A drilling crew has accidentally become the first humans known to have drilled into
gma, which is the melted form of rock that sometimes erupts to the surface as lava.
According to a report in National Geographic News, the drilling crew cracked through rock layers deep beneath awaii and touched magma in its natural environment.
The find was [...]
Scientists have discovered more than 1,000 species in Southeast Asia’s Greater Mekong region in the past decade, including a spider as big as a dinner plate, the World Wildlife Fund said Monday.
A rat thought to have become extinct 11 million years ago and a cyanide-laced, shocking pink millipede were among creatures found in what the [...]
Reports indicate that the temperature inside India’s first unmanned lunar spacecraft Chandrayaan-1 has gone over 50 degrees Celsius, prompting scientists to explore various options to cool down the unexpected surge.
According to a report by BBC News, scientists say that the problem arose because of very hot temperatures during the lunar orbit.
“Now the moon, our satellite [...]
A new method that uses lasers to produce streams of truly random numbers faster than ever before may help improve security at a time when digital traffic and cyber crime are both growing.
Strings of random numbers are used to make secret keys and other parts of encryption protocols.
But, software that generates random numbers can generally [...]
A new research by a team of scientists has suggested that climate change can open new avenues for spread of invasive plants.
The team’s findings indicate that certain plants could become invasive if they spread to places that were previously too cold for them.
“This paper is the first to suggest that the mechanisms that aid invasive [...]
Earth seems to have its first fuzzy photos of alien planets outside our solar system, images captured by two teams of astronomers.
The pictures show four likely planets that appear as specks of white, nearly indecipherable except to the most eagle-eyed experts. All are trillions of miles away - three of them orbiting the same [...]
Google has developed a 3D model of the ancient city of Rome that is available for Internet surfers on the company’s virtual globe program called Google Earth.
The project has been developed by Google, in collaboration with the Rome Reborn Project and Past Perfect Productions.
According to a report in the Times, the realisation of the ancient [...]
While sunlight can cause wrinkles, the red glow from LEDs may help smooth them out, finds a new study.
A light-emitting-diode (LED) is a semiconductor diode that emits light when an electric current is applied in the forward direction of the device, as in the simple LED circuit.
The red LEDs do this by altering the interactions [...]
A team of cosmologists from the University of the Basque Country has determined that the accelerated expansion of the Universe can be explained by dark ‘phantom’ energy.
To explain the majority of the phenomena occurring in the Universe, complicated calculations with a computer are required and which have to be based on appropriate mathematical models.
This is [...]
Thousands of tiny gold pins which lay hidden in a desk drawer for 40 years have been described as one of Britain’s most important archeological finds.
According to a report in the Telegraph, the artifacts were part of a dagger buried with a warrior chief, near Stonehenge, nearly 4,000 years ago.
The pinhead-sized studs form an intricate [...]