The Toronto and Region Conservation Authority has cancelled the flood watch that was issued for Toronto early Friday. The flood watch was cancelled after heavy rains once again raised water levels in GTA waterways. Earlier on Friday, the city experienced yet another day of rainfall. By 6 a.m., Toronto had already received up to 40 […]
Mummified Human Toe Stolen from Dawson City Returned to Rightful Owner with Apology Letter
Dawson City, Yukon — A mummified human toe that is the key ingredient in a strange drinking ritual in Dawson City and was stolen last weekend has been returned to its rightful owner. The toe was stolen from the Downtown Hotel Sourdough Saloon in the Yukon. “We’re happy as clams about it,” Sue Taylor, the […]
NASA’s CHESS Rocket will Study the Space between Stars
On June 27, 2017, NASA will launch its CHESS (Colorado High-resolution Echelle Stellar Spectrograph) mission that aims to study vast interstellar clouds to understand more about the earliest stages of star formation. CHESS rocket will fly on a Black Brant IX suborbital sounding rocket. According to NASA, deep in space between distant stars, space is […]
NASA Launches KalamSat – World’s Smallest Satellite Made by an Indian Teen
On June 21, 2017, American Space Agency NASA launched the world’s smallest and lightest satellite, dubbed KalamSat, which was built by an Indian teen Rifath Sharook. The launch of the satellite was accomplished from Wallops Island. The total flight time of the rocket was 240 minutes post launch. The satellite was separated 125 minutes after […]
Aquatic Life in Mediterranean Sea Could Go Extinct in Coming Decades due to Warming Waters and Acidification
A new study carried out by a team of French researchers from the Villefranche-sur-Mer oceanography laboratory suggests that rising water temperatures and acidification is a big threat to acquatic life in the Mediterranean Sea. The team recorded Mediterranean surface water temperatures on a weekly basis. Researchers used their boats from the southern French town of […]
Average Annual Car Insurance Premium in the UK Increased by £90 in 2016: Consumer Intelligence
The average annual car insurance premium in the UK increased by £90 in 2016 to around £666, according to a new research carried out by Consumer Intelligence. This increase of about 15% was about five times the Consumer Prices Index rate of inflation at 2.9% in May. According to experts, premiums will increase further as […]
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Achieves the Milestone of Selling 4 Million Copies
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) has achieved the milestone of selling 4 million copies. The game was launched in late March and took less than 3 months to hit the milestone. Creator Brendan Greene aka PlayerUnknown thanked fans on Twitter for their support. The game had earlier taken just 16 days to sell 1m copies, and less […]
World’s Smallest Satellite ‘KalamSat’ Launched by NASA
NASA has launched the world’s smallest and lightest satellite, dubbed KalamSat, which was built by an Indian teen Rifath Sharook. The launch of the satellite was accomplished on 21 June 2017 from Wallops Island. The total flight time of the rocket was 240 minutes post launch. The satellite was separated 125 minutes after lift-off and […]
Millions of Glowing Pyrosomes Invade Canada and West Coast of the US
Millions of glowing, tube-shaped sea creatures known as pyrosomes have invaded the coast of the Pacific Northwest of the US and Canada. Due to their exploding populations on the west coast of US, to Alaska and British Columbia in Canada, these strange-looking creatures are quickly becoming a problem for fishermen as they clog their hooks […]
British Experts Create an Online Database of Ancient Hill Forts in the UK and Ireland
For the first time, researchers from the University of Oxford, University of Edinburgh, and University College Cork have prepared an online database of all ancient hill fort sites in the UK and Ireland. This database of about 4,147 hill fort sites provides detailed information of the hill forts, including their locations, to users. Hill forts […]
British Researchers Pump CO2 Gas in a Forest to See How Trees Cope with Rising Levels of the Green House Gas
The Free Air Carbon Dioxide Enrichment (FACE) experiment at the University of Birmingham’s Institute of Forest Research (BIFoR) has finally started. In this experiment that will run for about a decade, researchers have pumped a fenced-off section of a mature woodland full of carbon dioxide (CO2) to see how trees in this forest absorb CO2 […]
A “magical” root that people are ordering online may actually be dried hemipenis of monitor lizards
Many people place online orders for a rare Indian “magical” root, called Hatha Jodi, to bring good luck in their lives. The specialty of this root is that it looks like two praying hands. However, a nonprofit group World Animal Protection and scientists at Manchester Metropolitan University in England have cautioned that people may actually […]
