Monthly Archives: August 2009

Mekong Delta may be inundated

Posted on August 20, 2009 by Rashid Faridi

More than a third of the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, where nearly half of the country’s rice is grown, will be submerged if sea levels rise by 1 meter (39 inches), environment ministry predicted. A sea level increase of that … Continue reading →

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Particles As Tracers For Milky Way’s Most Massive Explosions

Posted on August 20, 2009 by Rashid Faridi

Astronomers recently observed a mysterious flux of particles in the universe, and the hope was born that this may be the first observation of the remnants of “dark matter”.Several independent studies recently discovered a mysterious flux of electrons and positrons … Continue reading →

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No Matter How Well You Model it, Humans are to Blame

Posted on August 19, 2009 by Rashid Faridi

New research appearing in the online issue of the Proceedings of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists and a group of international researchers found that climate model quality does not affect the ability to identify … Continue reading →

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Comet Holds Building Block for Life

Posted on August 18, 2009 by Rashid Faridi

An amino acid, one of the essential ingredients to life on Earth, has been found in a comet for the first time , NASA reports.Scientists concluded nearly two years of thorough research on comet samples returned by the Stardust probe … Continue reading →