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US unlikely to meet Paris Agreement emissions targets, study finds

Sep 28, 2016

New research has found that the US is on course to miss the emissions reductions targets agreed to just nine months prior in the Paris climate accord. The US is projected to fall short of its 2025 target for em...

Interaction with the aliens soon possible: NASA

NASA chief scientist says encounter with Alien life possible in next 10 to 20 years

Cody Gash

Apr 8, 2015

Innovation

Our universe is huge and time and again, the possibilities of existence of life beyond Earth have proven to be true. In their recent announcement, the NASA scientists said that the space agency is close in its ...

NOAA study finds seafloor volcanic eruptions can alter long-term climate of earth

Cody Gash

Feb 8, 2015

Innovation

A new research study found that seafloor volcanoes play an integral role in climate variations. The study, led by Maya Tolstoy of Columbia University's Earth Institute, is published in Geophysical Research Lett...

Google Earth Pro price drops down from $399 to free

Abby Smith

Feb 2, 2015

Innovation

In a major announcement, Google has made the infamous Google Earth Pro version for free of cost. Earlier what was $399 is now going to be free of cost. Google Earth Pro was mostly used by the private businesses...

Asteroid 2004 BL 86 which just brushed past us has a moon of its own

Amanda

Jan 27, 2015

World

The mountain sized asteroid 2004 BL 86 which just flew past our planet had its own moon too. The asteroid has evoked great interest among researchers as well as amateur sky watchers since it was the biggest ast...

Weather experts dispute claims that 2014 is hottest year on record

Charles Omedo

Jan 19, 2015

Innovation

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are known authorities in weather analysis, and they have stated that 2014 was the ho...

Wanton use of phosphorus and nitrogen fertilizers could destroy Earth

Charles Omedo

Jan 17, 2015

Innovation

The director of the Center for Limnology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Professor Stephen Carpenter has decried the wanted use of artificial fertilizers like phosphorus and nitrogen as going beyond th...

IPCC Climate experts say 2015 will be hotter than 2014

Amanda

Dec 26, 2014

Innovation

As the hottest year on record 2014 draws to a close, climate experts at Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have issued a fresh warning about the possible impacts of global warming and how those co...

NASA releases the video of Orion Spacecraft’s re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere

Cody Gash

Dec 20, 2014

Innovation

NASA’s Orion spacecraft took its first flight on December 5, and recently it safely landed back into the Pacific Ocean. The space research organization released a video of Orion’s re-entry into the Earth’s atmo...

Scientists find the moon generates magnetic field stronger than the Earth

Charles Omedo

Dec 7, 2014

Innovation

Believing they have solved a 40-year old mystery on why the rocks brought back by NASA’s Apollo astronauts were magnetized, scientists now believe that this phenomenon could have been caused by the dynamo or he...

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