Water On Mars?Ever since the beginning of time, people have known that planet Earth has plenty of water, but find running water in other planets has been a little elusive - Until now! On August 5th, NASA scientists revealed that they had found dozens of dark streaks on the surface of Mars that they believe are a result of running water....
Read news articleScientists Develop 'Serial Killer' Cells to Cure LeukemiaScientists have been trying to re-program or genetically modify human cells for many years, with limited success. Now, it seems that a team of scientists from University of Pennslyvania's Abramson Cancer Center has finally managed to crack the code and, the initial results are quite exciting....
Read news articleWill.i.am, Justin Bieber, Miranda Cosgrove . . . . . Love Science? HmmmWe all know that scientists are geeks while pop stars are the coolest right? So why are Will.i.am Justin Bieber, Miranda Cosgrove and others starring in a television special called 'i.am.FIRST – Science is Rock and Roll'? Could they possibly believe that science rocks? Hmmm!...
Read news articleHugh Herr Is The Ultimate Bionic Man47-year old Hugh Herr changes his legs the way most of us change our shoes - One set to walk in, another to climb rocks with, yet another to go for a jog and, the list goes on. And these are not ordinary legs either, but ones made with state of the art materials and technology so that he can be optimal at everything he does - Making him the Ultimate Bionic Man!...
Read news articleComing To Town This Weekend - A Spectacular Meteor ShowEvery year around this time, earthlings are treated to a spectacular meteor shower that is like none other - This year is no exception and for those willing to get up in the wee hours of the morning, there is an added bonus!...
Read news articleThese Sharks Can 'Glow In The Dark' Or 'Disappear' At WillIf you were impressed by Hermione's firm grasp of the 'lumos' spell or envious of Harry Potter's invisibility cloak than you are going to be rendered speechless by these Lantern Sharks who have figured out how to 'light' up or power down and 'disappear', whenever they wish to!...
Read news articleMandrill Monkey Figures Out How To Get Some SpaceHumans have it quite easy. If they do not wish to be bothered, they either verbalize it, or better still, place a 'do not disturb' sign outside their rooms - But what's a poor monkey to do when it wants to be left alone?...
Read news articleRain & Snow Cause Chaos In World's Driest DesertLife in the 600-mile stretch of Chile's Atacama Desert has been a little chaotic lately. Production at Copper mines has been disrupted, highways blocked, football games cancelled, rooftops have collapsed and, the list goes on and on - The culprit? A 'wet' July that ushered in 3-feet of snow on the mountain ranges and, as much as, one whole inch of rain in the lower-lying areas!...
Read news articleEarth's Elusive 'Trojan' Asteroid Is Finally SpottedA team of scientists led by Martin Conner from Canada's Athabasca University have finally spotted what has been eluding scientists for centuries - Earth's very own 'Trojan' asteroid - One that share its orbit around the sun, but travels at a stable point ahead or behind, so that there is never any danger of colliding with it....
Read news articleGirls Rule At Google's First Global Science FairGirl power was quite apparent at the Mountain View headquarters of search engine giant Google last week, as officials got ready to announce the winner of its first global science fair - Nine of the fifteen quarter finalists were girls! It therefore, should come as no surprise that the winners in each of the three categories were also . . . . Girls!...
Read news articleGot Stinky Feet? Mosquitoes Will Love You!If you are one of those unfortunate souls that is constantly getting bitten by pesky mosquitoes here's a suggestion - Clean those stinky feet. At least that's what Dr. Fredros Okumu believes attracts these parasites more, to certain humans than others....
Read news articleHidden Cameras Capture Thriving Snow Leopard ColonyConservationists all over the world are cheering the discovery of what appears to be a thriving colony of Snow Leopards in a remote mountainous area of Afghanistan....
Read news articleRare Luminescent Mushrooms Re-Surface After 170 YearsSome enterprising US scientists have re-discovered an elusive glow-in-the dark mushroom that was last seen 171 years ago. English Botanist George Gardner stumbled upon it in 1840, when he noticed some young Brazilian boys playing with a glowing object - Since then, the fungi have been impossible to find....
Read news articleComing Soon - A 3D Chocolate PrinterThanks to some budding scientists from the UK, chocoholics all over the world, will soon have something to cheer about - Personalized 3-Dimensional Chocolate! What's even cooler is that this custom chocolate is not hand-crafted, but printed, using their special chocolate printer....
Read news articleShuttle Atlantis Lifts Off For Final MissionOver the last 30-years, we have all become so accustomed to watching NASA's spectacular shuttle launches, that we often take it for granted. Unfortunately, like all good things this too, has come to an end....
Read news articleWorld's Deepest-Living Land Animal Is A . . . . . Ringworm!It seems as though some worms have crawled down to where no other land animal dares to tread or should we say wriggle - 2.2 miles below the surface of the Earth. Earlier this month, scientists discovered a new species of roundworm dubbed Halicephalobus mephisto or 'devil worm' inside the goldmines of the Witwatersrand basin, near Johannesburg....
Read news articleA Rare Peek Inside Space Shuttle DiscoveryIt has been on 39 missions, completed 5,830 orbits, flown 148 million miles and spent 395 days in Space - Now NASA's flagship Space Shuttle Discovery, is getting ready for its last journey to Smithsonian's Air and Space museum in Washington D.C....
Read news articleCan Conservationists Save The Spoon-Billed Sandpiper?A team of conservationists led by the staff at the Russian branch of Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust and Birds (WWT), has just launched a last-minute attempt to save one of the world's rarest birds - The Spoon-Billed Sandpiper....
Read news articleSpectacular Eruption At Chile's Puyehue-Cordon Caulle VolcanoBefore the ash from Iceland's Grimsvotn volcano has even had a chance to settle down, another spectacular eruption is making headlines. This time around, it is not in Iceland but in the world's other volcano hotspot - Chile. After being dormant for over 50 years, one of the craters of the Puyenhue-Cordon Caulle volcano suddenly came to life on Saturday, June 4th and erupted with a fury, that has not been seen in recent times....
Read news articleLucky Few Witness Partial Eclipse Of The Midnight SunSolar eclipses, which occur when the moon comes in between the earth and the sun, are always fun to watch - So you can only imagine how cool it must have been to watch one unfold at midnight....
Read news articleTiny Shore Bird's Record-Breaking Migration TrekThe Great Snipe is a nondescript chubby little shore bird with a long beak - Not one that would be considered a great athlete, by any stretch of the imagination. However, a recent study has revealed that these seemingly non-aerodynamic birds, not only fly non-stop for long periods of time during their annual migration, but do so, at record speeds....
Read news articleGoogle Unveils Self-Driving Car TechnologyThe next time you see a car fitted with a camera on a rooftop zipping by your neighborhood, be sure to take a closer look - For it may be one of the seven self-driving cars currently being tested by search engine giant, Google Inc....
Read news articleScientists Announce 2011's Top Ten New SpeciesHaving inhabited the earth for millions of years, one would think that we have found almost every living creature there is. That apparently, is not the case - Not only do we find thousands of new species every year, scientists estimate that there are over 10 million, still waiting to be discovered....
Read news articleAnother Volcano Erupts In IcelandAbout a year ago, the world witnessed a majestic eruption from Iceland's Eyjafjallajokul volcano - the ashes from which disrupted European air travel for weeks and caused chaos all over the world. On Saturday, the world watched fearfully, as a similar scenario began to unfold at another one of the country's many active volcanoes....
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