Dolphins originated 6 million years earlier than thought
Dolphins may have been swimming the Earth’s oceans for six million years longer than previously thought and they might have had their origins in the Pacific Ocean, a new study suggests. Dolphins are the most diverse family of living marine mammals and include species such as the bottle-nose... read more »
Soon, a method to predict volcanic eruption
Preventing disasters from volcanic eruption could soon be more effective as scientists have now come closer to developing a method to predicting volcanic eruption behaviour. A process called frictional melting plays a role in determining how a volcano will erupt, by dictating how fast magma can... read more »
NASA to launch satellite in collaboration with ISRO
Washington – US space agency NASA today said it would launch a water-related satellite in collaboration with India’s ISRO. The NASA-Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Synthetic Aperture Radar mission is a part of its plan to launch in the next seven years a series of satellite... read more »
Commentary: How to get a job at Google
Mountain View, Calif. – Last June, in an interview with Adam Bryant of The New York Times, Laszlo Bock, the senior vice president of people operations for Google – i.e., the guy in charge of hiring for one of the world’s most successful companies – noted that Google had... read more »
