Omega Nebula’s ‘watercolors’ revealed in new image

September 18th, 2009 LONDON - A computer system is under development that can automatically combine images of the Martian surface, captured by landers or rovers, in order to reproduce a three-dimensional view of the red planet in minutes. The resulting model can be viewed from any angle, giving astronomers a realistic and immersive impression of the landscape.

September 9th, 2009 Newly fixed Hubble's deep space photos again amazeWASHINGTON — A refurbished Hubble Space Telescope is showing Earth the sharpest photos yet of cosmic beauty, complete with heavenly glows. NASA on Wednesday unveiled the first deep space photos taken by Hubble since its billion dollar repair mission last spring.

September 8th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Aquaculture, accounting for half the fish consumed globally, is imposing a heavy burden on marine resources, says a new report. The report attributes the burden to consumption of large amounts of feed derived from wild sea fish.

September 7th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A new report by an international team of researchers has determined that aquaculture, once a fledgling industry, now accounts for 50 percent of the fish consumed globally. The findings are published in the Sept.

August 20th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A new X-ray imaging technique has for the first time in a century revealed unprecedented details of a painting hidden beneath another painting by famed American illustrator Newell Convers Wyeth, who is regarded as the greatest American illustrator of the 20th century. While making a presentation at the 238th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) on Wednesday, Dr.

July 28th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Forming an international team with US experts, an IIT Kharagpur researcher is developing a new in-car yawn-detection system that will keep an eye on a driver while behind the wheel. Aurobinda Routray and his colleagues - including Indian-origin researchers Aurobinda Mishra of Vanderbilt University and Mihir Mohanty of ITER - say that their system will warn a drive to pull over and take a break when he/she starts to yawn.

July 21st, 2009 WASHINGTON - A University of Missouri professor has identified new features in the material that is being ejected from the dying star Helix Nebula, as previously unseen comet-shaped knots. The Helix Nebula is a planetary nebula, and also is one of the closest nebulae to Earth.

July 17th, 2009 MUNICH - The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has released a new and stunning image of the sky around the Eagle Nebula, a stellar nursery where infant star clusters carve out monster columns of dust and gas. Located 7000 light-years away, towards the constellation of Serpens (the Snake), the Eagle Nebula is a dazzling stellar nursery, a region of gas and dust where young stars are currently being formed and where a cluster of massive, hot stars, NGC 6611, has just been born.

July 17th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Oregon State University have extended the shelf life of lingcod fillets and possibly made them more nutritious by dipping them into an edible, protective coating enriched with fish oil. The research may give consumers a chance to eat longer-lasting, potentially healthier fish fillets.

July 14th, 2009 SYDNEY - A team of astronomers has made the most detailed map yet of a rare radio galaxy, which is like the 'blue whale' of space. According to a report by ABC News, the map of Centaurus A, a galaxy in the Centaurus constellation, covers a segment of sky 200 times the area of the full moon.

June 20th, 2009 PARIS - Herschel, the largest infrared space telescope ever flown, has obtained images of the famous 'whirlpool galaxy' for a first test observation. European Space Agency's (ESA's) Herschel opened its 'eyes' on June 14 and the Photoconductor Array Camera and Spectrometer obtained images of M51, which is popularly dubbed the 'whirlpool galaxy'.

June 17th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Trans fatty acids, present in partially hydrogenated vegetable oils in processed foods, interfere with more than one key enzyme in the regulation of blood flow, according to a study. University of Illinois emeritus veterinary biosciences professor Fred Kummerow claims that this is the first time that any study has revealed a new way in which these "trans fats" gum up the cellular machinery that keeps blood moving through arteries and veins.

June 14th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Meat and meat products have many disease-preventing, health-promoting benefits, which according to a research makes them a viable option to be used as functional foods. The research highlighted that enriching meats with fibre, probiotics and omega-3 fatty acids may help consumers to link meat with a healthy lifestyle.

June 12th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Finding it difficult to elicit donations for charitable causes due to the financial crisis? Worry not! Research from Tel Aviv University can provide you with a potent fundraising tool. According to Dr.

March 17th, 2009 MUNICH - The European Southern Observatory's (ESO's) Very Large Telescope has taken the best image ever of a strange and chaotic duo of interwoven galaxies. Known as Arp 261, the pair of galaxies has been imaged in more detail than ever before using the FORS2 instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope.