Fiji: UN and Government assess needs in wake of ‘catastrophic’ Cyclone Winston
Feb 23, 2016, at 03:12 pm
New York, Feb 23 (Just Earth News/IBNS) The United Nations has begun its assessment of the needs for international assistance to the islands of Fiji, hit by a powerful tropical cyclone that left at least 21 people dead and more than 8,000 people sheltering in evacuation centres over the weekend.
NASA Global Hawk flies Pacific storm mission
Feb 23, 2016, at 02:50 pm
California, Feb 23 (IBNS) Extreme weather predictions on the West Coast could become more accurate with help from NASA's remotely piloted Global Hawk. Flights to look at Pacific storms as they develop began Feb. 12.
NASA sees category 5 Southern Pacific tropical cyclone hit Fiji
Feb 23, 2016, at 02:43 pm
California, Feb 23 (IBNS) NASA satellites provided data on Tropical Cyclone Winston before and after it made an historic landfall in eastern Fiji.
Philippines healthcare providers administer vaccine approved for prevention of Dengue
Feb 23, 2016, at 05:00 am
Kolkata/Lyon, Feb 22 (IBNS): Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of Sanofi, announced on Monday that vaccinations with Dengvaxia have commenced in the Philippines following official receipt of the first shipment of the vaccine earlier this month.
258 Indian villages electrified under DDUGJY
Feb 23, 2016, at 02:08 am
New Delhi, Feb 22 (IBNS) A total of 258 villages have been electrified across the country from Feb 15 to 21 under Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojna (DDUGJY).
Health Minister gives go ahead for expansion of AIIMS Trauma Centre
Feb 23, 2016, at 02:06 am
New Delhi, Feb 22 (IBNS) In a bid to strengthen the public health infrastructure and medical education in the country, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare JP Nadda gave a nod for the expansion of AIIMS Trauma Centre attached to AIIMS New Delhi on Monday.
Harsh Vardhan, Y.S. Chowdary release Seismic Microzonation reports for Delhi , Kolkata
Feb 23, 2016, at 02:01 am
New Delhi, Feb 22 (IBNS) Union Minister for Science & Technology and Earth Sciences Harsh Vardhan released Seismic microzonation reports for Delhi and Kolkata in New Delhi on Monday.
European Nuclear researchers' delegation calls on Jitendra Singh
Feb 23, 2016, at 01:59 am
New Delhi, Feb 22 (IBNS) A delegation representing task force of “European Organization for Nuclear Researchâ€, known in French as “Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire†(CERN) called on the Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Jitendra Singh here on Monday and discussed with him wide range of issues of mutual interest including the status of application put in by the Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India, recently for the associate membership of CERN.
SOFIA begins fourth year of observations
Feb 23, 2016, at 01:26 am
California, Feb 22 (IBNS) NASA’s “flying†telescope, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) aboard a highly modified Boeing 747SP jetliner, began its fourth series of science flights on Feb. 3.
Brain activity patterns during sleep consolidate memory: Study
Feb 23, 2016, at 01:19 am
London, Feb 22 (IBNS) A question on sleep and its importance was tackled by a new research at the University of Bristol that revealed how brain activity during sleep sorted through the huge number of experiences one encounters every day, filing only the important information in memory.
Fiji: UNICEF on stand-by with supplies and personnel in wake of Cyclone Winston
Feb 22, 2016, at 02:13 pm
New York, Feb 22 (Just Earth News/IBNS) In the wake of Tropical Cyclone Winston that struck the island nation of Fiji Saturday night, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said it is on stand-by to provide emergency supplies and additional personnel to support the Government as it works to determine critical needs.
Feb 21, 2016, at 02:49 am
New York, Feb 20 (IBNS)Adimab, LLC, a global leader in the discovery of human antibodies, recently reported the isolation of a broad panel of neutralizing anti-Ebola virus antibodies from a survivor of the recent Zaire outbreak.
Zika Outbreak: WHO's global emergency response plan
Feb 20, 2016, at 09:54 pm
New York, Feb 20 (IBNS) WHO has launched a global Strategic Response Framework and Joint Operations Plan to guide the international response to the spread of Zika virus infection and the neonatal malformations and neurological conditions associated with it.
NASA invites public to send artwork to an Asteroid
Feb 20, 2016, at 03:37 pm
California, Feb 20 (Just Earth News/IBNS) NASA is calling all space enthusiasts to send their artistic endeavors on a journey aboard NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft.
Record number of Americans apply to #BeAnAstronaut at NASA
Feb 20, 2016, at 03:30 pm
California, Feb 20 ( (Just Earth News/IBNS) More than 18,300 people applied to join NASA’s 2017 astronaut class, almost three times the number of applications received in 2012 for the most recent astronaut class, and far surpassing the previous record of 8,000 in 1978.
