Cassin’s aucklets are Pacific Coast Sea Bird and are in news after the mysterious deaths of hundreds of these birds from British Columbia to San Luis Obispo, California. Some deaths due to harsh climate are normal but not of the scale witnessed off the Pacific coast. Scientists are trying to find the cause of these […]
Comet Lovejoy to Dazzle in all glory on Jan 7th
The comet was earlier christened C/2014 Q2, also known as Comet Lovejoy after Australian astronomer Terry Lovejoy and was discovered in August last year. The comet is becoming increasingly visible to people living in the Southern Hemisphere. It will be closest to the Earth on Wednesday according to a release by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory […]
Drought led to Mayan civilization’s fall says new study
It is a mystery about how the ancient Mayan Civilization collapsed. Everything from asteroid collisions to divine intervention has been proposed. A new study which examined the minerals which have been found in the now famous underwater cave in Belize, known as the Blue Hole, were surprised to find evidence of extreme drought between 800 […]
NASA investigates inflatable spacecraft technology
Sending man to the Mars is the dream which NASA nurtures for the later part of the century. However it is not going to be an easy task though NASA is thinking as creatively as making a toy for a child. One of the biggest challenges will be to try to safely land a huge […]
Venus Surface May Have Been Covered With CO2 Ocean
Venus is often called the other half of Earth. There are many things which are strikingly similar between Earth and Venus when it comes to size, mass distance and the chemical composition. However the similarity ends here. Venus is a hellish place with a crushing atmospheric pressure. Venus has surface temperatures enough to melt lead […]
Falling Number of Monarch Butterflies Worries Conservationists
Rapidly falling population of monarch butterflies has set alarm bells ringing among conservationists who have asked the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to add the species to its endangered species list. The agency has also agreed to help in the process of study and review. It is going to conduct a one year review and […]
Kodak to launch a smartphone in 2015
Kodak has risen once again like the proverbial Phoenix from the ashes and is going to take another shot at business and will create a smartphone based on the Android technology and its very own Kodak photo technology. Kodak claims that the smartphone it will create will have what it calls “best-in-class image […]
Spectacular Time Lapse Video of Earth Made By German ISS Astronaut [Video]
Alexander Gerst, a German astronaut, spent more than six months aboard the ISS during his stint on the International Space Station. Gerst had taken more than 12,500 pictures of the Earth and prepared va time lapse video for 6 minutes. During his 6 months sojourn on the ISS, the German astronaut had taken more than […]
Astronomers Discover Dwarf Galaxy with Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera
A team comprising Russian and American scientists has just discovered a previously-unknown dwarf galaxy located about 7 million light years away from our Milky Way galaxy. Scientists based at Unique Astrophysical Observatory in Karachai-Cherkessia, Russia have spotted a tiny galaxy with the help of Hubble Space Telescope’s Sophisticated Camera for Surveys in August. This dwarf […]
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