New Mexico [USA], July 22 (ANI): The galaxy NGC 4217 is a star-forming, spiral galaxy, similar to our own Milky Way, 67 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major.
Washington D.C. [USA], July 13 (ANI): Starspots are more common among red giant stars than previously thought. In the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics, researchers led by the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Germany report that approximately eight per cent of red gia
Mohali (Punjab) [India], July 4 (ANI): Stevioside (STE), isolated from the leaves of Honey yerba and widely used as the non-caloric natural sweeteners, can sweeten our lives in more ways than one, say scientists.
Gottingen [Germany], June 26 (ANI): Solar activity fluctuates in a rhythm of about 11 years, which is reflected among other things in the frequency of sunspots. A complete magnetic period lasts 22 years. Scientists have long been puzzling over what causes this cycle.
New Delhi [India], June 19 (ANI): The Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) has come down heavily on Maharashtra Government for entering in MoUs with three Chinese Companies worth about Rs 5000 crores under Magnetic Maharashtra 2.0 program and asked Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thac
Washington D.C. [USA], June 19 (ANI): Plasma astrophysicists at KU Leuven have created the first self-consistent simulation of the physical processes that occur during a solar flare. The researchers used Flemish supercomputers and a new combination of physical models.
Honolulu [Hawaii], June 5 (ANI): While the world has been dealing with the corona virus pandemic, researchers at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy (IfA) have been hard at work studying the solar corona, the outermost atmosphere of the Sun which expands into interplanetary spac
New Delhi [India], May 21 (ANI): Dr VK Saraswat, NITI Aayog member and President of Institute body of Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST) has announced the commercial launch of Agappe Chitra Magna, a magnetic nanoparticle-based RNA extraction kit for u
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 29 (ANI): Reliance Strategic Business Ventures Ltd (RSBVL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries, has increased its stake in US-based SkyTran Inc, a venture-funded technology company developing modern transport modes including
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], April 23 (ANI): Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences & Technology here has developed a magnetic nanoparticle-based RNA extraction kit for PCR and LAMP tests for COVID-19, and has also applied for a patent.
Washington D.C. [USA], April 10 (ANI): Newly released images of the Sun have revealed that its outer layer is filled with previously unseen, incredibly fine magnetic threads filled with extremely hot, million-degree plasma. The high-resolution observations have been analysed by researchers a
Washington D.C. [USA], Mar 5 (ANI): In a breakthrough study, researchers found that using a combination of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) along with a standard prostate biopsy is significantly more likely to detect the most aggressive prostate cancers.