The cutting edge of India’s fast breeder programme
Why India’s fast breeder programme is cutting edge? After three decades of hard work, and despite the devastating tsunami of 2004, the 500 megawatt Fast Breeder Reactor at Kalpakkam is coming up at a furious pace, says Shivanand Kanavi [...]
A greener way to keep flames away
Flame retardants are used to protect clothing and furniture from fire. But the chemicals are also used to fight forest fires: Special planes may dump thousands of gallons of flame retardants on a blaze to try to get it under control. Credit: [...]
Only an attractive return can keep the youth in farming
Many farmers’ children do not want to continue in agriculture. Most professionals may want their children to follow in their footsteps, and take over the practice, But ask a farmer whether he wants his children to follow him – and [...]
‘Exciting’ find: Possible planets without orbits
So many lonely planets with no star to guide them. Are these planets without orbits? Our Galaxy may be full of worlds without a sun to call their own.
Scattered about the Milky Way are floating, Jupiter-mass objects, which are likely to be planets [...]
Inheritance of loss
The amendment to the Hindu Succession Act in 2005 has done little to empower women to claim their rightful share of family wealth.
There is a bizarre Indian inheritance law if a childless widow dies intestate,everything that belongs to her goes [...]
Mysterious deep sea jets alter global climate
For the first time, scientists have discovered mysterious deep seat jets of water, which cause anomalies in wind, rainfall and sea temperature across the tropical Atlantic.
Strange jets of water rising from deep in the ocean repeatedly trigger [...]
Lonely Rogue Worlds Surprisingly Outnumber Planets with Suns
Astronomers have discovered a whole new class of alien planet: a vast population of Jupiter-mass worlds that float through space without any discernible host star, a new study finds.
Artist’s concept showing a free-floating planet with [...]
Dinosaur fossil found in Alta
Suncor’s significant fossil find headed to the Tyrrell. A series of unlikely events over a span of 113 million years has resulted in the discovery of what may be the oldest dinosaur remains in Alberta’s history.
Finding: The fossil found [...]
Scientists solve mystery of disappearing sunspots
A trio of top solar scientists said on Wednesday they had solved the mystery behind the disappearance of sunspots, a phenomenon that has stumped astrophysicists worldwide for more than two centuries.
The research, which will be published on [...]
Japan’s earthquake shifted balance of the planet
March 11, 2011, a devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan has actually moved the island closer to the United States and shifted the planet’s axis. A massive 8.9-magnitude quake hit northeast Japan on Friday, causing dozens of deaths, more [...]
