Australia-India Science and Technology Research award announcedOctober 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith on Wednesday announced the establishment of the Australia India Science and Technology Research Award. This new award recognises excellence in science and engineering and will be targeted at early career Australian and Indian researchers.
Real tsunami may have inspired legend of AtlantisOctober 10th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Scientists have suggested that a real tsunami may have inspired the legend of Atlantis, with evidence coming from islands close to Greece.he islands that make up the small circular archipelago of Santorini, roughly 200 km southeast of Greece, are what remain of what once was a single island, before one of the largest volcanic eruptions in human antiquity shattered it in the Bronze Age some time between 1630 B.C. to 1550 B.C.
World's most dangerous volcanoes can erupt much more quickly than believedOctober 8th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A new study has revealed that some of the world's most dangerous volcanoes can erupt much more quickly than scientists had suspected. According to a report in National Geographic News, the study took into account the massive 2008 eruption of Chile's Chaiten volcano.
Seismic forces may have twisted Italian supervolcano's innardsOctober 2nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Scientists have found that seismic forces have twisted an Italian supervolcano's interiors, giving scientists an unprecedented glimpse deep into the feature's explosive plumbing-and a better shot at deciphering when the next one might blow. The now fossilized supervolcano last erupted about 280 million years ago, leaving behind an 8-mile-wide (13-kilometer-wide) caldera, which was recently discovered in the Italian Alps' Sesia Valley.
Volcanic eruption '3000 years overdue' in Australia, warns scientistSeptember 21st, 2009 SYDNEY - A scientist has said that a volcanic eruption is "well overdue" in Australia from the past 3,000 years and there are hundreds of volcanoes that could cause trouble, from South Australia and Victoria through to Queensland. According to a report by Fairfax Digital Network, Melbourne geologist Bernie Joyce has made the warning.
'Spiderbots' inside Mount St Helens may detect impending volcanic eruptionAugust 15th, 2009 WASHINGTON - NASA scientists have placed about a dozen monitoring 'spiderbots' inside the volcanic crater in Mount St Helens in the US, which are high-tech devices that can detect an impending eruption. Mount St. Helens is one of the most active volcanoes in the US.
Scientists to study rebirth of an island after volcanic eruptionAugust 10th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A team of scientists is all set to study an island in the process of rebirth after a volcanic eruption destroyed life on it recently. When Alaska's Kasatochi Volcano erupted on August 7, 2008, it virtually sterilized Kasatochi Island, covering the small Aleutian island with a layer of ash and other volcanic material several meters thick.
Glaciers cause quakes in IcelandJuly 4th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A new study has determined that glaciers are the reason behind seismic activity and earthquakes in Iceland. The study was carried out by Kristin Jonsdottir, Roland Roberts, Veijo Pohjola, Bjorn Lund, Zaher Hossein Shomali, Ari Tryggvason, and Reynir Boovarsson from the Department of Earth Science, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
Indonesian supervolcano's eruption caused decade of fatal winters 74,000 years agoJuly 4th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Climate model simulations by a team of scientists has suggested that Indonesia's Toba supervolcano, when it erupted about 74,000 years ago, triggered a 1,000-year episode of ice sheet advance, and also may have produced a short-lived "volcanic winter", which drastically reduced the human population at the time. Previous climate model simulations of the eruption have been unable to produce the glaciation, and there are no climate observations to support the volcanic winter.
Enormous eruption reveals dead star in deep spaceJune 17th, 2009 PARIS - Astronomers, using ESA's (European Space Agency's) XMM-Newton and Integral space observatories, have observed an enormous eruption, which after careful analysis, has revealed a dead star belonging to a rare group: the magnetars. X-Rays from the giant outburst arrived on Earth on August 22, 2008, and triggered an automatic sensor on the NASA-led, international Swift satellite.
Colombia volcano eruptsJune 9th, 2009 BOGOTA - Thousands of people have been evacuated after a volcano erupted in southwestern Colombia. The Galeras Volcano erupted twice in the past two days.
Giant volcanic eruption 260 mln yrs ago may have caused global mass extinctionMay 29th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Scientists at the University of Leeds in the UK have uncovered a previously unknown giant volcanic eruption that led to global mass extinction 260 million years ago. The eruption in the Emeishan province of south-west China unleashed around half a million cubic kilometers of lava, covering an area 5 times the size of Wales, and wiping out marine life around the world.
Scientist says volcanic eruption in Congo is imminent close to city of half millionMay 8th, 2009 Scientist says volcanic eruption in Congo imminentKINSHASA, Congo — Scientists found evidence of intense volcanic activity — including tremors, pools of lava and plumes of smoke — at two volcanoes near a major city in eastern Congo, and said some residents had fled for fear of an eruption. The volcanoes in the central African nation could be about to erupt, threatening Goma, which has a population of more than half a million people, scientists said Thursday.
Bhupathi-Knowles finish runner-up in Australian OpenJanuary 30th, 2009 MELBOURNE - India's Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles of Bahamas lost to American Bryan brothers Bob and Mike in the doubles final of the Australian Open here Saturday. Bhupathi and Knowles won the first set but ran out of steam, going down 6-2, 5-7, 0-6 to second seeded Bob and Mike at the Melbourne Park.
No Australian seeded for the second successive Grand SlamJanuary 14th, 2009 MELBOURNE - It is for the second time in a row that no Australian tennis player has been seeded either for the men's or women's singles in a Grand Slam even as Australian Open begins here Monday. Following on from the US Open in New York last September, the 2009 Australian Open in Melbourne has no locals among the 64 top-ranked singles players.
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