Posts Tagged ‘sea’

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

Washington/Seoul, Apr.6 (ANI): Military and private experts have said North Korea has failed to fire its Taepodong-II missile after reviewing detailed tracking data that showed the missile and payload falling into the sea. Some said the failure undercut the North Korean campaign to come across as a fearsome adversary. Looking at the launch from a purely technical vantage point, space experts said the failure represented a ... Full story

Pirates seized a British-owned ship and a Taiwan-registered fishing boat after taking three vessels last weekend, officials said on Tuesday, marking a jump in the number of hijackings in the waters off Somalia this year. In the first three months of 2009, only eight ships had been hijacked in the busy Gulf of Aden linking Europe to Asia and the eastern Indian Ocean off the Somali ... Full story

Pirates seized a British-owned ship on Monday after taking three vessels over the weekend, marking a jump in the number of hijackings in the perilous waters off Somalia this year. In the first three months of 2009, only eight ships had been hijacked in the busy Gulf of Aden linking Europe to Asia and the eastern Indian Ocean off the Somali coast, according to the International ... Full story

London, Apr 1 (ANI): After a short break, English actress Jennifer Ellison is back to her sizzling modelling shoots. The 25-year-old glamour model posed in all-white lingerie alongside the catchline "someone give that bra a medal", reports the Sun. The stunner did the saucy act for Nuts photoshoot. Former Brookeside star had recently taken a break from modelling to focus on her acting. Meanwhile, Ellison left male holidaymakers gasping ... Full story

Washington, April 1 (ANI): Scientists at Newcastle University, UK, have worked out a mathematical formula that could be used to give advance warning of where a tsunami is likely to hit and how destructive it will be. The research, led by Newcastle University's Professor Robin Johnson, was prompted by the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami disaster which devastated coastal communities in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and Thailand. ... Full story

Washington, March 30 (ANI): A team of researchers from Sheffield Hallam University, UK, has developed a new, environmentally friendly coating with the help of bacteria, which protects metals against corrosion in seawater. Researcher Jeanette Gittens and colleagues have described how they had encapsulated spores s from a bacterium into a sol-gel coating, which then protected an aluminium alloy from microbial corrosion. Microbially-influenced corrosion (MIC) of metals at ... Full story

Washington, March 29 (ANI): A University of Illinois at Chicago biblical scholar will co-host "Who Was Jesus?," a new Discovery Channel documentary series that explores the life of Jesus and life in the first century. The documentary, co-hosted by University of Illinois at Chicago biblical scholar Rachel Havrelock, premieres on April 5, Palm Sunday. It will air in three consecutive one hour segments, 7 - 10 p.m. ... Full story

London, Mar 27 (ANI): Former James Bond Pierce Brosnan and Uma Thurman have been roped in to play Greek gods in a film based on Rick Riordan's novel. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the pair will be seen in Percy Jackson And The Lightning Thief, an adaptation of Riordan's first novel in his popular five-book series. The story is based on Greek mythology and centres around young ... Full story

Kavaratti Islands (Lakshadweep), Mar 26 (ANI): Indian army has undertaken an expedition in Lakshadweep Islands to spread awareness amongst the locals to save the island's fragile ecosystem. The expedition undertaken by the 'Bison Division' is to provide a taste of adventure sports to the ... Full story

Washington, March 26 (ANI): In a new research, scientists have determined that studying tornado-like rotation in volcanoes can help them to better predict the effects of volcanic eruptions. The research is based on a 200-year-old report by a sea captain and photographs of the 2008 eruption of Mount Chaiten. Scientists involved in the research ... Full story

London, Mar 26 (ANI): A heart-rending story of an unsung hero of the Titanic tragedy has emerged - 97 years after his death. New archives reveal how Arthur West, 36, perished on the Titanic after leaving a lifeboat to get his wife and children some hot milk. Arthur, a shopworker by profession, was taking wife Ada ... Full story

London, March 20 (ANI): A scientist has used Google Earth to detect a spot in the Caribbean that can trigger a tsunami in the future. According to a report in New Scientist, the spot was found by Richard Teeuw from the Geohazard Research Centre at the ... Full story

Washington, March 18 (ANI): Scientists are taking the help of a robot submarine to travel under an Antarctic glacier and learn why it has been thinning and accelerating over recent decades. Autosub, the robot submarine built and developed by the UK's National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, has been exploring Pine Island Glacier, a floating extension of the West Antarctic ice sheet, using sonar scanners to map the ... Full story

Washington, March 18 (ANI): Marine scientists have discovered a new species of jellyfish near the waters of Tasmania, which has a "rainbow glow". According to a report in National Geographic News, Jellyfish expert Lisa Gershwin caught the unnamed species in early March while swimming near a jetty off the Australian island of Tasmania with a "phototank" - a small aquarium that makes it easy to photograph ... Full story

Sydney, March 17 (ANI): An international team of geologists has claimed that photosynthesizing life forms created an excess of oxygen in the oceans 700 million years earlier than previous estimates suggest. According to a report in ABC News, bands of haematite in the Marble Bar Cherst reveal the presence of aerobic bacteria nearly 3.5 billion years ago. The research pushes back the earliest appearance of photosynthesizing organisms ... Full story

Male, Mar. 14 (ANI): The Maldives, which is threatened by rising sea level as a result of global warming, is planning to become the world's first carbon-neutral country. The President of the Island country, Mohammed Nasheed, will reveal details of a plan to achieve full carbon neutrality within 10 years on Sunday, the Independent reported. Maldives ... Full story

Washington, Mar 14 (ANI): Paris Hilton has officially moved on from Benji Madden. In a posting on her blog, she referred to her new man Dough Reinhardt as "my sexy boy." "Hey everyone, just got back from an amazing trip in Maui with my sexy boy," People quoted Hilton, 28, as stating on her MySpace Celebrity blog. "We had ... Full story

Hyderabad, Mar. 14 (ANI): The Bhartiya Janata Party manifesto for Andhra Pradesh Assembly elections, which will be released today, has specific schemes for newborn girl child, welfare of farmers and senior citizens. Under BJP's "Adabidda Andalam" scheme, Rs. 21,016 would be deposited for every girl born in the state. About two ... Full story

London, March 12 (ANI): A new research has shown that even the deepest, darkest reaches of the Antarctic abyss have been affected by global warming. The research, conducted by Gregory Johnson, of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency, and a team of international colleagues, suggests the changes could be responsible for up to 20 percent of the observed global sea-level rise. As part of the CLIVAR ... Full story