Nature : Science World Report

Aug 13, 2012 06:57 AM EDT

Climate Change has Deadly Effect on Amphibian World

According to a latest discovery that is being published in the Monday's Journal Nature Climate Change, climate change makes frogs more susceptible to deadly diseases.

Aug 13, 2012 06:56 AM EDT

Google Earth Tracks Lost Pyramids

Archaeologists using the Google Earth claimed to have discovered two clustered structures in Egypt that may include undiscovered pyramid. They noticed these structures have a large heap almost three times the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

Aug 12, 2012 12:40 PM EDT

Sun is Surrounded by Heaps of Dark Matter

Recently astronomers at the University of Zurich and the ETH ZÃ¼rich, together with other international researchers, have found large amounts of invisible dark matter near the Sun.

Aug 12, 2012 12:34 PM EDT

NASA Begins New Mission to Study Earthâ€™s Radiation Belt

NASA's Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) mission is set to send two spacecraft into harsh environment of our planet's radiation belt. They are set to launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket Aug. 23. The 20-minute launch window for the twin probes at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's ...

Aug 12, 2012 05:51 AM EDT

Science Teachers Destabilizing Environment

A survey presented in Portland at the national meeting of the Ecological Society of America claims that one out of the four teachers in the United States and Canada use live animals as part of their science curriculum and release them into the wild after classroom teaching.

Aug 12, 2012 05:47 AM EDT

New Species Discovered from Flickr Images

An entomologist randomly viewing the images noted the distinct pattern of veins in the insectâ€™s wings, which sport black markings and two white spots that soon struck to realization that no such specie existed till date.

Aug 11, 2012 06:18 AM EDT

Mars Also Has Land Mass Faults Like Earth

For decades the scientists were under the impression that plate tectonics didn't really exist in our solar system other than Earth. But the latest discovery by the UCLA scientists has proved the previous finding false. The team has found similar geological phenomenon involving movement of huge crust...

Aug 11, 2012 06:13 AM EDT

Mars Curiosity to Receive Brain Transplant

After successful landing on Mars the Curiosity rover has been capturing images of regions we have never explored. The Curiosity will spend first weekend on Mars transitioning to software that is better suited for the task rover will venture for its mission. A few transitions it will undergo are driv...

Aug 11, 2012 06:07 AM EDT

Unusual Strong Summer Storm over Arctic

The coast of Alaska witnessed something strange on the August 5. An unusually strong storm formed off the coast was tracked to the centre of the Arctic Ocean, where it dissipated after several days. It was on August 6 that NASA's Aqua satellite captured the natural color mosaic image with the Modera...

Aug 10, 2012 06:28 AM EDT

NASA Moon Lander Prototype Explodes During Test Flight

After the successful landing of Mars rover about 150 million miles away, NASA is faces a failure when it's experimental 'green' lander crashed during its first free-flight test on August 9.

Aug 10, 2012 05:44 AM EDT

Less Sleep in Sandpipers Leads to More Offspring: Study

You might not be able to do without sufficient sleep but male pectoral sandpipers can go more than a fortnight with hardly any sleep, the most extreme case of uninduced sleep deprivation known in any animal.

Aug 09, 2012 06:16 AM EDT

Penn Scientists Create 3D map of Dark Matter and Dark Energy

The largest ever three dimensional map of massive galaxies and distant black holes produced by Sloan digital Sky Survey III (SDSS III), helps in investigating the mysterious "dark matter" and "dark energy" that make up 96 percent of the universe.