NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory is doing a fine job monitoring the Sun for huge coronal mass ejections (CMEs), solar storms and other such events on our star and all the while it…
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Europe’s satnav closer to reality with Galileo satellites 9, 10 scheduled for launch
Europe’s next two satellites in the series of Galileo satellites are finally ready for launch after a string of delays and have been positioned atop the Russian Soyuz ST-B launcher for their…
Hydroelectric ‘clean’ energy may be responsible for ‘methylmercury’ threat
With increasing global warming nations are turning to renewable and clean sources of energy including hydroelectric power, but it seems that though this ‘clean’ energy enables us to tackle the carbon menace…
Jaguar Land Rover launches learning Academy for its staffers
A new and innovative initiative has been launched by Jaguar Land Rover for the first time in the UK auto industry, wherein its workers will be able to take part in continuous…
Jaguar Land Rover to offer diesel variants for its entire lineup
Product planning manager for Jaguar Land Rover North America has revealed that the company is planning to expand its diesel line-up and it fact it is going to bring out diesel variants…
COTSbot to hunt down menacing crown-of-thorns starfish in Great Barrier Reef
Here’s how to tackle the menace of crown-of-thorns starfish – a robot, state of the art animal recognition engine, and 200 lethal shots of bile salts! Queensland University of Technology researchers have developed…
Polar bears will survive ice melts by feeding on caribou, snow geese, and eggs
Sea ice melts in the polar caps have raised concerns over the ability of polar bears to survive due to decreased availability of seals, but a new study has suggested that these…
Robotic exoskeleton helps paralysed man walk
In a major breakthrough, 39-year-old Irish athlete Mark Pollock, who lost sight 16 years ago and had been paralyzed from the waist down for last four years, has regained enough voluntary control…
Animals, not meteors, were responsible for first mass extinction
A commonly held notion that mass extinction on Earth are a result of regular impacts of meteors from Space has been challenged by a new research that claims that animals are responsible…
Mild electric shock could help fend off seasickness: Study
Milk electric shocks delivered to the scalp could be the new treatment that millions of people suffering from motion sickness and seasickness and waiting for globally. With an estimated thirty per cent…
Possible reason behind limited number of lions, other top predators explained
A generally held notion of more the prey greater the number of predators has been debunked by a new study that shows why the relation doesn’t hold true because of simple mathematics…
Intel commits $50 million for quantum computing research
Intel has committed $50 million as research funding to QuTech, the quantum institute of TU Delft and TNO, wherein the two will be carrying out intensive and extensive research on quantum computing….