Urban areas are currently responsible for ~70% of the global energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, and rapid ongoing global urbanization is increasing the number and size of cities. Thus, understanding city-scale CO2 emissions and how they vary between cities with different urban densities is a critical task. While the relationship …
Alok Jha and David Adam In 2003, George W. Bush announced plans for NASA to return to the moon by 2020 and once again, though, the U.S. faces some serious competition. The same year , Yang Lee Wei became China
evolution Link...or is it? A well-preserved fossil of primitive lemur Darwinius masilla, nicknamed Ida is believed to represent the point from which the group of monkeys, apes and humans (anthropoids) evolved. The fossil lacks the traits which characterize a modern lemur, a non-human primate. Instead it has a bone in …
Researchers Want To Analyse Dust Cloud For Traces Of Vapour In the hunt for water beyond terra firma, Nasa scientists are preparing to launch a space mission carrying a missile that will fire a hole deep in the surface of the Moon. The aim of the mission to be launched …
The space shuttle Atlantis, which was launched on May 11 with a crew of seven, returned safely to the earth after one of its most exacting missions, lasting 13 days. In this period the astronauts performed five spacewalks
Mars may have once been both cold and wet, researchers said Wednesday, suggesting a freezing Martian landscape could still have produced water needed to sustain life. There has been debate over the issue because with some researchers believing water likely formed many features of the planet's landscape and others pointing …
P B JAYAKUMAR / Mumbai May 1, 2009, 1:30 IST With the global swine flu virus spread seemingly not under control, the Indian distributor of a recently started unique air purification system has approached the government with an invention claimed to stop the infection
CLIMATE change is 'largely irreversible' for the next 1,000 years even if carbon dioxide emissions could be abruptly halted, according to a new study led by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The study's authors said there was 'no going back' after the report showed this, AFP news …
AHMEDABAD: Global climatic changes are affecting local weather and climatic conditions, observed Sanjay Limaye, planetary scientist from University of Wisconsin, US, during a popular science lecture organised at Gujarat Science City on Tuesday. On combating extreme conditions of ongoing climatic changes, Limaye said, "We need carbon dioxide measurement systems to …
Satellite imagery from US space agency NASA on Sunday showed at least 420 forests across the country blazing under wildfire. Similar picture on Saturday had shown wildfire in 400 places. Nepal
Set To Be Launched In 2017, A Craft With 15Inch Heat Shield Will Come Within 20M Miles Of Solar Surface London: For over 400 years, astronomers have studied the Sun from afar. Now, a team at European Space Agency, with backing from Nasa, is planning to send two space missions …
Thiruvananthapuram: Satellite data from the US National Atmospheric and Space Administration (NASA) and a new modelling approach could improve weather forecasting and save more lives when future cyclones develop. About 15 percent of the world's tropical cyclones occur in the northern Indian Ocean, but because of high population densities along …
NASA HAS used satellite data and a new modelling approach that could improve weather forecasting and save more lives when future cyclones develop. About 15 per cent of the world
The findings are based on a detailed computer model that includes atmospheric chemical effects, wind changes and solar radiation changes GLOBAL WARMING will set back the recovery of the ozone layer of the earth's atmosphere, warns a Nasa study. Previous studies have shown that while the build up of greenhouse …
Stereo journey the mission During their journey, the space- craft will use a wide-field-of-view telescope to look for asteroids orbit- ing the region. Two identical Nasa spacecraft are preparing to enter a point in the universe that may eventually answer the question of how our moon originated. The spacecraft duet, …
A brilliant burst of gamma ray killed most of the creatures on Earth some 440 million years ago, and researchers say, a similar celestial catastrophe could happen again. Most gamma-ray bursts are thought to be streams of high energy radiation produced when the core of a very massive star collapses. …
