Posts Tagged ‘gas’

Washington, April 8 (ANI): Scientists have completed the first study of microbes that live within the plumbing of deep-sea mud volcanoes in the Gulf of Mexico, where conditions may resemble those in extraterrestrial environments and early Earth. The study, which was partially funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), was conducted in an ... Full story

London, April 7 (ANI): In a new research, scientists have determined that some of the biggest galaxies in the early universe seem to have grown quicker than thought possible and may have bulked up on streams of gas flowing along filaments of dark matter. Monster galaxies have long been thought to take a long time to form, growing slowly by gobbling up smaller galaxies like a ... Full story

Washington, April 6 (ANI): US engineers are developing the next-generation of firefighting equipment specially designed to work in microgravity to douse out fires in space stations. According to a report in Discovery News, with a new spaceship under development, NASA is investing in next-generation fire-fighting gear that is specially designed to work in microgravity. "In space, fires are like spheres. They're not shaped like what we ... Full story

Hyderabad, April 6 (IANS) The Praja Rajyam Party (PRP) of actor-turned-politician Chiranjeevi Monday promised that if voted to power it would order judicial probe into all cases of corruption reported during the last 15 years of the Congress and Telugu Desam Party (TDP) rules. The PRP's election manifesto said the party will conduct a probe by a sitting judge of the high court into corruption in ... Full story

Hyderabad, April 6 (IANS) Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi Monday said Hyderabad and its twin city Secunderabad were sitting on a powder keg and that terrorists more dangerous than those in Kashmir reside here. He alleged that any incident happening in Gujarat or Mumbai would have links with Hyderabad. He was addressing an election meeting of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at Nizam College grounds here ... Full story

New Delhi, Apr 2 (ANI): Reliance India Ltd. (RIL) achieved a landmark in the history of oil and gas production when its deep-sea Krishna Godavari basin fields flowed to the surface on Thursday. Unlike the practice around the world of a minimum nine years, the RIL just took seven years from the date of discovery to begin gas production from the deep-sea KG-D6 block. According to ... Full story

Washington, April 2 (ANI): A new research has shown that for millions of years carbon dioxide (CO2) has been stored safely and naturally in underground water in gas fields saturated with the greenhouse gas, a finding that brings carbon capture and storage a step closer. Some models predict that CO2 would react with rock minerals to form new carbonate minerals, while others suggest that ... Full story

New Delhi, Mar 31 (ANI): Union Defence Minister A. K. Antony on Tuesday asked all concerned agencies to plug gaps in coastal security within a definite time frame. Antony, who chaired a high-level meeting of officials of various ministries and forces, called for speedy implementation of the maritime security plan, approved by the Government recently. ... Full story

Washington, March 31 (ANI): In a new research, a team of Penn State engineers has identified a tiny microbe that can take electricity and directly convert carbon dioxide (CO2) and water to methane, producing a portable energy source with a potentially neutral carbon footprint. "We were studying making hydrogen in microbial electrolysis cells and we ... Full story

Washington, March 30 (ANI): In a new study, researchers from University College Dublin have achieved a reduction in the amount of methane released by cattle, by including 2 percent fish oil in the diet of the animals. The benefits to animals of omega 3 fatty acids in fish oils have been well documented - helping the heart and circulatory system, improving meat quality and reducing methane ... Full story

London, March 28 (ANI): Scientists have reported the discovery of a methane-producing mineral on Mars. According to a report in Nature News, the evidence for the existence of the mineral, known as serpentine, was found by Bethany Ehlmann, a PhD student at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Ehlmann used a spectrometer on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to identify two small outcrops of the mineral. Serpentine arises ... Full story

Vilnius - A Lithuanian scientist told parliamentarians Wednesday that two major infrastructure projects planned to run beneath the Baltic Sea could get in each others' way, raising the possibility of a seabed scramble to finish first. Speaking to journalists after briefing the Lithuanian parliament's environment committee, Janina Baksiene of Vilnius University's department of ecology said the Nord Stream gas pipeline project running north to south beneath ... Full story

Washington, March 18 (ANI): A mechanical engineer of Indian origin is developing techniques that will help improve gas mileage by reducing the drag of vehicles. Drag is an aerodynamic force that is the result of resistance a body encounters when it moves in a liquid or gaseous medium, such as air. Reduction in drag means less fuel would be required to overcome the fluid resistance encountered by ... Full story

Munich, March 17 (ANI): The European Southern Observatory's (ESO's) Very Large Telescope has taken the best image ever of a strange and chaotic duo of interwoven galaxies. Known as Arp 261, the pair of galaxies has been imaged in more detail than ever before using the FORS2 instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope. The image proves to contain several surprises. Arp 261 lies about 70 million light-years distant ... Full story

Washington, March 13 (ANI): The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a strong new line of evidence that halos of dark matter are embedded around small galaxies. Looking into the turbulent center of the nearby Perseus galaxy cluster, Hubble discovered a large population of small galaxies that have remained intact while larger galaxies around them are being ripped apart by the gravitational tug of other galaxies. The ... Full story

London, Mar 12 (ANI): US researchers have claimed that artificial life could be created "within five years." Across the world laboratories are closing in on a "second genesis" - a breakthrough that would be one of the greatest scientific advancements of all time. According to Prof David Deamer, from California University, although making a new lifeform from scratch is a tough task he's confident it can happen ... Full story

Washington, Mar 12 (ANI): A new study has suggested that steroid doping tests currently used in international sport are 'not fit for purpose' because they ignore vital ethnic differences in hormone activity. According to the World Anti-Doping Agency, testosterones, and other hormones that boost testosterone levels, are commonly used as illicit performance enhancers in a number of sports. Evidence of abuse is determined by the testosterone: epitestosterone ... Full story

Lucknow, Mar.11 (ANI): Over a dozen Sunni Muslims were injured in clashes with riot police on Tuesday for taking out a religious procession here. The clash took place after the participants defied an Uttar Pradesh Government ban religious processions. Authorities had denied permission to hold a procession on the occasion of Eid-E-Milad-Un-Nabi, the birth anniversary ... Full story

Washington, March 11 (ANI): A new study has indicated that fumigant pumped into tented houses to kill pests remains in atmosphere six to 10 times longer than previously thought, thus becoming a potent greenhouse gas. The study was conducted by a research team led by Jens Muhle, an atmospheric chemist ... Full story

Munich, March 11 (ANI): Using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have, in a way, prepared a unique "history book" of our Universe, with exceptional 3D views of distant galaxies, seen when the Universe was half its current age. By looking at this unique "history book" of our Universe, at an epoch when the Sun and the Earth did not ... Full story