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Why do some animals have showy ornaments such as deer antlers, peacock feathers and horns on dung beetles? Charles Darwin couldn’t figure it out, but now a Northwestern University research team has developed a mathematical model to explain the puzzling phenomenon of evolution. The mathematical model has made a surprising prediction: In animals with ornamentation, males will evolve out of ...

Following the viral video that showed a girl falling to death from a giant wheel and the text indicating that it took place in Hyderabad, the Wonderla Holidays quickly reacted stating that no such incident took place in its park and that the video could have re-surfaced from an old incident which could have happened in some other country altogether. ...

When Bellandur lake with froth made news two years ago, there were expert missions which visited the scene and submitted their report. Again two years ago when the waste from garment units mixed into the lake and caught fire due to methane generated inside, the local IISc scientists visited and submitted their report. The outcome remained lukewarm from the local ...

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday clarified that he merely hugged Lalu Prasad Yadav at Nitish Kumar’s swearing-in ceremony, but vowed not to hug the RJD leader’s ‘corruption’. "At Nitish Kumar’s swearing-in, Lalu Yadav shook my hand, pulled and hugged me. I did not take any initiative," the Aam Aadmi Party leader explained in an after-thought. He further said ...

Astronaut Scott Kelly aboard Inernational Space station has given India one last gift in a night-time image of south India with full of lights reminiscent of Diwali sky that went viral but it has left enough outcry from UFO afficianados that he was shielding a UFO at the top right corner. The website on UFO Sightings, which was in the ...

The September 16, 2015 M 8.3 earthquake west of Illapel, Chile, occurred as the result of thrust faulting on the interface between the Nazca and South America plates in Central Chile, said US Geological Survey. Considering the latitude of the earthquake, the Nazca plate is moving towards the east-northeast at a velocity of 74 mm/yr with respect to South America, ...

An unconfirmed WhatsApp Message is making rounds on mobiles that tonight, August 28, 2015 will witness Mars moving closer to Earth and its rays will be direct and nearer than usual. The widely circulated message says, “NASA warns all mobile users to keep phones away while sleeping tonight between 12:30 AM to 3:30 am IST.” The message further reads that ...

Come August, it’s time for Perseid meteor shower and this year viewers in America’s West Coat can expect the best of colourful shower in years, says NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. After midnight tonight (morning of August 11, 2015) and the following two mornings (August 12 and 13) are likely to be even better as the slender waning ...

An image sent by the Mars rover Curiosity has raised enough curiosity among the alien life believers that the Mars Cave Crab points out life structures in ancient Mars planet. This is the full screen version of the raw image sent by the Mars rover Curiosity. The high-resolution image from the Mars rover Curiosity, taken on July 29, 2014, includes ...

It hardly matter if June 30 is longer by one “second” but NASA explains that the day will be officially longer as a “leap” second will be added to it. Daniel MacMillan of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland attributes it to the eart’s rotation whch is gradually slowing down a bit thus adding leap seconds. “Earth’s rotation ...