Sunday, 16 June 2013

Youthaffairz June 2013 issue

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Science: A new study of glaciers worldwide using observations from two NASA satellites has helped resolve differences in estimates of how fast glaciers are disappearing and contributing to sea level rise. Read more ....
NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission has uncovered the origin of massive invisible regions that make the moon's gravity uneven, a phenomenon that affects the operations of lunar-orbiting spacecraft. Read more ....

Scientists using images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) have estimated that the planet is bombarded by more than 200 small asteroids or bits of comets per year forming craters at least 12.8 feet across.Read more ....

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has found the building blocks for Earth-sized planets in an unlikely place - the atmospheres of a pair of burned-out stars called white dwarfs.Read more ....

Fiction: This is a feeble attempt at translating a story by Bengali humorist Shibram Chakraborty. Shibram Chakraborty's stories are full of pun and play with words and this translation is grossly inadequate to reproduce the same. Read the full story .....

Colours: For the youth, life is a splash of colours. Whether on or off the campus, living is sheer fun, joy and laughter. Share some light moments here .....

Brain Teaser: A strong desire to be young again took hold of me when I saw my neighbour's 12-year-old son leaping up the stairs two at a time. Now, I could not do that. Well, what I could perhaps do is determine the number of stairs without actually counting them if you help me. Will you help me?