DrPrem Jagyasi

With the temperatures rising and rainfall decreasing i.e changing climate, female grey seals are being forced to travel further in search of fresh water. And, the male seals are taking all advantage of it! They are having comparatively more sex with..

A bacterial infection has killed more than 1,000 mallard ducks this December alone! The officials say that the cause of it might not be avian flu! The birds were found dead along a single creek in southern Idaho.

The ducks were found to have been.

China plans to develop an alternative energy source based on coal to decrease the country’s dependence on oil imports, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) informed. For developing these, the country will be investing over one trillion…

Once again, nature’s amazing and surprising treasure is found hundreds of feet below the surface of the ocean. Creeping along the Monterey Bay’s bottom, sand dunes lurk there in the cold blackness, stretching up to 15 feet high and 200 feet long!…

We have always breath a sigh of relief with the news of the drop of acid rainfall, as scientists have warned of their negative effects. But, according to a new study by U.S. researchers, a respite of such rain is no more a good news for the…

Let’s find out what most amazing creatures our researchers have discovered round this year – 2006! Here are six of the most surprising and peculiar creatures spotted by them deep under the darkness of the sea and documented on National Geographic…

Do you know, the Greenland beneath the ‘more-than-a-mile-of’ ice veil can be defined with heavily scoured mountains and valleys? Some impertinent scientists have constructed, though crude, but useful 3-D images of Greenland’s this hidden land!

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The water’s property of forming ice creates problems particularly in cryo-preservations – as the crystal that form damages cells and tissues. Anatoli Bogdan at the University of Helsinki, Finland has discovered a new property of water that can…

Has the world’s oldest species gone effectively extinct? A team had gone on an expedition in search for a rare Yangtze River dolphin. But, disappointingly, it ended Wednesday without a single of the species falling in sight. So, what should be the…

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio wants an ‘answer’ from you — answer to the problem — global warming. Perhaps he knows where to find it. To prompt visitors share their solutions, he has posted a question on the “Yahoo! Answers” Web site – it allows visitors…