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Washington, Sep 18 (ANI): By-products of red wine production could now be turned into a powder for use in everything from yoghurt and chocolates to creams and face masks, thanks to a new method invented by German and Spanish researchers.

Project E! 4008 PROVINO came into [...]

Washington, September 18 (ANI): NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has successfully completed its testing and calibration phase and entered its mapping orbit of the moon’s south pole.

The spacecraft already has made significant progress [...]

Washington, September 15 (ANI): A new study has determined that global warming could actually chill down North America within a few decades.

According to a report in National Geographic News, the study, led by Tim Daley of Swansea University in the UK, looked into a sudden cooling event that gripped the North American region about 8,300 [...]

New Delhi, Sep 14 (ANI): India and Mongolia on Monday signed a crucial civil nuclear agreement for supply of Uranium following summit level talks between the visiting Mongolian President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj and Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh.

India also extended a 25 million US dollar [...]

Washington, September 14 (ANI): In a major research study, the link between declining carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the earth’s atmosphere and the formation of the Antarctic ice caps some 34 million years ago has been confirmed for the first time.

The research was carried out by a team of scientists from Cardiff, Bristol and Texas [...]

Washington, September 10 (ANI): Scientists, in a new research, have found that about 34 million years ago, Antarctica had more room for ice than previously thought.

Scientists from the University of California, Santa Barbara, US, carried out the research.

About 34 million years ago, during [...]

Washington, September 10 (ANI): A new study by scientists has predicted the effect of global warming on spring flowers by the year 2080.

Data, taken from records dating back to the late nineteenth century, has been used to demonstrate the [...]

Washington, September 9 (ANI): In a new study, scientists have determined that the technique of laser cooling could be used to create “exotic” states of matter.

According to a report in National Geographic News, in a new technique, Martin Weitz and Ulrich Vogl of the University [...]

Washington, September 9 (ANI): Conducting an animal study, researchers at the University of Missouri have gained significant insights into the brain circuit that controls binge eating.

The researchers found that deactivating the basolateral amygdala, a brain region involved in regulating emotion, specifically blocked consumption of a fatty diet in a rat.

However, they were surprised to see [...]

London, Sep 7 (ANI): Former model Katie Price, a.k.a. Jordan, reportedly got furious when she came to know about her lover Alex Reid’s involvement in a sex film, which shows him naked in a rape scene.

Before the new nude footage emerged, the 31-year-old had publicly defended her boyfriend from porn [...]

Washington, September 4 (ANI): A new study indicates that Arctic temperatures suddenly increased during the last 50 years, after 1,900 years of natural cooling, which is additional evidence that humans are influencing climate.

Incorporating geologic records, biologic records and computer simulations, the study reconstructed Arctic summer temperatures at a resolution down to decades, and thereby extends [...]

Washington, Sept 2 (ANI): Scientists, using space-based lasers on a NASA satellite have created the most comprehensive inventory of lakes that actively drain or fill under Antarctica’s ice, which has revealed a continental plumbing system that is more dynamic than previously thought.

“Even though Antarctica’s ice sheet looks static, the more we watch it, the more [...]

Washington, September 1 (ANI): A long-term study of key glaciers in western North America has shown that glacial shrinkage is rapid and accelerating, and that it is a result of climate change.

William Shilts, a geologist at the University of Illinois, spent nearly two decades studying glaciers on Bylot Island, an uninhabited island about 300 miles [...]

Washington, August 28 (ANI): In a new research, scientists have found evidence on the Martian terrain that points towards a recent ice age on the Red Planet.

The research, by Samuel C. Schon and James W. Head from the Department of Geological Sciences, [...]

Washington, August 27 (ANI): A new international research effort on the Greenland ice sheet set a record for single-season deep ice-core drilling this summer, recovering more than a mile of ice core that is expected to help scientists better assess the risks of abrupt climate change in the future.

The project, known as the North Greenland [...]

Washington, August 26 (ANI): A new research by scientists at UC (University of California) Santa Barbara indicates a possible Antarctic location for ice that seemed to be missing at a key point in climate history 34 million years ago.

“Using data from prior geological studies, we [...]

London, August 21 (ANI): A new study has suggested that gloabal warming may heat up oceans to the extent that it could cause Earth’s axis to tilt in the coming century.

According to a report in New Scientist, the warming effect was previously thought to be negligible, but researchers now say the shift will be large [...]

Dhaka, Aug. 19 (ANI): Figures suggest that around 17,000 children drown in Bangladesh every year, a figure that is proportionately more than anywhere else in the world.

Now, according to The Independent, aid workers are battling to [...]

Sydney, August 15 (ANI): A team of scientists has found new evidence which indicates that wobbles in the Earth’s tilt were responsible for the global warming episodes that helped bring the planet out of prehistoric ice ages.

According to a report by ABC News, the finding is [...]

Washington, August 14 (ANI): Scientists are studying environmental conditions 35 million years ago to solve the mystery that why autumn leaves are red in America and yellow in Europe.

The green of a tree’s leaves [...]