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How did life originate on Earth? Here is another fundamental new theory that can provide an answer to it. There is an obscure undersea microbe that metabolizes carbon monoxide into methane and vinegar. Setting out to show it, two laboratories at Penn…

Mount Merapi does not seem to calm down with its fury. With the volcano rumbling ominously for weeks, the Indonesian authorities have ordered that thousands of residents who live on the volcano slopes are to be evacuated as a compulsory

The Earth’s magnetic field is gradually weakening. Is the Earth on track towards a polarity reversal?! The discovery has led experts to question on this. Data show the current decline in Earth’s magnetism was virtually negligible before 1860. But, it…

According to a new study, dragonflies are long-distance fliers. And they travel in the same way as the migrating birds! Researchers made this amazing discovery by following radio-tagged dragonflies from plane.

One dragonfly can travel 100 miles (160..

Is it climate warming or human hunting that led to megafauna extinction? This has been long debated, and a new radiocarbon dating results supporting this explanation, has brought this controversy to a standstill – it is climate warming.

The mammoths..

26 December 2004 — the nature astounded the world with its fury — the devastating tsunami. More than 16 months have passed, but Sri Lanka still feels the burnt of it, as the well water in many coastal areas there, is still undrinkable — they are…

While the world apparently is pulling down its greenhouse gas pollution rates, China and India do not seem to contribute much in combating these global warming demons. According to a World Bank official, greenhouse gas pollution in these two countries..

Scientists in Britain has for the first time witnessed a rare Mediterranean wasp there. Named Episyron gallicum, this wasp seeks spiders that hunt their prey on the ground. The wasp was found breeding in a quarry. It is maintained as a custom-built…

Seawater is discovered deep inside the Earth for the first time. This finding is a ground breaking discovery that sheds new light on the fate of the planet’s oceans. A detailed research on it is published in Nature.

The finding has also chilled down..

Indians can no longer boast of being the world’s biggest producer of banana, as its wild species are disappearing dramatically. Blame shrinking forests and rapid urbanization for this disappearance. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization informed…