Category: Science Tech
Microsoft Pledges to Erase Its Carbon Footprint, Past and Future, in Climate Push
Microsoft Pledges to Erase Its Carbon Footprint, Past and Future, in Climate Push: Microsoft on Thursday set a new ambition among Fortune 500 companies in addressing climate change, pledging to remove as much carbon as it has emitted in its 45-year history. The focus on clearing carbon from the atmosphere sets Microsoft’s climate goals apart…
World’s First ‘Living Robots’ Created by Scientists, Using Stem Cells
World’s First ‘Living Robots’ Created by Scientists, Using Stem Cells: A group of scientists have succeeded in using living cells from frog embryos into other new life-forms, which they are referring to as a ‘living, programmable organisms’. The newly constructed self-healing creature are called ‘xenobots’ and can approach towards targets. They may also help in…
NASA Eyeing Moon Hosts First Public Astronaut Graduation Ceremony
NASA, Eyeing Moon, Hosts First Public Astronaut Graduation Ceremony: NASA on Friday celebrated its latest class of graduating astronauts at a public ceremony in Houston, honoring a diverse and gender-balanced group now qualified for spaceflight missions including America’s return to the Moon and eventual journey to Mars. After completing more than two years of basic…
Galactic Gamma-Ray Source Map Reveals Birthplaces of High-Energy Particles: Study
Galactic Gamma-Ray Source Map Reveals Birthplaces of High-Energy Particles: Study: In a new catalogue compiled by researchers, nine sources of extremely high-energy gamma rays have been identified. All nine sources produce gamma rays with energies over 56 trillion electron volts (TeV) — more than eight times the energy of the most powerful proton beams produced…
NASA Helped by 17-Year-Old Intern to Find Planet in Habitable Zone
NASA Helped by 17-Year-Old Intern to Find Planet in Habitable Zone: Just three days into his internship, little did 17-year-old Wolf Cukier realise that he is going to make history — in helping NASA discover its first Earth-size planet resting in its star’s habitable-zone — the way our Earth rests in its Goldilocks zone. In…
7 Billion Years: Oldest Solid Material on Earth Found Inside a Meteorite, Predates Solar System
7 Billion Years: Oldest Solid Material on Earth Found Inside a Meteorite, Predates Solar System: A meteorite that crashed into rural southeastern Australia in a fireball in 1969 contained the oldest material ever found on Earth, stardust that predated the formation of our solar system by billions of years, scientists said on Monday. The oldest…
ISRO GSAT-30 Satellite to Be Launched on Friday, Aboard Ariane 5 Rocket
ISRO GSAT-30 Satellite to Be Launched on Friday, Aboard Ariane 5 Rocket: Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will launch a communication satellite GSAT-30 onboard the Ariane-5 launch vehicle (VA 251) from French Guiana on January 17. The 3,357kg satellite is slated to blast off from the Ariane Launch Complex at Kourou, a French territory located…
Stars Need a Partner to Create Universe’s Brightest Explosions, Study Claims
Stars Need a Partner to Create Universe’s Brightest Explosions, Study Claims: A recent study by the University of Warwick observes that stars need to be in binary systems to create gamma-ray bursts. Gamma-ray bursts are the universe’s brightest explosions, caused by massive collapsing stars. Thousands of binary star systems were modelled for the study and…
