CryoSat

CryoSat-2 is a radar spacecraft, launched in 2010. Scientists have spent the past two years getting to grips with its data. Recently (April 2012), they have reported that CryoSat was now delivering an unprecedented view of the seasonal growth and ..

JUICE Mission

Juice Mission is the name of a proposed mission to study Jupiter’s icy moons. The Juice (JUpiter ICy moon Explorer) proposal envisages an instrument-packed, near five-tonne satellite at launch that would be sent out to the Solar System’s biggest planet, ..

Snowball Earth

The Snowball Earth hypothesis posits that the Earth’s surface became entirely or nearly entirely frozen at least once, some time earlier than 650 Ma (million years ago). View of Proponents Proponents of the hypothesis argue that it best explains sedimentary ..

Biochrome in context with C-DAC

The bioinformatics resources and applications facility (BRAF) of the centre for development of advanced computing (C-DAC) has developed a supercomputing cluster called as biochrome to aid computational biology research with an investment of Rs. 1 crore. It is an advanced ..

Watson Supercomputer

Watson supercomputer (named after IBM’s first president, Thomas J. Watson) was first in news in 2011, when it played the popular quiz show Jeopardy in 2011. Recently IBM said that it will be available in handheld devices within a decade. ..

Dario urops

Dario urops is the scientific name of a new species of freshwater fish in a stream in the Western Ghats in southern Karnataka in June 2012. The study was published in the latest edition of international taxonomy journal Zootaxa. The ..