[ad_1] This spectacular “blue marble” image of Earth is the most detailed true-color image of the entire Earth to date. (Photo courtesy: Stockli / NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Challenge) New York, April 23 (IANS) Earth’s tectonic plates began to move more than 3.2 billion years ago, just over 1.3 …
Read More »Explained: 47 years of a sentence that confirmed the basic structure of the Indian constitution
[ad_1] By: Desktop explained | New Delhi | Updated: April 25, 2020 9:35:08 pm Since the Indian Constitution was first adopted, debates have raged over the extent of power that Parliament should have to amend key provisions. Exactly 47 years ago, the Supreme Court delivered its landmark ruling in Kesavananda …
Read More »Why does a disease of thousands of years keep killing?
[ad_1] Representative image | Pixabay Text size: A- A + Edinburgh: Mosquitoes in hot and sensual parts of the world have been agents of great misery for thousands of years, carrying within them microscopic parasites that are responsible for around 5 lakh of deaths per year. These parasites belong to …
Read More »NASA celebrates 30 years and 1.4 million Hubble observations with ‘Cosmic Coral Reef’
[ad_1] With yet another striking portrayal of cosmic phenomena, NASA celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of the launch of its prized Hubble Space Telescope by presenting a new iconic image, a firestorm of the birth of a star in a neighboring galaxy. In the latest Hubble image shared by NASA, the …
Read More »Earth’s tectonic plates began to change approximately 3.2 billion years ago: study
[ad_1] Planet Earth (Stockli Challenge / NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) Researchers have revealed that Earth’s tectonic plates began to move more than 3.2 billion years ago, much earlier than originally thought, and just over 1.3 billion years after Earth formed. To date, some researchers theorized that it happened about …
Read More »NASA To Launch Special Watch Party To Celebrate 30 Years Since Hubble Telescope Launch
[ad_1] Thirty years ago, the NASA space giant started a mission that would lead to some of the most important discoveries about our universe when they launched the Hubble telescope into space. In April 1990, the gigantic machine launched into Earth’s orbit and has led to a better understanding of …
Read More »Arctic summers to be ice-free in 30 years
[ad_1] Increasing global temperatures due to greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, better known as global warming, pose risks to ecosystems, animals, and humans worldwide. And according to a new study, global warming in the Arctic is on track to cause some very deadly consequences in the near future. According to …
Read More »Ocean biodiversity levels have barely changed for hundreds of millions of years, scientists say
[ad_1] The levels of biodiversity in the world’s oceans have remained largely unchanged for hundreds of millions of years, according to a new study published in Science. The conclusion that marine biodiversity has been stable over time and has not multiplied over the past 200 million years challenges existing assumptions …
Read More »I’ve been waiting for Chennai Super Kings to choose me for 13 years: Dinesh Karthik
[ad_1] Having represented six IPL franchises so far, the wicketkeeper-batsman has yet to play for his hometown franchise. Dinesh Karthik. (Photo source: Twitter) Dinesh Karthik has been living in the shadow of MS Dhoni since he made an initial impression with the Indian team in 2004. Dhoni made his debut …
Read More »The origin of human language may be 25 million years old: researchers
[ad_1] London: Researchers have discovered an earlier origin of the human language pathway in the brain, suggesting that its origins lie about 25 million years ago, 20 million years earlier than previously thought. Previously, many scientists thought that a precursor to the language pathway had emerged more recently, about 5 …
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