What is Mammatus Clouds ?

Mammatus clouds are pouch-like protrusions hanging from the undersides of clouds, usually thunderstorm anvil clouds but other types of clouds as well. Composed primarily of ice, these cloud pouches can extend hundreds of miles in any direction, remaining visible in your sky for perhaps 10 or 15 minutes...

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Google Doodle marks Kannada writer Kuppali Venkatappa Puttappa aka Kuvempu's 113th birthday

Munjane manjinolu/ Pasuralli nadevaaga/ Anjisuva sanjeyolu/ Usirannu yelevaaga/ Yele poove aalisuve/ Naa ninna geeteyanu/ Yele poove solisuve/ Naa ninna preetiyanu! (Amidst the early morning dew/ Walking across the greenery/ And in the evening that is...

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Bone conduction: Get used to the voices in your head

Long established as the premier portal for sound, your ears are facing increased competition from emerging techniques for transmission through your skeleton.Bone conduction has rapidly become a critical asset for treatment of hearing loss. While a new generation of cochlear implants has had spectacular...

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Belle Gibson, fake wellness blogger, fined $410,000 over false cancer claims

Fake wellness blogger Belle Gibson has been ordered to pay a fine of $410,000 after being found guilty of misleading and deceptive conduct earlier this year. The Federal Court in Melbourne found she misled her readers when she claimed her brain cancer was cured through alternative therapies and...

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The hottest thing in the known universe is actually on Earth 👀

IT’S GETTING HOT IN HERE Every atom in the universe likes heat. They like heat so much that atoms and subatomic particles vibrate and move around when they’re hot. The hotter they are, the faster they move. Along these same lines, the colder they are, the slower they move. In fact, at absolute...

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The hero dog of 9/11 who pulled the last survivor out of the smoking rubble of Ground Zero was cloned

James Symington is about to find out whether you can clone heroism. The retired Canadian police officer – who took part in the rescue operation after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks in New York City – is scheduled to take possession Wednesday of five puppies cloned using DNA from his beloved...

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This bird can stay in the air for up to 10 months without landing

The Common Swift Is the New Record Holder for Longest Uninterrupted Flight  The bird world has its share of amazing migratory feats. Arctic Terns, for instance, are known for having the longest overall migration, with one bird racking up almost 60,000 miles on its round-trip journey...

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scientists were able to store an operating system and a film on DNA and recover it without any errors.

The world is churning out so much data that hard drives may not be able to keep up, leading researchers to look at DNA as a possible storage medium. DNA is ultra compact and doesn’t degrade over time like cassettes and CDs. In a new study, Yaniv Erlich and Dina Zielinski demonstrate...

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Why are seconds called seconds?

MINUTE MINUTES? I still have a few snatches of memory from childhood about learning to tell the time, and learning how it was divided up. In particular I remember when I first learnt how long a second actually was (considerably longer than I expected) and that there were sixty of them in a minute. I...

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Story of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571

Uruguayan Air Force flight 571, also called Miracle of the Andes or Spanish El Milagro de los Andes, the flight of an airplane charted by an Uruguayan amateur rugby team that crashed in the Andes Mountains in Argentina on October 13, 1972, the wreckage...

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What Is Sushi Grade Fish?

Few foods can rival a sliver of raw fish, impeccably fresh and minimally adorned, whether it's perched atop a mound of sushi rice or swimming in a spicy citrus bath. And yet, despite the popularity of incredibly simple dishes like sushi, sashimi, crudo, poke, and tartares on restaurant...

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Who is Mirza Ghalib, featured on today's Google Doodle ?

Google Doodle on Wednesday celebrated the birthday of Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib on his 220th birth anniversary. Mirza Ghalib, whose contribution to Urdu literature was perhaps as significant as that of Shakespeare to English, was born in Agra on December 27. Honoured with titles likeDabir-ul-Mulk and Najm-ud-Daula, he...

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