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 …
We show that terrestrial planets in the habitable zones of M dwarfs older than *1 Gyr could have been in runaway greenhouses for several hundred million years following their formation due to the star’s extended premain sequence phase, provided they form with abundant surface water. Such prolonged runaway greenhouses can …
Astronomers have studied the carbon monoxide in a galaxy over 12 billion light years from Earth and discovered that it's running out of gas, quite literally, and headed for a 'red and dead' future. The galaxy, known as ALESS65, was observed by the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) in 2011 …
The end of the world is coming – but not for a while yet. That’s according to a new study indicating that we have 1.75 billion years left until Mother Earth gives up the ghost. Researchers from the University of East Anglia’s School of Environmental Sciences analysed other planets outside …
Mumbai: Scientists have detected magmatic water — water that originates from deep within the Moon’s interior — on the surface of the Moon. These findings, published in the August 25 issue of Nature Geoscience, represent the first such remote detection of this type of lunar water, and were arrived at …
London: Mars had an oxygenrich atmosphere 4,000 million years ago a new Oxford study has found. Differences between Martian meteorites and rocks examined by a NASA rover can be explained if Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere 4,000 million years ago — well before the rise of atmospheric oxygen on Earth …
Washington: Moon dust samples gathered by Neil Armstrong during the Apollo 11 lunar mission have been discovered inside a California lab warehouse after sitting in the dusty storage unnoticed for over 40 years. Vials of Moon dust brought back to Earth by Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin — were found last …
Global average temperatures will warm about 20 per cent more slowly than expected over the coming decades, scientists have predicted. The recent downturn in the rate of global warming will lead to lower temperature rises in the short-term and reduce predicted warming in the coming decades. Scientists said there has …
Mumbai: Mars has lost much of its original atmosphere, but what’s left remains quite active, recent findings from Nasa’s Mars rover Curiosity indicate. Rover team members reported diverse findings on Monday at the European Geosciences Union 2013 General Assembly, in Vienna, says a Nasa statement late on Monday night. Evidence …
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will make a fresh attempt at launching the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV), the last two flights of which have ended in failure, in July this year, ISRO chairman K Radhakrishnan said on Tuesday. The GSLV will carry a communication satellite GSAT-14 to be …
Mercury is as cold as ice. Indeed, Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, possesses a lot of ice — 100 billion to one trillion tonnes — scientists working with Nasa’s Messenger spacecraft reported on Thursday. Sean C Solomon, the principal investigator for Messenger, said there was enough ice there …
Scientists on Thursday announced new evidence that Mercury, the planet orbiting nearest the sun, hosts massive caches of ice and revealed new information on how water reached our solar system’s inner planets. “The new data indicate the water ice in Mercury’s polar regions, if spread over an area the size …
Washington: Nasa’s Curiosity rover which completed its first soil analysis on Mars has found minerals on the Red Planet similar to weathered basalt volcanic soils in Hawaii. X-ray diffraction image of first Martian soil sample showed the presence of crystalline feldspar, pyroxenes and olivine mixed with some non-crystalline material — …
delves deep into the research carried out by the Science Nobel winners to understand what they did, why they are important & what the future implications of findings are Medicine WINNERS: John Gurdon & Shinya Yamanaka INSTITUTION: Gurdon Institute, Cambridge, UK & Kyoto University, Japan PRIZE-WINNING WORK: Adult cells can …
A French and an American scientist won the Nobel prize on Tuesday for finding ways to measure quantum particles without destroying them, which could make it possible to build a new kind of computer far more powerful than any seen before. Serge Haroche from France and American David Wineland, both …
French-American Duo Hailed For Finding Way To Help Build Supercomputers. Stockholm: A French-American duo shared the 2012 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for inventing methods to observe the properties of the quantum world, research that has led to the construction of extremely precise clocks and helped scientists take the …
Theoretical physicist Ashoke Sen, a string theorist at Allahabad’s Harish-Chandra Research Institute, has become a crorepati overnight. On Tuesday, Prof Sen became one of the nine winners of the first Yuri Milner Fundamental Physics Prize — at $ 3 million (Rs 16.7 crore), the most lucrative academic prize in the …
The Large Hadron Collider can throw up many surprises in the near future, making the next few years the most critical for physics research in a century. Read on Sudhir Vempati, assistant professor of physics at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore, was among the hundreds of thousands …
New Delhi, July 4: India’s imprints on the new subatomic particle announced by scientists today date back to the early 20th century when eminent physicist Satyendra Nath Bose developed mathematics to describe the behaviour of a family of particles, now collectively called the bosons. Dozens of scientists and their students …
In the euphoria at CERN was missing an Indian name, a Calcuttan whose work way back in the early 20th century had paved the way for the conceptualisation of the Higgs boson. The sub-atomic particle believed to be imparting mass and stability to the universe is partly named after Satyendra …
50-Yr Search For Higgs Boson Ends In Triumph Geneva: After a quest spanning nearly half a century, physicists on Wednesday said they had found a sub-atomic particle that may be the elusive Higgs boson, popularly known as the ‘God particle’, which is believed to confer mass on matter. Rousing cheers …