NASA scientists, engineers receive Presidential early career awards
Feb 20, 2016, at 03:29 pm
California, Feb 20 (Just Earth News/IBNS) President Obama Thursday named six NASA researchers as recipients of the 2016 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). These recipients, and 100 other federal researchers, will receive their awards in a ceremony later this year in Washington.
Bees can help boost food security of two billion small farmers at no cost – UN
Feb 20, 2016, at 02:48 pm
New York, Feb 20 (Just Earth News/IBNS) The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on Friday highlighted the publication of a new study that quantifies, for the first time, how much crop yields depend on the work of bees that unknowingly fertilize plants as they move from flower to flower.
From asthma to Zika, UN tackles links between environment and health
Feb 20, 2016, at 02:45 pm
New York, Feb 20 (Just Earth News/IBNS) The list of health conditions that can be linked to environmental pollution and degradation is long and growing, including skin cancer, lung cancer, asthma, lead poisoning, mercury poisoning, malaria, Ebola and Zika, according to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
Study finds Aboriginal children experience high burden of unintentional injury
Feb 19, 2016, at 10:15 pm
Melbourne, Feb 19 (IBNS) New research shows Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are more than one and a half times more likely to be hospitalised for unintentional injuries than non-Indigenous children, prompting calls for more targeted child injury prevention programs.
NASA introduces new, wider set of eyes on the Universe
Feb 19, 2016, at 03:44 pm
California, Feb 19 (IBNS) After years of preparatory studies, NASA is formally starting an astrophysics mission designed to help unlock the secrets of the universe -- the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST).
Hubble directly measures rotation of cloudy 'Super-Jupiter'
Feb 19, 2016, at 03:29 pm
California, Feb 19 (IBNS) Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have measured the rotation rate of an extreme exoplanet by observing the varied brightness in its atmosphere. This is the first measurement of the rotation of a massive exoplanet using direct imaging.
Pluto's 'Hulk-like' Moon Charon: A possible ancient ocean?
Feb 19, 2016, at 03:18 pm
California, Feb 19 (IBNS): Pluto’s largest moon may have gotten too big for its own skin.
El Nino passed peak, but UN weather agency warns 'not to lower guard' as impacts continue
Feb 19, 2016, at 03:00 pm
New York, Feb 19 (Just Earth News/IBNS) The 2015-2016 El Nino, one of the strongest on record, has passed its peak, but its humanitarian and economic impacts will continue for many months to come, the United Nations weather agency has announced, adding that lessons learned from this climate phenomenon would help build global resilience to weather related hazards.
How a NASA team turned a smartphone into a satellite business
Feb 18, 2016, at 02:53 pm
California, Feb 18 (IBNS) Satellites aren’t small or cheap. The Solar Dynamics Observatory launched by NASA in 2010 weighs about 6,800 pounds and cost $850 million to build and put into orbit.
NASA plant researchers explore question of deep-space food crops
Feb 18, 2016, at 02:42 pm
California, Feb 18 (Just Earth News/IBNS) NASA plant physiologist Ray Wheeler, Ph.D., and fictional astronaut Mark Watney from the movie "The Martian" have something in common — they are both botanists.
Feb 17, 2016, at 10:13 pm
New Delhi, Feb 17 (IBNS) The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday gave its approval to the Agreement for collaborative activities to be signed in the area of Traditional Medicine between Ministry of AYUSH, Government of India and the World Health Organization, Geneva.
NASA TV to broadcast U.S. cargo ship departure from space station
Feb 17, 2016, at 09:34 pm
California, Feb 17 (IBNS) After delivering more than 7,000 pounds of cargo to support dozens of science experiments from around the world, Orbital ATK’s Cygnus cargo spacecraft is set to leave the International Space Station Friday, Feb. 19.
Water birds census begins in Kashmir
Feb 17, 2016, at 07:53 pm
Srinagar, Feb 17 (IBNS) Two-day census of waterbirds began on Tuesday in 23 wetlands of Kashmir valley, which hosts a million migratory birds each winter in addition to thousands of local species.
Zika: UN health agency launches global response strategy; Member States briefed on outbreak
Feb 17, 2016, at 03:26 pm
New York, Feb 17 (Just Earth News/IBNS) As World Health Organization officials briefed United Nations Member States in New York on Tuesday on the Zika virus outbreak, the agency launched a global strategy to guide the international response to the spread of the virus and the neonatal malformations and neurological conditions associated with it.
Glow from the Big Bang allows discovery of distant black hole jet
Feb 17, 2016, at 02:50 pm
California, Feb 17 (Just Earth News/IBNS) Astronomers have used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to discover a jet from a very distant supermassive black hole being illuminated by the oldest light in the Universe. This discovery shows that black holes with powerful jets may be more common than previously thought in the first few billion years after the Big Bang.