Washington, June 27: NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander’s preliminary results have indicated that the soil near the North Pole of the Red Planet is surprisingly earthlike, which is ripe for growing vegetab

Washington, June 27: A new study has shown that plants are “climbing” higher elevations on mountains to cope up with global warming.

Washington, June 27: An Indian-origin researcher at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has demonstrated that adding an invisible layer of the nanomaterials to the bottom of a metal vessel may help re

London, June 27: Geologists have suggested that a violent impact that gouged out a 90-kilometre-wide crater in the US state of Virginia 35 million years ago, may have created a new niche for life d

Washington, June 26: A computer science Ph. D.

Washington, June 26: Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have demonstrated a device that can detect explosives at distances exceeding 20 yards, by converting reflected light into sound.

ORNL’s technique involves illuminating the target sample with an eye-safe pulsed light source and allowing the scattered light to be detected by a quartz crystal tuning fork.

“We match the pulse frequency of the illuminating light with the mechanical resonant frequency of the quartz crystal tuning fork, generating acoustic waves at the tuning fork’s air-surface interface,” said Charles Van Neste of ORNL’s Biosciences Division.