- Japan on 12 March 2013
announced that it became the first country to extract the natural gas from
frozen methane hydrate successfully off the central coast.
- Researchers discovered
that the distance to our nearest neighbouring galaxy, Large Magellanic
Cloud (LMC) was 163000 light years away or 49.97 kiloparsecs.
- India ranked third on list
of countries which distribute spam all over the world, after US and China,
as per the new report of SophosLabs.
- Bhabha Atomic Research
Centre, which is the state-owned centre of India, announced that it was
developing the largest magnet of the world weighing 50000 tons.
- The Surrey Space Centre
(SSC) of the University of Surrey on 26 February 2013 announced that
STRaND-1 was launched successfully into space from India.
- Six foreign micro and mini
spacecrafts and SARAL were launched successfully by PSLV-C20 rocket on 25
February 2013 from Sriharikota.
- UK scientists discovered a
set of hydrothermal vents, the deepest anywhere in the world while
exploring the ocean floor in the Caribbean islands.
- Researchers in the third
week of February 2013 detected water traces within one of the oldest lunar
rocks which were obtained through Apollo missions on Moon.
- Astronomers discovered
that the cosmic rays originates as the aftermath of the Star Explosion,
about a hundred years after Victor Hess discovered these rays.
- NASA scientists discovered
the youngest black hole in Milky Way in Feb 2013. This youngest black hole
is 1000 years old and 26000 light years away from Earth.
- Astronomers in the third
week of February 2013 discovered six speeding stars which were racing
through the space at a speed of 3.2 million kilometres per hour.
- A new NASA study found on
12 February 2013 that large parts of the arid Middle East region lost
freshwater during the Past Decade
- NASA on 9 February 2013
announced that its Mars rover Curiosity drilled into Mars’ surface. The
drilling took place first time on 8 February 2013.
- First bionic man of the
world called Rex was unveiled on 7 February 2013 at London's Science Museum.
- The Japanese scientists
from the Saitama University in the first week of February 2013 filmed for
the first time, the thoughts of a fish.
- Scientists at the Berkeley
Lab in first week of Feb 2013 created the first of its kind genome-wide
digital atlas of gene enhancers that are found in the brain.
- Scientists from NASA in
the last week of January 2013 discovered an old star called TW Hydrae, which
they believe could create new planets even now.
- NASA on 1 February 2013
marks 10th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Columbia that perished into
the atmosphere of the Earth upon its re-entry.
- Iran on 28 January 2013
announced that it had successfully sent into space a monkey. The first
country to launch the primate into space was US in 1948.
- The space telescope of
NASA called High-Resolution Coronal Imager discovered astonishing magnetic
braids of super-hot matter in outer atmosphere of the Sun.
- Scientists brought into
use genetic storage device to download 154 sonnets of Shakespeare on the
strands of synthetic DNA.
- A team at Intel created a
device which is said to allow Stephen Hawking, the renowned physicist of
the world to communicate faster than before.
- The scientists in the
fourth week of January 2013 discovered that just a simple blood test could
be used for predicting the risk of arthritis.
- The European Space Agency
released surprising pictures of the remains of huge river which ran across
the Red Planet, Mars, on 17 January 2013.
- Swinburne University of
Technology astronomers revealed that black holes, which sit in between
various galaxies were growing at much faster pace than expected.
- Scientists at the JNU’s
School of Biotechnology claimed in the third week of January 2013 that
they found the SCO2 gene which can restrict tumours.
- Kaspersky Lab, the Russian
cyber security firm on 14 January 2013 revealed that India is among
various nations which are hit by the cyber spying campaign.
- Researchers from the
University of Georgia revealed in the 3rd week of Jan 2013 that they were
creating technology which helps identify the plants in pain.
- Researchers at the
University of California, in the third week of Jan 2013 developed a fresh
technique that enables surgeons to find out the reach of tumours.
- Astronomers from
University of Central Lancashire have discovered largest known structure
in the Universe called as a Large Quasar Group (LQG) in January 2013
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