Calm solar cycle prompts questions about impact on Earth

Last Updated: Monday, November 25, 2013, 19:56

The surface of the sun has been surprisingly calm of late -- with fewer sunspots than anytime in the last century -- prompting curious scientists to wonder just what it might mean here on Earth.

Kindle Paperwhite next-gen to feature 300ppi screen

Last Updated: Monday, November 25, 2013, 17:25

Amazon's new e-reader, code-named Ice Wine, will be getting a few more hardware improvements, TechCrunch reports.

Antarctica crust similar to South India, Mozambique: Study

Last Updated: Monday, November 25, 2013, 10:53

The crust of Antarctica is similar to that of South India and Mozambique, which indicates that the three were joined together in the past.

Greenland`s ice sheet was smaller 3,000-5,000 years ago

Last Updated: Saturday, November 23, 2013, 13:08

Scientists have said that Greenland`s shrunken ice sheet was smaller than today about 3-5,000 years ago.

CBI, Kerala get SC notice in ice cream parlour sex case

Last Updated: Friday, November 22, 2013, 12:39

The alleged racket in the early 1990s involved an ice-cream parlour in Kozhikode as its base and was dubbed by the media as the "ice cream parlour sex case".

Active volcano found under West Antarctic ice sheet

Last Updated: Monday, November 18, 2013, 11:34

Researchers have discovered a smouldering volcano under a kilometer of ice in West Antarctica.

First Antarctic airborne campaign to monitor ice and land begins

Last Updated: Sunday, November 17, 2013, 13:11

With the arrival of NASA`s aircraft and scientists at the National Science Foundation`s McMurdo Station in Antarctica, the agency`s Operation IceBridge has begun its 2013 Antarctic field campaign.

Antarctica ice may contain tiny bubbles of air from 1.5 mn years ago

Last Updated: Tuesday, November 12, 2013, 14:01

A new research has suggested that tiny bubbles of air buried deep in the Eastern Antarctica ice may contain the Earth`s atmosphere as it was 1.5 million years.

ICE's takeover of NYSE to close on November 13

Last Updated: Saturday, November 9, 2013, 10:49

IntercontinentalExchange Inc said its takeover of NYSE Euronext would close on November 13, after clearing final regulatory hurdles on Friday.

New map shows how submerged Earth will look if all the ice melted

Last Updated: Thursday, November 7, 2013, 13:21

Maps created by National Geographic magazine have shown that a huge portion of eastern England, most of Denmark, and the US` entire eastern seaboard, Bangladesh and China`s huge chunk is going to get submerged if all the ice in the world melted.

`Pak glaciers melting because of rising temperature`

Last Updated: Wednesday, November 6, 2013, 16:08

Pakistan`s glaciers are continuously melting because of rising temperature, and by the year 2035, the country will no longer have water reserves in the shape of glaciers, a federal Minister said.

Ancient Antarctic ice may reveal Earth`s past climate conditions

Last Updated: Wednesday, November 6, 2013, 15:17

Scientists have identified regions in Antarctica that they claim stores data about Earth`s climate and greenhouse gases extending as far back as 1.5 million years.