Taimoor Tariq
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Articles By Taimoor Tariq
At 7:00 AM (10:00 GMT), the new Vega rocket, designed by the European Space Agency launched successfully from Kourou, the French Guyana, off the northern coast of South America. Though Vega is not a gigantic rocket, it is considered to be more effective than other rockets. The rocket is carrying 9 satellites which includes LARES […]
Feb 18 2012 | Posted in
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Through the Hubble Space Telescope, researchers have been able to discover a black hole that is surrounded by a cluster of young blue stars. Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers found a cluster of young stars that are encircling the first intermediate-mass black hole that was once at the core of a now-disintegrated dwarf galaxy. […]
Feb 17 2012 | Posted in
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Researchers in the jungles of Madagascar discovered four new species of leaf chameleons who are now the world’s tiniest reptiles. The adults of this species are just over an inch from their snouts to their tails. These species belong to the genus Brookesia which already has many small species that look a lot like the […]
Feb 16 2012 | Posted in
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In an amazing research carried out by a geologists from Yale University in New Haven Connecticut, world’s two biggest continents, Asia and America will collide and form a single landmass around the North Pole. However, there’s no reason to worry about it as this event is still 50 or even 200 million years away. Just […]
Feb 15 2012 | Posted in
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Philippine Tarsier emits high-frequency calls like bats A team of scientists has recently discovered that the Philippine tarsier (Tarsius syrichta) just like bats, can communicate through pure ultrasound. It issues calls that are so high-pitched, that human ears can’t perceive. Marissa Ramiser, an evolutionary biologist at the Humboldt State University California, noted that the tarsiers […]
Feb 9 2012 | Posted in
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According to a recent research, the Little Ice Age, more commonly known as LIA, which was a peculiar period of cooling that occurred after the Medieval Warm Period and extended from the 16th to the 19th century, might have initiated through a series of volcanic eruptions sustained by sea ice. The LIA lasted from 1550 […]
Feb 1 2012 | Posted in
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Astronauts have said that our planet earth barely survived a collision with an asteroid which they claim was the size of a bus. However, experts say that they are not concerned about the impact that the collision would have had. This finding is certainly not a shocker as such types of asteroids are rarely seen […]
Jan 31 2012 | Posted in
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An ancient domesticated do skull was found in a Razboinichya cave in the Altai Mountains of Siberia. Using an accelerator mass spectrometry and radiocarbon dating, University of Arizona physicist Greg Hodgins was able to determine the skull to be 33,000 years old. This predates the Last Glacial Maximum, which occurred between about 26,000 and 19,000 […]
Jan 30 2012 | Posted in
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Assistant professor of chemistry at the University of California, Neal Devaraj and a graduate student from Harvard University, Itay Budin, are currently working on creation of a ‘synthetic cell’. The duo’s goal is to create a living organism from non-living molecules. The duo has already created cell membranes that self-assemble from oil emulsion and detergent […]
Jan 26 2012 | Posted in
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A 190-million-year-old dinosaur nesting site has been unearth during an excavation at a site in South Africa. The nesting site is of the prosauropod dinosaur Massospondylus and has revealed major clues about the evolution of the reproductive behaviours in early dinosaurs. This latest nesting ground predates all previously unearthed nesting sites by almost 100 million […]
Jan 25 2012 | Posted in
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A team of scientists from the British Geological survey have by chance rediscovered fossils from Charles Darwin’s collection which had been ‘lost’ for over 165 years. Some of these collections were actually collected by Darwin himself and were simply in a drawer marked as “unregistered fossil plants”. Dr. Howard Falcon-Lang, a palaeontologist at the Royal […]
Jan 23 2012 | Posted in
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The NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has successfully peeped into the rare blue stars in the Andromeda Core. The rare discovery was made when scientists were looking deep into the neighbouring Andromeda Galaxy. According to Astronomers, who used Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3, there are roughly 8,000 blue stars within 2,600 light-years of the core of […]
Jan 12 2012 | Posted in
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