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Billion Year Old Water Found in Canada Holds Clues About Ancient Life

Sep 28, 2012 06:45 AM EDT

After the Rock Show Curiosity Sees Old Streambed on Mars

After touching the Martian rock with its robotic arm for the first time on Sept 22, NASA's Curiosity has detected a stream that once ran vigorously across the area of Mars where the rover is driving. Prior to this there was evidence for the presence of water on Mars but the images provided by Curio...

Sep 28, 2012 06:41 AM EDT

Lithium-Ion Batteries with New Electrode for Long Life

A new material has been developed to improve the energy storage capacity of batteries so that laptops, cellphones, electric cars and other mobile devices can be used for longer duration. This new material has been developed by Steven Arnold Klankowski, a doctoral candidate in chemistry, La Crescent,...

Sep 27, 2012 06:32 AM EDT

Salt Marshes Remove Carbon Dioxide and Slow Down Climate Change

Greenhouse gas carbon dioxide acts like an atmospheric blanket trapping Earth's heat and abundance of carbon dioxide can alter the global climate. And warming climate causes the polar ice to melt thereby causing the sea levels to rise.

Sep 27, 2012 07:33 AM EDT

Ancient Buddhist Statue Carved From Meteorite

A 1000 year old statue of an ancient Buddhist that is known as the 'Iron Man' has been analyzed by a team of scientists led by Dr. Elmar Buchner from the Institute of Planetology, University of Stuttgart.

Sep 22, 2012 06:38 AM EDT

Canadian Fossilised Forest to Bounce Back to Life by 2100 Due to Climate Change

The far northern province of Canada known as Nunavut (pronounced none-of-it) is currently a largely barren land but the global warming may again bring greenery to the area.

Sep 22, 2012 06:37 AM EDT

Naked Mole Rats’ Acidic Survival Gives Clues on Developing Tolerance to Hostile Environment

A new study that is being done on the rodents describes how these rodents adapt to the acidic environment that even humans will not able to tolerate.

Sep 22, 2012 06:34 AM EDT

NASA’s NuSTAR Telescope Completes 100 Days

NASA's Nuclear spectroscopic Telescope Array or NuSTAR has completed its 100 days journey on Sept 21. NuSTAR is the first telescope designed to focus on high energy, short length X ray lights from some of the most dynamic objects in space like the black holes and supernova remnants.

Sep 20, 2012 09:05 AM EDT

High Powered Laser Used To Study World at Atomic Level

A high powered laser was used by a multi university team based at UC Santa Barbara to advance the tool used by scientists to study the world at the atomic level.

Oldest Galaxy Discovered Amidst Cosmic ‘Dark Ages’

Sep 20, 2012 09:02 AM EDT

Cosmic Magnification Throws Light on Most Distant Galaxy

The most distant galaxy has been discovered by the combined power of NASA's Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes as well as a cosmic magnification effect.

Sep 18, 2012 06:16 AM EDT

Europe’s Weather Satellite Metop-B Joins Its Predecessor in Low Monitoring Orbit

A second European weather satellite was launched Sept. 17 from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan into the polar orbit atop of a Russian Soyuz launcher.

Sep 15, 2012 05:10 AM EDT

Starry-Skied Planets Found Around Sun-Like Stars in a Cluster

For the first time astronomers have spotted starry skied planets orbiting sun-like stars. This new finding suggests that planets can appear in dense stellar environment.

Sep 15, 2012 05:10 AM EDT

Starry-Skied Planets Found Around Sun-Like Stars in a Cluster

For the first time astronomers have spotted starry skied planets orbiting sun-like stars. This new finding suggests that planets can appear in dense stellar environment.