Scientists believe they have for the first time found evidence of the existence of other universes by analyzing data gathered by the European Space Agency’s Planck spacecraft. Scientists published a new map of the cosmic microwave background — the ‘radiation’ left behind after the Big Bang that created the universe 13.8 billion years ago. The [...]
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World’s shrinking glaciers contributed to almost a third of the sea-level rise between 2003 and 2009, a new study has found. While 99% of Earth’s land ice is locked up in the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, the remaining ice in the world’s glaciers contributed just as much to sea rise as the two ice [...]
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Scientists have discovered ancient pockets of water — dating back to at least 2.7 billion years — which contain abundant chemicals that are known to support life, lurking deep underground in Canada. The similarity between the rocks that trapped it and those on Mars raises the hope that comparable life-sustaining water could lie buried beneath [...]
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UK scientists have found a way to make sophisticated 3D images without using the conventional digital cameras. The system uses simple, cheap detectors which have just a single pixel to sense light instead of the millions of pixels used in the imaging sensors of digital cameras. Four detectors give images, each of which contain shadows, [...]
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In a major medical breakthrough, scientists have for the first time converted human skin cells into embryonic stem cells that are capable of transforming into any other cell type in the human body. The cloned embryos that produced the stem cells can make new heart muscles if they are damaged from a heart attack, besides new [...]
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A deadly new respiratory virus related to SARS has apparently spread from patients to health care workers in eastern Saudi Arabia. Experts have suggested calling the new virus MERS, for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, but officials have not signed off on that yet. The new virus has caused severe respiratory disease in patients, some of [...]
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NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft has been shut down by the failure of one of the reaction wheels that keep it pointed, the space agency announced. More potentially habitable planets, even smaller and more Earth-like, have been identified but have not yet been confirmed. Kepler, launched in March 2009, orbits the sun at roughly the same [...]
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Chinese authorities have granted approval for an environmental assessment of a controversial 2 GW dam project — slated to be the country’s tallest dam — despite concerns voiced by a number of environmental groups. The Ministry of Environmental Protection said it had approved a year-long assessment of the Shuangjiangkou project on the Dadu river in [...]
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Accelerated rates of ice melting in Greenland and Antarctica have been observed since 2005-2006 and thus coincide with the abrupt change in polar shift. The changes were recorded by satellite gravity measurements by the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) mission, jointly sponsored by U.S. and Germany. GRACE provides monthly gravity field data that correlates [...]
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Scientists have finally recovered stem cells from cloned human embryos, a longstanding goal that could lead to new treatments for such illnesses as Parkinson’s disease and diabetes. Stem cells can turn into any cell of the body, so scientists are interested in using them to create tissue for treating disease. Transplanting brain tissue might treat [...]
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Each human has 100 billion km of total DNA, enough to reach sun and come back 300 times. But of the 3.3 billion nucleotides of human genome, less than two per cent code for proteins while the remaining 98 per cent is non-coding in nature and generally described as “junk DNA”. But scientists from the [...]
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Astronomers have for the first time discovered an planet using a new method that relies on Einstein’s special theory of relativity. “Einstein’s planet”, formally known as Kepler-76b, is a “hot Jupiter” that orbits its star every 1.5 days. The two most prolific techniques for finding planets are radial velocity (looking for wobbling stars) and transits [...]
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The fluidised immobilised carbon catalytic oxidation (FICCO) reactor installed in city sewage treatment plants developed by CLRI scientists. The carbon matrix in FICCO has tiny holes of 30 nanometre size to hold thebacteria. After the decomposition is complete, the suspended bacteria settle at the bottom as sludge. But, this is a zero sludge method as [...]
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Over 1,00,000 children, below the age of 11 months, die of diarrhoea annually in India which is the second leading killer of young children globally, after pneumonia. India accounts for the highest number of diarrhoeal deaths, a latest study has suggested. Expanding access to vaccines for rotavirus could save thousands of lives and help avoid [...]
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A case of the Kyasanur forest disease, a viral disease transmitted to human beings through a species of ticks usually found on monkeys, has been reported from the Noolpuzha-Aalathoor colony in Wayanad district. This is the first time that the zoonotic disease is being reported in Kerala. The disease has been found in Shimoga, the [...]
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