Faces We are Familiar with Look Happier than those that are Unfamiliar to Us
Humans perceive familiar faces as looking happier than those faces that are unfamiliar to them, suggest findings of a new study carried out at the Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego. Some earlier studies have suggested that a human mind processes familiar faces in a manner distinct from unfamiliar faces and that familiarity […]
This Marine Creature, called Peanut Worm, Looks like Human Organ
Researchers in Australia have discovered a new species of deep sea worm that resembles like a human penis, and lives in an abyss off of Australia’s eastern coast. This weird creature was found by scientists from Museums Victoria during their recent expedition to the sea floor. According to scientists, this worm, when threatened, retracts its […]
Rare Beluga Whale Rescued from Nepisiguit River Returned to St. Lawrence Estuary
An endangered beluga whale that was rescued on June 15 from Nepisiguit River in Bathurst, N.B., was returned to St. Larence Estuary to let it reunion with a pod in its natural habitat. The rescue was completed by the officials from federal Fisheries Department Canada, marine mammal groups and scientists and involved the endangered mammal […]
57 People Killed in Raging Forest Fire in Central Portugal
At least 57 people have been killed and several injured in raging forest fires in central Portugal. Many people died because of getting trapped in their cars. Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa has described the disaster as “the biggest tragedy” of recent years. Most of the deaths occurred in the Pedrogao Grande area, about 95 […]
Rare Two-headed Porpoise Found by Fishermen off the Coast of the Netherlands
A two-headed porpoise has been discovered off the coast of the Netherlands. The discovery was made by a group of fishermen last month when they were going through their daily fishing routine. These fishermen noticed a baby porpoise stuck in one of the nets. The fishermen took photographs of the rare creature, and then threw […]
Harbour Porpoise Daisy Dies at Vancouver Aquarium
Vancouver Aquarium has lost yet another high-profile marine animal. Daisy, a harbour porpoise, died at Vancouver Aquarium on Thursday. Daisy was rescued by Vancouver Aquarium in 2008, and she was just a month old at that time. According to the aquarium staff, Daisy was receiving round the clock care after caretakers noticed a change in […]
Jupiter is the Oldest Resident of Earth’s Solar System, Study Suggests
Jupiter, the gaseous giant and the largest planet in our solar system, could also be the oldest resident of Earth’s solar system, a new study carried out by an international team of scientists from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) suggests. Using evidence from meteorites, this study indicates that Jupiter was the first to take […]
The Valley of Flowers opens for tourists
Uttarakhand’s Valley of Flowers is now open for visitors, although with some restrictions. Any visitor found using plastic within the valley will face a penalty of Rs 10,000. The government has restored all the facilities in the park including its trek route as well as the damaged bridge, and tourists can now free to enjoy […]
Remains of a Ground Sloth Found about 16 feet Below Crenshaw Boulevard in Los Angeles
Fossils of a ground sloth and a bison have been found in Los Angeles. Workers digging a tunnel for a new railway line found these remains on May 16, which include a sloth’s hip bone and a fragment of a bison’s radius bone. The remains were hidden in a sandy clay layer, about 16 feet […]
NASA Ready to Launch ‘One-of-a-kind’ NICER Mission to Study Neutron Stars
American space agency NASA is getting ready to launch the world’s first mission dedicated to study rapidly spinning neutron stars. Called the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER), the mission will be launched through SpaceX CRS-11, a cargo resupply mission, using Falcon-9 rocket. SpaceX CRS-11 was earlier scheduled to be launched on June 1, but […]
Ancient Lake on Mars could have Harbored a Variety of Microbial life around 3.5 Billion Years Ago
An ancient Martian lake could have harbored a variety of microbial life around 3.5 billion years ago, a new study has suggested. Scientists analyzed rocks from the Gale crater to reach their conclusion. Gale crater is a 96 mile wide depression that was once a vast lake. This site, according to scientists, is just perfect […]
Chimpanzees Employ Cumulative Practice and Pass Knowledge along Next Generation: Study
Humans were previously believed to be the only species to engage in cumulative practice, chimpanzees also engage in “cumulative practice” and pass knowledge from one generation to next, a new study carried out by primatologists at the University of St. Andrews has discovered. Cumulative practice refers to the process that allows subsequent generations to build […]
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