New York, Aug 20 (IANS): Sixty million years of climate change triggered the meteoric rise of reptiles around 250 million years ago, not a mass extinction of mammals as previously thought, a new Harv… [+2799 chars]
The winners of the BMC Ecology and Evolutionphotography competition have just been announced. This year's contest has served up a spectacular collection of images that capture nature in action, as we… [+4021 chars]
You must be knowing about planets in our solar system, one of them being the planet on which we live- Earth. But do you know that NASA has confirmed more than 5,000 planets beyond our solar system, s… [+2364 chars]
Gravitational waves from inspiraling neutron stars allow us to infer the as-of-yet unknown equation of the state of cold hadronic matter at supranuclear densities. During the inspiral, the dominant m… [+2265 chars]
Observation of fluctuation structure during pellet ablation In this experiment, a pellet was injected into the Heliotron J plasma with the line averaged electron density of 0.6×1019/m3. The target p… [+16890 chars]
The early moments of the universe were turbulent and filled with hot and dense matter. Fluctuations in the early universe could have been great enough that stellar-mass pockets of matter collapsed … [+2995 chars]
Washington: The US space agency has identified 13 candidate landing regions near the lunar south pole, as it prepares to send humans back to the Moon under the Artemis programme in 2024. Each region… [+2717 chars]
Magnetic forward modeling The total magnetic anomaly effect (T) at a stationary point (xj) along profile due to a 2D dipping dike of infinite strike length, semi-infinite depth extension, and unifor… [+37235 chars]
The metabolic theory posits that physical constraints on energy uptake and allocation drive biological processes. This theory predicts broad ecological patterns such as the observed allometric scalin… [+2649 chars]
Planets like Proxima Centauri b experience tides hundreds of times stronger than ones that move Earths oceans twice a day. The force of those tides also tugs on the planets atmosphere, but a recent … [+6277 chars]
A new study, published in the August issue of the journal Astrobiology, has projected that Jupiters icy moon Europa has pure snow that rises underwater to generate the moons icy crust, rather than fa… [+1080 chars]
Good news for the hardy little Mars helicopter Ingenuity, which has braved the Martian winter thus far and will soon be getting back into the air. The helicopter has been taking a break from flight s… [+2248 chars]
