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.
Toronto: Researchers identify birthplaces of monarch butterfly to help conserve species
Jan 28, 2017, at 04:49 am
Toronto, Jan. 27 (IBNS): Researchers at the University of Guelph, near Toronto are studying in great depth birthplaces of monarch butterflies that overwinter in Mexico, to help them guide conservation efforts for the declining species, media reports said.
NOAA’s GOES-16 Satellite sends first images to Earth
Jan 24, 2017, at 02:45 pm
Washington, Jan 24 (IBNS): GOES-16, the first spacecraft in NOAA’s next-generation of geostationary satellites, has sent the first high-resolution images from its Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) instrument. Included among them are a composite color full-disk visible image of the Western Hemisphere captured on January 15, 2017. Created using several of the ABI’s 16 spectral channels, the full-disk image offers an example the satellite’s advanced technology.
Cabinet apprised of the MoU between ISRO and JAXA
Jan 18, 2017, at 11:14 pm
New Delhi, Jan 18 (IBNS): The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been apprised of theMemorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed on Nov 11, 2016 at Tokyo, Japan between the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) for cooperation in the field of outer space.
CERN experiment reports sixfold improved measurement of the magnetic moment of the antiproton
Jan 18, 2017, at 10:29 pm
Geneva, Jan 18 (IBNS): In a paper published today in the journal Nature Communications, the BASE collaboration at CERN reports the most precise measurement ever made of the magnetic moment of the antiproton, allowing a fundamental comparison between matter and antimatter.
Jan 17, 2017, at 09:50 pm
New York, Jan 17 (IBNS): In 2016, less than 5 percent of organizations used smartphones to enable access to offices and other premises.
Gartner says more than 40 percent of data science tasks will be automated by 2020
Jan 16, 2017, at 11:20 pm
New York, Jan 16 (IBNS): More than 40 percent of data science tasks will be automated by 2020, resulting in increased productivity and broader usage of data and analytics by citizen data scientists, according to Gartner, Inc.
Fourteen-year-old Gujarat boy signs Rs. five-crore deal for production of his anti-landmine drone
Jan 14, 2017, at 06:23 pm
Ahmedabad, Jan 14 (IBNS) : A 14-year-old Gujarat boy has signed an agreement worth Rs. 5 crore for a feasibility study on commercial production of a drone he has created to detect and defuse landmines in war fields, NDTV reports.
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Pioneering SESAME light source circulates first beam
Jan 13, 2017, at 04:32 am
Allan, Jordan, Jan 12 (IBNS): A beam circulated for the first time in the pioneering SESAME synchrotron at 18:12 (UTC+3) on Thursday. The next step will be to store the beam, CERN said in a statement.
Hubble captures ‘Shadow Play’ caused by possible planet
Jan 10, 2017, at 03:09 pm
Washington, Jan 10 (IBNS): Searching for planets around other stars is a tricky business. They’re so small and faint that it’s hard to spot them. But a possible planet in a nearby stellar system may be betraying its presence in a unique way: by a shadow that is sweeping across the face of a vast pancake-shaped gas-and-dust disk surrounding a young star.
Giant Antarctic iceberg set to break away, say Swansea researchers
Jan 07, 2017, at 01:16 am
New York, Jan 6 (IBNS): An iceberg expected to be one of the 10 largest ever recorded is ready to break away from Antarctica, according to Swansea University scientists.
NASA selects two missions to explore the early solar system
Jan 05, 2017, at 02:55 pm
Washington, Jan 5 (IBNS): NASA has selected two missions that have the potential to open new windows on one of the earliest eras in the history of our solar system – a time less than 10 million years after the birth of our sun. The missions, known as Lucy and Psyche, were chosen from five finalists and will proceed to mission formulation, with the goal of launching in 2021 and 2023, respectively.
Birmingham scientists launch project to tackle global 'clean cold' challenge
Jan 05, 2017, at 03:12 am
Birmingham, Jan 4 (IBNS): Scientists from the University of Birmingham on Wednesday launched a major research project to investigate how 'clean cold' could help to achieve almost all of the United Nations' (UN) global Sustainable Development Goals.
NASA selects mission to study Black Holes, cosmic x-ray mysteries
Jan 04, 2017, at 02:56 pm
Washington, Jan 4 (IBNS): NASA has selected a science mission that will allow astronomers to explore, for the first time, the hidden details of some of the most extreme and exotic astronomical objects, such as stellar and supermassive black holes, neutron stars and pulsars.
Agni - IV flight test successfully held
Jan 03, 2017, at 12:19 am
New Delhi, Jan 2 (IBNS): Agni-IV, the Long Range Surface to Surface Ballistic Missile with a range of 4,000 kms was successfully flight tested, once again proving the reliability and efficacy of the weapon system.
US astronomer and pioneer dark matter scientist Vera Rubin passes away
Dec 27, 2016, at 08:10 pm
New York, Dec 27 (IBNS): US astronomer Vera Rubin, 88, passed away on Sunday night, according to media reports.
Wind Tunnel testing underway for next, more powerful version of NASA's Space launch system
Dec 24, 2016, at 02:42 am
California, Dec 23 (IBNS): As engines are fired, software written and hardware welded to prepare for the first flight of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS), engineers are already running tests in supersonic wind tunnels to develop the next, more powerful version of the world's most advanced launch vehicle capable of carrying humans to deep space destinations.
NASA readies for major Orion milestones in 2017
Dec 22, 2016, at 02:29 pm
Washington, Dec 22 (IBNS): From the beginning of assembly work on the Orion crew module at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to testing a range of the spacecraft systems, engineers made headway in 2016 in advance of the spacecraft’s 2018 mission beyond the moon.
Small troughs growing on Mars may become 'Spiders'
Dec 21, 2016, at 03:35 pm
Washington, Dec 21 (IBNS): Erosion-carved troughs that grow and branch during multiple Martian years may be infant versions of larger features known as Martian "spiders," which are radially patterned channels found only in the south polar region of Mars.
Space Laser reveals Boom-and-Bust Cycle of Polar Ocean plants
Dec 21, 2016, at 03:23 pm
Washington, Dec 21 (IBNS): A new study using a NASA satellite instrument orbiting Earth has found that small, environmental changes in polar food webs significantly influence the boom-and-bust, or peak and decline, cycles of phytoplankton.
Governments make strong commitments to biodiversity at UN conference in Mexico
Dec 20, 2016, at 03:29 pm
New York, Dec 20 (Just Earth News):Countries attending the United Nations Biodiversity Conference in Mexico reached agreements on actions to integrate biodiversity in forestry, fisheries, agriculture, and tourism sectors and to achieve the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development.
ALPHA experiment observes light spectrum of antimatter for first time: CERN
Dec 20, 2016, at 04:26 am
Geneva, Dec 19 (IBNS): In a paper published on Monday in the journal Nature, the ALPHA collaboration reports the first ever measurement on the optical spectrum of an antimatter atom.
Revolutions in understanding the Ionosphere, Earth’s interface to space
Dec 15, 2016, at 01:53 pm
Washington , Dec 15 (IBNS): Scientists from NASA and three universities have presented new discoveries about the way heat and energy move and manifest in the ionosphere, a region of Earth’s atmosphere that reacts to changes from both space above and Earth below.