January 28th, 2011 
Malvika Sampat 
An international team of astronomers appointed to do research on the space has found the oldest galaxy which seems to exist before 13.2 billion years ago. They discovered this galaxy with the help of Hubble Space Telescope.
They marked the existed galaxy and enlarged it to obtain a clear view. Astronomers found that the galaxy would have existed before 480 million years.…
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Tags: Astronomers, Big Bang, California Institute Of Technology, California Santa Cruz, Formation Of Stars, French Team, Galaxy, Garth Illingworth, Hubble Space Telescope, Inconvenience, Institute Of Technology, Light Years, Million Years, Mistake, Nasa, Nasa International, New Galaxies, Richard Ellis, University Of California, University Of California Santa Cruz 
Comments Off August 8th, 2009 Malvika Sampat 
An international team of astronomers has made the most high-resolution images of a dying giant star to date.
Led by Keiichi Ohnaka at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn, the astronomers, for the first time showed how the gas is moving in different areas over the surface of a distant star known as Betelgeuse. …
Posted in News Tags: Astronomers, Betelgeuse, Bubbles, Convection Cell, Distant Star, Dying Star, Gas Motion, Giant Star, High Resolution Images, Max Planck, Max Planck Institute, Metre Telescope, Million Years, Radio Astronomy, Red Supergiant, Resolving Power, Stars And Planets, Supergiant Star, Supergiant Stars, Vlt Interferometer Comments Off July 12th, 2009 Malvika Sampat 
Christopher Locke opened his Modern Fossils Shop with many more peculiar specimens.
The modern Fossils are made from actual archaic technology that was once cutting–edge. Most of these examples were discovered in the United States, although the various species are represented all over the world.
In a special process, these items are reproduced in a proprietary blend of concrete and other secret ingredients, giving them the look and feel of real stone fossils. …
Posted in Inventions Tags: Christopher Locke, Color Variations, Cutting Edge, Evolution, Fossil, Fossils, Imperfections, Lifespan, Million Years, Mold, Predators, Proprietary Blend, Secret Ingredients, Specimens, Technology, United States Comments Off February 27th, 2009 Malvika Sampat 
Projection of the what the first Antarctic ice sheet might have looked like as the global climate cooled about 33.5 million years ago. Antarctica is in gray, with the ice sheet shown in meters of ice thickness. The ice sheet is continental in scale, but somewhat smaller than today. The estimate is based on prior modeling work of DeConto and Pollard and is supported by this new data study.… Posted in Science News Tags: 5 Million, Amp, Antarctic Ice Sheet, Antarctica, Carbon Dioxide, Climate Changes, Climatic Conditions, Geologists, Glacier, Global Climate, Global Cooling, Global Temperature Change, Greenhouse, Massive Ice, Million Years, New Perspective, Pollard, Science Daily, Sciencedaily, Transition One Comments Off February 26th, 2009 Malvika Sampat 
Figure 1: Orbital Parameters: Eccentricity, Precession and Obliquity- click for larger imageFrom Watts Up With That?
The Earth is currently in an interglacial period of an ice age that started about two and a half million years ago. The Earth’s current ice age is primarily caused by Antarctica drifting over the South Pole 30 million years ago.…
Posted in Science News Tags: 10 Million, 30 Million, Antarctic Continent, Antarctica, Earth Age, Eccentricity, Figure 1, Glaciers, High Mountains, Ice Age, Image Image, Interglacial Period, Latitudes, Million Years, Mountains Of Alaska, Orbital Parameters, Precession, Sea Level, South Pole, Watts Comments Off February 22nd, 2009 Tushar Mathur 
Pleodorina starrii has an incomplete division of labor. Although the 12 small cells near the top of this colony only swim, the 20 larger cells both swim and reproduce. (Credit: Copyright 2008 Matthew Herron)From Science Daily:
ScienceDaily (Feb. 22, 2009) — Some algae have been hanging together rather than going it alone much longer than previously thought, according to new research.…
Posted in Science News Tags: 50 Million, Ancestors, Cells, Dinosaurs, Division Of Labor, Earth, Estimates, Herron, Inhabitants, Leap Years, Mammals, Million Years, Science Daily, Sciencedaily, Single Celled Organism, Transition, Tree Ferns, Triassic Period, Volvox Algae Comments Off February 5th, 2009 Tushar Mathur 
Hymeniacidon sp. Photograph: Jane Fromont, WA MuseumFrom Live Science:
The oldest fossilized evidence of animals has been unearthed in Oman and reveals that tiny sea sponges were abundant 635 million years ago, long before most of the planet’s other major animal groups evolved, according to a new analysis.
This early life hardly looked like us, but some of the so-called demosponges can be sizable today.…
Posted in Science News Tags: Animal Groups, Animals, Cell Membranes, Earth, Fork Tine, Fossil Evidence, Fossilized Evidence, Fossils, Fromont, Live Science, Million Years, Old Style, Oman, Phone Booth, Photograph, Sea Sponges, Steroids, Wa Museum Comments Off December 30th, 2008 Tushar Mathur Science is mostly an incremental process, a slow peeling of the onion to offer small glimpses of understanding. But over time, scientists remove enough layers to expose stunning truths about nature.
This year offered some intriguing revelations along these lines. Below are the top 5.
5. Stronger link between birds and dinosaurs
Paleontologists have long known that modern birds are the closest living relatives of the long-gone dinosaurs.…
Posted in Tech News Tags: Air Sacs, Ancient Dinosaurs, Big Bird, Breathing System, Carnivorous Dinosaur, Colored Squares, Common Knowledge, Feathered Friends, Fossilized Dinosaur, Fossils, Fundamental Limit, Glimpses, Hollow Bones, Jurassic Period, Memory Aids, Million Years, Science Discoveries, Short Term Memory, Tail Feathers, Time Scientists Comments Off December 28th, 2008 Tushar Mathur 
From Zeenews.com:
Washington, Dec 13: A new theory has suggested that the mass extinction event that killed the dinosaurs 250 million years ago, was caused by the Earth’s magnetic field going into complete disarray, exposing the planet to a shower of cosmic radiation.
According to a report in Discovery News, the theory has been put forward by Yukio Isozaki of the University of Tokyo.…
Posted in Science News Tags: Catastrophe, Chaos, Cosmic Radiation, Deep In The Earth, Dinosaurs, Disarray, Discovery News, Isozaki, Magnetic Field, Mass Extinction Event, Million Years, Permian Extinction, Permian Triassic, Triassic Mass Extinction, University Of Tokyo, Yukio, Zeenews Com Comments Off December 27th, 2008 Malvika Sampat 
From BBC:
Evidence that a massive meteorite shower had an impact on Earth on a global scale 470 million years ago have been found on a Highlands beach.
Researchers from the University of Aberdeen uncovered tiny remnants of meteorites, smaller than a grain of sand, within rocks in Sutherland.
The find is linked to others made in China, the US and Australia.…
Posted in Science News Tags: Asteroid Belt, Bbc, Catastrophic Event, Earthquakes, Global Scale, Globe, Grain Of Sand, Highlands Beach, Jupiter, Massive Meteorite, Meteorite Shower, Meteorites, Million Years, Rocks, Scientists, Speculation, Sutherland, Tiny Remnants, Tsunami, University Of Aberdeen Comments Off
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