Beijing - China's troubled Jade Rabbit lunar rover has continued to exist in a bitterly cold 14-day lunar night, officials said on Thursday. It boosts hopes that it can be repaired after facing a malfunction that happened last month. China in the beginning reported that the nation’s first lunar rover, Yutu, or the Jade Rabbit, couldn't be refurbished after it experienced a "mechanical … [Read more...]
Ganymede: Revealing Our Solar System Secrets
A team of scientists led by Wes Patterson of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), Laurel, Md., and Geoffrey Collins of Wheaton College, Norton, Mass., has created the first global geologic map of Ganymede, a Galilean moon of Jupiter. This special map joins Earth's moon, and other Jovian moons Io and Callisto, in the group of planetary bodies for which such maps have been … [Read more...]
UCSB Researchers Tracks Climate Change and Species Migration
The swift alteration of natural lands to concrete-dominated urban centers is leading to great losses in natural biodiversity. A new study revealed surprisingly large numbers of plant and animal species persist and even blooms in urban environments to the tune of hundreds of bird species and thousands of plant species in a single city. The research involves 147 cities worldwide. UCSB’s … [Read more...]
Ancient Baby DNA Recommends Tie To Native Americans
The DNA of a baby boy who was buried in Montana (USA) 12,600 years ago has been convalesced from ruins, paving new horizons for exploration of the ancestries of present American Indians and further natives of the Americas. It’s the most primogenital genome was ever retrieved from the New World. Relics found with the remains of the body show the boy belonged to Clovis culture, which dwelled in … [Read more...]
Is Nuclear Fusion necessary for Power Generation?
There is a major leap in the science of nuclear fusion. The National Ignition Facility (NIF) at the U.S. Department of Energy Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California fused a small amount of deuterium and tritium (two isotopes of hydrogen in a hohlraum target super-cooled to minus 426°F) with lasers fed with 500 mega joules (mJ) of electricity over a hundred millionth of a second, … [Read more...]
Study links evolution of face to ancient fish
The Swedish and French researchers have found some revealing facts about how the face evolved. Believe it or not, but they say today’s face evolved from ancient fishes. In simple word, scientists say the evolution of the jaw led to development of the face. The researchers carried study on one of the earliest jawed fish Romundina and carried analytical analysis of its jovial parts. Romundina … [Read more...]
NASA, CNES join hands for 2016 InSight Mars mission
NASA and CNES, the space agencies of the United States and France, are teaming up for a new Mars mission in 2016 that would study the evolution of the Red Planet. The agreement was signed this week between NASA administrator Charles Bolden and National Centre of Space Studies of France president Jean-Yves Le Gall in Washington. The other partners who will be involved in the mission include … [Read more...]
Galileo’s Optical Illusion Got An Answer
Brain researchers have now found a clear picture of the visual illusion first discovered by Galileo Galilei back in the Sixteenth Century. Galileo, intrigued by a phenomenon in which cosmic bodies seem to change their size depending on position of the observer, correctly deduced that the apparent size differences were illusions created by the human eye. Due to this illusion Venus appeared … [Read more...]
Australian scientists discover oldest known star
Scientists have newly found a star which is assumed to be the oldest living star in the entire universe, the one formed only one or two hundred million years after the Big Bang itself. Astronomers discovered an ancient star a few thousand light-years from Earth, which is presumed to be born some 13.6 billion years ago, assumed to be over 400 million years, and bids an exclusive view into what … [Read more...]
Oldest star in the universe found!
It’s seems like the ultimate age barrier has been broken. The oldest living star formed only one or two hundred million years after the Big bang itself may have been discovered. Born some 13.6 billion years ago, the ancient star offers a unique view into what the universe looked like soon after its birth and bests the previous record handily, by 400 million years. According to the lead author … [Read more...]
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