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Taimoor Tariq
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Scientists discover a new species of shark in the Galapagos Islands

In a surprising search, deep-sea dives around the historic Galapagos Islands have discovered a new species of catshark which is about 1.3 feet long. The biological name of this species is Bythaelurus giddingsi and it was discovered by scientists during a research. The scientists were able to find as many as seven catsharks. Comparisons later on […]

Otzi the Iceman’s DNA has finally been sequenced

Finally, scientists have successfully been able to sequence the DNA of iceman Otzi. The complete research was published in the journal Nature Communications. The iceman Otzi was discovered from the Tyrolean Alps. The Iceman is as old as 5,300 years and was discovered by hikers near the Italian-Austrian borders in the Alps in 1991. The […]

Invasive Alien species are a threat to the Antarctic flora and fauna

According to a first-ever continent-wide risk assessment, climatic changes and the increasing number of tourists are becoming a cause of concern for the ecosystem of the Antarctic. The research team is mainly focusing on the invasive alien species that found their way into the Antarctic ecosystem. Antarctica is considered as one of the most pristine […]

A massive solar wind was sent earthward due to magnetic disturbances

A massive solar wind was sent earthward due to magnetic disturbances According to scientists, some powerful magnetic disturbances in Sol’s corona have thrown a large burst of charge particles into space on March 4, 2012. The solar storm erupted from the sunspot AR 1429 at 11:13 PM and according to reports from NASA, it is […]

Stars of the Antila Dwarf Galaxy

The myriad faint stars that comprise the Antlia Dwarf galaxy are more than four million light-years from Earth, but this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image offers such clarity that they could be mistaken for much closer stars in our own Milky Way. This very faint and sparsely populated small galaxy was only discovered in 1997. […]

Thermonuclear phases in neutron star detected by researchers

A team of researchers has been able to detect all phases of a thermonuclear process occurring in  a neutron star that is located close to the centre galaxy of the Terzan 5 globular cluster. The observations were analysed by X-ray observation satellites. This is the first time that scientists have successfully discovered all phases of […]

Microfluidic device used to monitor Sickle Cell Disease

Researchers from MIT, MGH, Harvard and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have invented a microfluidic device that can analyse the behaviour of blood samples collected from patients suffering from sickle cell disease. More than 60 years ago, the main reason for sickle cell disease was discovered by scientists. People suffering from this disease produced crescent-shaped red […]

NSA Launches Rocket into the Aurora Borealis

NSA Launches Rocket into the Aurora Borealis Astronomers from NASA have successfully launched a NASA-Funded rocket into the aurora borealis which is commonly known as the northern lights. The 46-foot rocket, the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling in the Alfvén resonator (MICA), launched from the Poker Flat Research Range, 30 miles north of Fairbanks, Alaska. The rocked arced 200 miles […]

Ancient Permian ecosystem reconstructed by scientists from ash-covered plants

Ancient Permian ecosystem reconstructed by scientists from ash-covered plants A group of Paleoecologists have successfully constructed a Permian-era swampy frost filled with extinct plant species with the help of fossils that were entombed in a layer of volcanic ash in northern China under a coal mine. Though most of the species are already know, the […]

Cell phone attachment for finding E.Coli invented by UCLA Engineers

A team of scientists at UCLA have invented a cost-effective cell-phone attachment that can detect the presence of bacterium E. Coli which is found in food and water A team of researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have developed a cost-effective cell-phone based on sensing platform and fluorescent imaging […]

Superbugs residing in the stratosphere could be a new source of power

Bacteria normally found 30 kilometres above Earth have been identified as highly efficient generators of electricity Bacillus stratosphericus  is a small microbe that is found in high concentrations of the stratosphere could be a major component of the new superbio film that a team of scientists from the Newcastle University have engineered. 75 different species […]

Stellar Swirls of NGC 5907 caused by Ancient Galactic Collision

Recent astronomical simulations suggest that the enormous swirls of stars that surround NGC 5907 galaxy which is located 50 million light years away from us, in the Draco constellation, were formed when two galaxies of the same size collided about 9 billion years ago. This research was by Wang et al in the journal Astronomy […]

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