellite missions to demonstrate innovative new approaches for studying our changing planet.
India's nuclear programme making rapid strides: Jitendra Singh
Nov 07, 2016, at 01:30 am
New Delhi, Nov 6 (IBNS): Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Jitendra Singh has said that India’s nuclear programme has made rapid strides in the last two years of the Government headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and, like in every other sphere and department, the results have now begun to show.
NASA's MMS breaks Guinness World Record
Nov 05, 2016, at 01:57 pm
Washington, Nov 5 (IBNS): NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale mission, or MMS, is breaking records. MMS now holds the Guinness World Record for highest altitude fix of a GPS signal.
Schiaparelli impact site on Mars, in color
Nov 04, 2016, at 02:29 pm
Washington, Nov 4 (IBNS): On Nov. 1, 2016, the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter observed the impact site of Europe's Schiaparelli test lander, gaining the first color view of the site since the lander's Oct. 19, 2016, arrival.
Birmingham and Indian scientists investigate air pollution causes
Nov 03, 2016, at 02:59 pm
London, Nov 3 (IBNS): Scientists at the University of Birmingham are working with partners in Delhi to better understand the causes, sources and effects of pollution in India and the UK.
NASA completes Webb Telescope Center of Curvature pre-test
Nov 03, 2016, at 02:09 pm
Washington, Nov 3 (IBNS): Taking a “before†optical measurement of the telescope’s deployed mirror is crucial before the telescope goes into several stages of rigorous mechanical testing.
Scientists reveal new space-based view of human-made carbon dioxide
Nov 02, 2016, at 03:07 pm
Washington, Nov 2 (IBNS): Scientists have produced the first global maps of human emissions of carbon dioxide ever made solely from satellite observations of the greenhouse gas.
NASA’s SDO catches a Lunar Transit
Nov 01, 2016, at 03:19 pm
Washington, Nov 1 (IBNS): On Oct. 30, 2016, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, experienced a partial solar eclipse in space when it caught the moon passing in front of the sun.
Venom from deadly Asian snake may help in developing improved painkillers
Nov 01, 2016, at 01:45 am
Melbourne, Oct 31 (IBNS): One of the world’s most beautiful and venomous snakes has a venom unlike that of any other snake, research involving University of Queensland scientists has revealed.
See how Arctic Sea ice is losing its bulwark against warming summer
Oct 29, 2016, at 02:25 pm
Washington, Oct 29 (IBNS): Arctic sea ice, the vast sheath of frozen seawater floating on the Arctic Ocean and its neighboring seas, has been hit with a double whammy over the past decades: as its extent shrunk, the oldest and thickest ice has either thinned or melted away, leaving the sea ice cap more vulnerable to the warming ocean and atmosphere.
NASA moon mission shares insights into giant impacts
Oct 28, 2016, at 11:38 pm
Washington, Oct 28 (IBNS): New results from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission are providing insights into the huge impacts that dominated the early history of Earth’s moon and other solid worlds, like Earth, Mars, and the satellites of the outer solar system.
NASA missions harvest a passel of ‘Pumpkin’ stars
Oct 28, 2016, at 11:30 pm
Washington, Oct 28 (IBNS): Astronomers using observations from NASA's Kepler and Swift missions have discovered a batch of rapidly spinning stars that produce X-rays at more than 100 times the peak levels ever seen from the sun.
NASA's Juno Mission exits safe mode, performs trim maneuver
Oct 27, 2016, at 03:04 pm
Washington, Oct 27 (IBNS): NASA’s Juno spacecraft at Jupiter has left safe mode and has successfully completed a minor burn of its thruster engines in preparation for its next close flyby of Jupiter.
Study: Planet orbiting nearest star could be habitable
Oct 26, 2016, at 03:22 pm
Washington, Oct 26 (IBNS): A rocky extrasolar planet with a mass similar to Earth’s was recently detected around Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to our sun.
Changing colors in Saturn's north
Oct 22, 2016, at 02:06 pm
Washington, Oct 22 (IBNS): These two natural color images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show the changing appearance of Saturn's north polar region between 2012 and 2016.
Uranus may have two undiscovered moons
Oct 22, 2016, at 01:51 pm
Washington, Oct 22 (IBNS): NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Uranus 30 years ago, but researchers are still making discoveries from the data it gathered then.
Kolkata to host National Robot Championship
Oct 22, 2016, at 02:05 am
Kolkata, Oct 21 (IBNS) World Robot Olympiad India (WRO India) is the biggest Robotics competition in India for students between the age group of 9 to 25 years. National Championship for Robotics is going to be held in Kolkata on Sunday at the Netaji Indoor Stadium from 11 AM to 5 PM.
Cassini sees dramatic seasonal changes on Titan
Oct 21, 2016, at 02:11 pm
Washington, Oct 21 (IBNS): (As southern winter solstice approaches in the Saturn system, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has been revealing dramatic seasonal changes in the atmospheric temperature and composition of Saturn's largest moon, Titan.
NASA, Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum host discussion on solar hazards in exploration
Oct 20, 2016, at 02:57 pm
Washington, Oct 20 (IBNS): Understanding the hazards of space weather on crewed and robotic missions is vital to informing plans for NASA’s Journey to Mars and other missions into our solar system, and beyond.
New Horizons: Possible clouds on Pluto, next target is Reddish
Oct 19, 2016, at 09:44 pm
Washington, Oct 19 (IBNS): Hubble Space Telescope data suggests that 2014 MU69, a small Kuiper Belt object (KBO) about a billion miles (1.6 billion kilometers) beyond Pluto, is as red, if not redder, than Pluto. This is the first hint at the surface properties of the far flung object that New Horizons will survey on Jan 1, 2019.