August2016

News Hour: Nobel Peace Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus is being honored to be an Olympic Torchbearer for the Olympic  Games in Rio, Brazil by the President of the International Olympic Committee Mr. Thomas Bach. He is...

News Hour: At least 12 people were killed and over 30 others injured when a passenger bus crashed into a trailer in Pakistan’s south Jamshoro district on Tuesday morning, reports BSS. Samaa TV said the driver...

News Hour: US billionaire Warren Buffett challenged Donald Trump on Monday to release his tax returns, a feat which the Republican presidential candidate has so far resisted, reports BSS. Trump has said he won’t release the...

News Hour: Supermassive black holes do not give off any of their own light, hence the word “black” in their name. However, many black holes pull in, or accrete, surrounding material, and emit powerful bursts of...

News Hour: Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, along with other telescopes on the ground and in space, have discovered a new type of exotic binary star: in the system AR Scorpii a rapidly spinning...

News Hour: Alone on the cosmic road, far from any known celestial object, a young, independent star is going through a tremendous growth spurt. The unusual object, called CX330, was detected as a source of X-ray...

News Hour: A team of astronomers from the University of Manchester and the University of Bonn have uncovered a hidden stellar birthplace in a nearby spiral galaxy, using a telescope in Chile. The results show that...

News Hour: Supernovae are among the most violent phenomena in the universe. They are huge explosions which put an end to the lives of certain types of stars. These explosions release immense amounts of energy, so...

News Hour: Light from a distant galaxy can be strongly bent by the gravitational influence of a foreground galaxy. That effect is called strong gravitational lensing. Normally a single galaxy is lensed at a time. The...

News Hour: New software is enabling ChemCam, the laser spectrometer on NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover, to select rock targets autonomously — the first time autonomous target selection is available for an instrument of this kind on...