April 30, 2009 (Thursday)

• The origin of Aurora Borealis is found—electric space tornadoes. (TimesOnline)

April 21, 2009 (Tuesday)

• Modern technology maps new sections of the Great Wall of China
  Great Wall of China
  The Great Wall of China is a series of stone and earthen fortifications in northern China, built originally to protect the northern borders of the Chinese Empire against intrusions by various nomadic groups...
  
  . (BBC News)
• Scientists discover Gliese 581 e
  Gliese 581 e
  Gliese 581 e or Gl 581 e is an extrasolar planet found around Gliese 581, an M3V red dwarf star approximately 20.5 light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Libra...
  
  , the smallest exoplanet ever found. They also find that Gliese 581 d
  Gliese 581 d
  Gliese 581 d or Gl 581 d is an extrasolar planet orbiting the star Gliese 581 approximately 20 light-years away in the constellation of Libra. It is the third planet discovered in the system and the fifth in order from the star....
  
  , an exoplanet known since 2007, lies in the habitable zone
  Habitable zone
  In astronomy and astrobiology, a habitable zone is an umbrella term for regions that are considered favourable to life. The concept is inferred from the empirical study of conditions favourable for Life on Earth...
  
  , meaning it could harbor liquid water. (MSNBC)

April 19, 2009 (Sunday)

• Egyptian archaeologist finds artifacts
  Artifact (archaeology)
  An artifact or artefact is "something made or given shape by man, such as a tool or a work of art, esp an object of archaeological interest"...
  
   which may lead to Cleopatra's tomb. (AP)

April 16, 2009 (Thursday)

• Asexual
  Asexual reproduction
  Asexual reproduction is a mode of reproduction by which offspring arise from a single parent, and inherit the genes of that parent only, it is reproduction which does not involve meiosis, ploidy reduction, or fertilization. A more stringent definition is agamogenesis which is reproduction without...
  
   ants discovered in the Amazon
  Amazon Rainforest
  The Amazon Rainforest , also known in English as Amazonia or the Amazon Jungle, is a moist broadleaf forest that covers most of the Amazon Basin of South America...
  
  . (BBC)

April 13, 2009 (Friday)

• 30 brightly coloured mummies
  Mummy
  A mummy is a body, human or animal, whose skin and organs have been preserved by either intentional or incidental exposure to chemicals, extreme coldness , very low humidity, or lack of air when bodies are submerged in bogs, so that the recovered body will not decay further if kept in cool and dry...
  
   discovered in Egyptian necropolis. (PressTV)

April 10, 2009 (Friday)

• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
  The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , pronounced , like "noah", is a scientific agency within the United States Department of Commerce focused on the conditions of the oceans and the atmosphere...
  
   launches VORTEX2
  VORTEX projects
  The Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment or VORTEX, field projects study tornadoes. VORTEX1 was the first time scientists completely researched the entire evolution of a tornado, enabling a greater understanding of the processes involved with tornadogenesis...
  
   to study tornadoes. (AP)

April 5, 2009 (Sunday)

• Welsh
  Wales
  Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...
  
   Aberystwyth University announces intelligent robot
  Artificial intelligence
  Artificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents" where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its...
  
   conducting biology experiments. (Reuters)

April 3, 2009 (Friday)

• Mushroom corals
  Fungiidae
  Fungiidae is a family of Cnidaria. It contains thirteen extant genera.-Characteristics:Species are generally solitary marine animals that are capable of benthic locomotion. These corals often appear to be bleached or dead. In most genera, a single polyp emerges from the center of the skeleton to...
  
   found to change sex from male to female and back again. (Discovery News)

April 1, 2009 (Wednesday)

• Honda
  Honda
  is a Japanese public multinational corporation primarily known as a manufacturer of automobiles and motorcycles.Honda has been the world's largest motorcycle manufacturer since 1959, as well as the world's largest manufacturer of internal combustion engines measured by volume, producing more than...
  
   demonstrates mind-reading robotic technology. (AP)