Scientists have discovered an amazing group of ‘bioluminescent’ fungi capable of producing light through a chemical reaction, and glows in the dark! They were collected from Ribeira Valley Tourist State Park near São Paulo, Brazil.
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Imagine the river that passes through your city, flowing backwards after years! True, imagination has no boundaries and can be the bizarre. But, fact is stranger then imagination! You will agree with this opinion only after going through this study....
Photo: Scientists Dr Fakhrul Alam and Dr Tom Moir with a high-sensitivity digital sound recorder, taken from Massey University
Though the source of a strange humming sound in the New Zealand city of Auckland has still left a mystery to the...
Once again it is Los Angeles County! No, not for any achievement in the positive direction, but for possessing the state's most polluted beach. But, this time a new city -- Long Beach -- has been anointed as the county's biggest loser!
Even the...
The 10 most polluted places on the planet have been mapped! A US-based environmental charity has documented the hotspots, of which three are in Russia, with the remainder dotted in various countries, according to the Blacksmith Institute.
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The problem of drug resistance among potentially infectious microbes has become a serious concern among doctors across the world, especially those of the tropical regions. But, do you know, even our treated drinking water is aiding this...
An unknown discharge into China's Yellow River has literally turned it “red” in color! A half-mile section of the river has turned red and smelly too, after a certain discharge has been poured into the river from a sewage pipe, according to state...
The growing seasons for Australian grapes will get altered! And climate change will be the culprit behind it. This is discovered by a new survey made by the University of Melbourne and the CSIRO.
And, this alteration in the growing seasons, in...
Ice losses in the shrinking Greenland ice sheet far surpass its ice gains presently! It has been revealed by NASA for the first time by analyzing data from direct, detailed satellite measurements.
Using a novel technique, NASA's scientists at the...
Has the time for the 8-year-old daughter to step into father's shoes really come? Perhaps not yet being able to overcome the sudden shock of losing her father at this tender age, Bindi – the daughter of the ‘Crocodile Hunter’ Steve Irwin, killed...
Many of us surely have guessed how the techworld would be by the year 3000, with the unimaginable advents of technology! But, did any of us ever thing of how we – the humans -- would look like by that time?
If not, never mind! An evolutionary expert...
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Need to be barbaric to grow economy? With the growing demands for shark fin delicacies across the world, and to meet the business ends of several food industries, a median of about 38 million sharks a year is being...
Need no mentioning that plastic bags have always been a major environmental nuisance. As an initiative towards the concern, the British government has urged the consumers that they would be charged for plastic bags at supermarket and shop checkouts...
Rodents and several mammalian species are getting extinct. Blame the Earth's orbit wobbles or variations and its tilt for this devastation! Dutch scientists have studied rodent fossil records – that date back 22 million years -- in central Spain...
A 33-foot-long (10-meter-long) marine reptile from the dino-era sea creature group -- called pliosaurs – has been unearthed at a 150-million-year-old graveyard recently on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen in Svalbard archipelago of Norway.
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