Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
Scientists at home are rooting for India-born American astrophysicist Dr Arjun Dey, who is being feted by the international media after making public his theory on the expansion of the universe. Physicists at the M P Birla Planetarium here have described the work of Dey, a post doctoral fellow at …
Evidence of ring of dust in a backward orbit around Jupiter was detected by the Galileo spacecraft, scientists said. The finding, based on dust picked up by Galileo and computer simulations, was reported in Friday's issue of Science magazine, according to Nasa's jet propulsion laboratory, which is managing the Galileo …
A Steel Authority of India oficial has claimed that the well-known mass-to-energy conversion equation propounded by Albert Einstein is "inaccurate, and violates basic physics." Mr Shankar Hazra, a manager with SAIL at Bokaro, declares there is "no question of any mass to energy conversion process. Alpha particles and neutrons are …
Jupiter's weather is more exciting than Earth's - with wind speeds up to 540kph, storms that last for decades and at least three sorts of rain-but its atmosphere is thought to work in basically the same way as Earth's . Results presented by Fred Taylor of Oxford University support the …
You've seen the pictures of the red and rocky surface of the planet Mars. Now get ready for the soundtrack. Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have designed a microphone that will ride along on NASA's mars polar landing mission in 1999.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO ) is extending financial support to universities in India for conducting research and developing activities related to space sciences.
After giving a detailed survey of our Universe, the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), has now provided astronomers with proofs of a newborn planet in the dust cloud surrounding a nearby star. The disk, encircling Beta Pictoris (a star 60 light years away from us), is warped, suggesting planet birth. The …
Quantum Evaporation occurs when a beam of phonons (little pulses of sound from a warm filament) inside a pool of superfluid helium-4 is aimed at the liquid surface from below. As in the photoelectric effect
When the International Space Station goes into orbit, it will have an atomic clock on board. However, it won't help the astronauts tell the time. The US National Institute of Standards and Technology is developing a laser-cooled, caesium atomic clock that will use microgravity conditions to achieve accuracy "at least …
that necessity is invention's mother is a well-known theory in science. Now, two American physicists have taken this theory a little further, applying it to the Universe itself. They say that the Universe might have been its own "mother'. According to them, this possible explanation may give us a more …
determining the atomic structure of solid materials is important for material scientists, since properties of every compound depends on it. Apart from the internal structure, the arrangement of the atoms in the surface layers is also crucial because this determines properties like friction and chemical reactivity. Though several conventional methods …
materials which change their properties under different conditions are every designer's dream. From simple quartz crystals to heat-sensing devices, a list of their potential uses can run into hundreds of pages. In the past, a lot of effort went into designing materials that can become transparent or reflective as desired. …
thousands of tiny transparent balls could soon make it easy to manufacture television screens the size of an average living-room wall. The technique has been developed and perfected by the French Atomic Energy Commission in Grenoble, France. The conventional cathode-ray tubes are far too bulky to be used in widescreen …
An international team of NASA and university researchers has found the first direct evidence of a phenomenon predicted 80 years ago using Einstein's theory of general relativity - that the Earth is dragging space and time around itself as it rotates.
The enormous asteroid(1997 XF11) heading for Earth proved to be a cosmic false alarm, but that's no reason not to start planning for the next one : a report.
A week after the world was shaken by predictions of a close encounter with an asteroid in 2028, some astronomers have resolved to make certain they are right the next time they announce that the sky might be falling. At a meeting this week in Houston, 15 astronomers from around …
Centre : The efforts of the E K Nayanar Government to re-open the controversial ISRO case have received a setback with the Union Government informing the Supreme Court that the Kerala Government had not provided any fresh material which justifies the four-year-old espionage case to be re-investigated. The Centre was …
A year ago, Hale-Bopp, the comet, fascinated amateur stargazers and professional astronomers alike. It may since have vanished from our field of vision, but it was the subject of a conference held on Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands, in February and attended by about 100 scientists. One point on …
Giant volcanoes taller than the tallest mountain on earth and canyons more deeper have been scanned by the Mars Global Surveyor mission orbiting the planet, scientists reported on Thursday. In the first publication of their findings in the journal Science, they described the red planet's weird and unexpected formations and …
