Insurer American International Group Inc struggled for survival a day after a financial tsunami swept away investment bank Lehman Brothers and forced the sale of rival Merrill Lynch in the biggest financial industry shake-up since the Great Depression.
AIG scrambled for a financial lifeline on Monday after investment bank […]
After the first beam of photons was sent zooming at nearly the speed of light around the 17-mile-long underground circular path of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva on September 10, scientists have said that it will take them a month to align the proton beams traveling in opposite directions in the LHC so […]
It’s a fight between local residents and voiceless winged birds that sit on the brink of extinction where the former clearly seems to have an edge.
The battleground is the Great Indian Bustard sanctuary located around 400 km from Mumbai and spread over the adjoining areas of Solapur and Ahmednagar districts covering over vast area of […]
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, famous for its manned missions to the moon, announced the creation of the Carl Sagan Postdoctoral Fellowships in Exoplanet Exploration on Wednesday.
The fellowship is named after the late astronomer who popularized science through his books and television appearances.
The fellows will search for life on planets outside our solar system, […]
Like most humans, many plants also react sensitively to an increased dose of ultraviolet radiation, even though they are dependent on sunlight.
With the help of pigments absorbing solar energy and light, plants produce their vitally important building blocks by means of photosynthesis.
However, this has its limits: too much sun means an over-abundance of energy and […]
Health regulators have approved the use of ionizing radiation for fresh spinach and lettuce, saying the technique already approved for other foods can help control harmful bacteria and other pathogens.
The Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday the radiation treatment also would make the leafy greens last longer and give them greater “shelf-life” for retailers […]
The technology storehouse supporting NASA’s effort to launch astronauts back to the moon by 2020 is dependent on proper funding and clear mission goals, but lacks a comprehensive testing plan, according to a new report.
Released Thursday by the National Research Council, the 158-page report stemmed from a 10-month review of NASA’s Exploration Technology Development Program […]
Tasmanian cave glow-worms are energy conservationists, which switch off lights at night-time, according to a discovery made by Queensland University researcher.
The study revealed the glow-worm’s prey-luring light output is governed by circadian rhythms, regardless of ambient light levels.
It aimed to investigate the physiology and behaviours of cave dwelling glow-worms, which are actually immature or larval […]
magnitude earthquake rattled the central Philippines, but no tsunami warning was issued, and there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage, seismologists said Friday.
The epicentre of the quake, which struck at 6:25 pm (1025 GMT), was 66 kilometres (40 miles) east-southeast of the town of Legaspi, on the main Philippines island of Luzon, the […]
The humpback whale, nearly hunted into history four decades ago, is now on the “road to recovery” and is no longer considered at high risk of extinction, an environmental group said Tuesday.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature — the producer each year of a Red List of threatened species — also upgraded the status […]