View Image View the map of Papua New Guinea The fabulous Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna has withstood the ravages of human palate. An inhabitant of Papua New Guinea, in the South Pacific was long believed to be extinct. No scientist has ever...

On 30 June, 1908, supposedly a meteor or an asteroid thwacked near the Tunguska River, swapping more than 2000 sq km of riparian forest. Such a meteoric impact is of the biggest of its kind in modern times. The extra-terrestial body that hurtled...

People have taken to weirdest ways and put faith in occult powers to rejuvenate themselves. Ultra sophisticated people have started resorting to fanny facials and esoteric hypnotic treatments. They indulge in being anointed with nightingale excrement...

Fidel Castro has given a clarion call to the youth of Cuba, reminding them of their duty to cuba - ‘If the young people fail, everything will fail’ Now an ailing octogenarian, Castro was behind 1959 revolution that has fallen lacklustre...

Antarctica is at all time high peril; the prolific ice crust is on its way to unbecoming a wafer. The unseemly is about to happen, our planet will lose its coronet. Andrew Mackintosh et al from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, on...

Can non-stick cookware make you allergic? Yes, according to the scientists at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health in West Virginia, a constituent in Teflon non-stick coatings can make a person prone to contracting allergies. It...

Bristol Bay holds a key position in the Bering Sea fishery yielding more than two billion dollars annually. A Congressional moratorium safeguarded Bristol Bay from offshore drilling since 1989. In 1990 President H.W. Bush heightened its protection by...

This April has proved the warmest April in the annals of UK Met office so far since 1943. The present mean temperature is 10.0C as against 9.2C recorded in 1943, the earliest existing record. Meteorologists have presaged this month for the mercury to...

Every year, 28th April is commemorated as the World Day for Safety and Health at Work. Heartfelt tributes are paid by trade unions round the word who die or get maimed on account of their work. Sadly, according to WHO, a staggering figure of 200,000...

A long cherished dream fructified when Stephen Hawking, the doyen of astrophysics accomplished a zero-gravity flight in a modified Boeing 727 jet managed by a US firm Zero Gravity that took off from the space shuttle’s runaway at Nasa’s...