Science & Health

Animation shows polar ice cap changes over a year

The European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites has produced an animation that summarises the status of sea ice concentration in the Arctic and Antarctic regions over the whole year.The group published the animation amid reports of how the ice levels at the polar caps are at a low. It cited a report stating the Arctic low ice level is due to global warming and unusual weather events while Antarctica’s low is due to a natural variability. In the animation above you can see how Arctic and Antarctic sea ice extent changed during the year.

Jan 31, 2017

Alpha Centauri mission: Here's how researchers plan to explore the closest star system to Earth

With current technology it would take an object millennia to reach the Alpha Centauri system, but with the development of light sail technology that time could be reduced to just decades

Jan 31, 2017

How India plans to break Russia's record by launching 104 satellites at one go; NASA had sent 29

India's ISRO is planning to send 104 satellites into the orbit at one go and break the record set by Russia.

Jan 30, 2017

Can burnt toast give you cancer?

A harmful chemical compound called acrylamide (C3H5NO), known to be cancerous, is formed when starch gets burnt.

Jan 30, 2017

Presence of methane and water discovered on exoplanet GJ 1132b, and you know what that means...cows!

Exoplanet GJ 1132b orbits an M-Class Red Dwarf star, which are common in in the Milky Way galaxy. This oven-hot exoplanet is 1.2 times the size of Earth and has a diameter 50% larger.

Jan 30, 2017

Alien planets orbiting too close to their stars could find their moons going rogue!

More than 3,400 alien worlds have been discovered by researchers outside our solar system over two decades.

Jan 30, 2017

Declassified CIA documents reveal 6 UFO sightings in India, Nepal and Bhutan

CIA had earlier declassified over 930,000 documents and made them available online.

Jan 29, 2017

Human civilisation can thrive on Mars within a century, says Japanese astronaut Naoko Yamazaki

Naoko Yamazaki, the second Japanese woman astronaut, speaks about space progress and human civilisation taking place in space.

Jan 28, 2017

UFO Sighting: Mysterious flying objects spotted along US-Mexico border [VIDEO]

A fleet of seven to eight UFOs was flying right over the border control post at Tijuana, a border city in Mexico just south of California.

Jan 28, 2017

Giant exoplanets may grow even larger with time, researchers reveal!

Hot Jupiters are exoplanets that orbit their parent star at a distance far closer than Mercury does with our Sun. Their size is comparable to the gas giants (Jupiter and Saturn) in our solar system.

Jan 28, 2017

Tamil Nadu: Fake anti-vaccination messages circulated widely on WhatsApp and Facebook, fuelling fears that polio might return

The messages seem to be based on a study that has been disproved and its author barred from practising medicine in the United Kingdom.

Jan 28, 2017

Nibiru Apocalypse Now! Earth will be destroyed this October, claims conspiracy theorist

As per the belief of conspiracy theorists, hundreds of years ago, the orbits of other planets have been destroyed by Nibiru's gravitational impact.

Jan 27, 2017

Miracle Medicine: This woman lived without her lungs for 6 days!

Melissa Benoit, a young mother aged 32, hailing from Canada underwent a unique procedure, which was never carried out before.

Jan 27, 2017

New findings reveal that the universe is expanding surprisingly faster than we thought!

The new expansion rate of the universe is found to be 71.9 kilometers (44.7 miles) per second per megaparsec (1 megaparsec = 3.26 million light-years).

Jan 27, 2017

Video diagram shows strong gravitational lensing effect

Gravitational lensing is when objects with large masses such as galaxies or clusters of galaxies warp the spacetime surrounding them in such a way that they can create multiple images of background objects.

Jan 26, 2017