The world is celebrating the discovery of the sub-atomic particle at CERN, Geneva, which many believe could well be the long sought after Higgs-Boson. This particle is also called the ‘God Particle’ because its existence is fundamental to the creation of the universe. School physics teaches us that everything is made up of atoms, and [...]
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The Myristica swamps are tropical fresh water swamp forests with an abundance of Myristica trees, the most primitive of the flowering plants on earth. The evergreen, water-tolerant trees have dense stilt roots helping them stay erect in the thick, black, wet alluvial soil. The Myristica swamps, a vanishing ecosystem, are now largely confined to 53 [...]
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The Regional Integrated Multi-Hazard Early Warning System for Africa and Asia (RIMES) is an international and intergovernmental institution, owned and managed by its Member States, for the generation and application of early warning information. RIMES evolved from the efforts of countries in Africa and Asia, in the aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, to [...]
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Sawfish Declared as Critically Endangered The seven varieties of sawfish, including four from India, have been listed as critically endangered on the Red List of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). They are also considered the most threatened marine fish. The distinctive feature of the fish is its saw-like rostrum, a modified tooth-like [...]
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Carbon sequestration is the process of removing carbon from the atmosphere and depositing it in underground geologic formations / reservoirs. Carbon sequestration describes long-term storage of carbon dioxide or other forms of carbon to either mitigate or defer global warming and avoid dangerous climate change. It has been proposed as a way to slow the [...]
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HPTN 052 : The journal Science has lauded an eye-opening HIV study, known as HPTN 052, (HIV Prevention Trials Network ) as the most important scientific breakthrough of 2011. HPTN 052 is a Phase III, two-arm, multi-site, randomized trial to determine the effectiveness of two treatment strategies in preventing the sexual transmission of HIV in HIV-serodiscordant couples. The [...]
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Concerned over the climatic changes and its impact on the Himalayan ranges, theUnion Minister of Science and Technology, Vilas Rao Deshmukh has announced to establish national level Glaciology Centre at Mussoorie. While addressing a seminar on ‘Indian Monsoon and Himalayan Geodynamics’ at Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Deshmukh said that there has been a frequent fluctuation in the Indian [...]
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Concerned over the climatic changes and its impact on the Himalayan ranges, the Union Minister of Science and Technology, Vilas Rao Deshmukh has announced to establish national level Glaciology Centre at Mussoorie.While addressing a seminar on ‘Indian Monsoon and Himalayan Geodynamics’ at Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Deshmukh said that there has been a frequent [...]
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Abu Dhabi is now the first capital city in the world to be entirely covered with a fibre optic network, UAE telecom giant Etisalat has announced. The completion of this project has contributed to the UAE being ranked amongst the top five countries in the Arab world in the Network Readiness Index (NRI) and ranked [...]
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The stage has been set for the launch of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C16) from the first launch pad at Sriharikota on April 20 at 10.12 a.m. The PSLV-C16 will put in orbit three satellites — India’s Resourcesat-2, an Indo-Russian satellite called Youthsat and a micro-satellite named X-Sat from the Nangyang Technological University of [...]
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An asteroid as powerful as 15 atomic bombs has whizzed past the earth at a distance about 10 times that of the moon. Astronomers first spotted the cigar—shaped object, identified as Asteroid 2011 GP59, spinning through space a week ago and tracked its movement, the Daily Mail reported. The 50-metre-long rock that could have destroyed [...]
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A key official has promised action on setting up in Bangalore the southern regional branch of the New Delhi-located IT Appellate Tribunal dealing with cyber crimes once the state offered the infrastructure. "Bangalore being hub of IT Sector, it should also be provided with sufficient judicial phenomenon such as the Appellate Tribunal." Till the Tribunal [...]
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NASA launched a telescope to scout out elusive, super high-energy gamma rays lurking in the universe. Glast ” a NASA acronym standing for Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope ” began its five- to 10-year earth-orbiting mission aboard a Delta rocket. Glast will convert incoming gamma rays into pairs of electrons and positrons ” in other [...]
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Japanese Gen Corporation employee Yasutoshi Yokoyama takes a demonstration flight on the GEN H-4 helicopter, the world’s smallest one-man helicopter, in Vinci, the birthplace of Leonardo da Vinci, near Florence, Italy on Sunday.
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