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Astronomers have found the biggest star discovered till date. R136a1, the new star, is found in the Tarantula nebula, which is one of our neighbouring galaxies. It is about 165,000 light-years away.

The brickbats may keep flying out at the organisers of the forthecoming CommonWealth Games, but the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has not lost heart. It has come up with yet another novel idea to make the Games more spectacular. It plans to build rows of waterless toilets at the venues for the first time ever in India.

cowpats - July 15 2010

Meet Autom. She talks to you everyday to help you keep a track of your eating habits and exercise regime. She provides feedback, advice and encouragement to keep you motivated. She is your weight loss coach. The twist in the story: She is a robot.

cowpats - June 15 2010

We’ve heard heaps about biofuel, green diesel and other range of fuels derived from biomass. CNG, we know, is an environmentally clean alternative to petrol or diesel. But a car that runs on coffee? Yes, you read it right. ‘Car-puccino’, built by a team from the BBC1 science programme Bang Goes the Theory, was recently on display at the Big Bang science fair in Manchester.

cowpats - May 15 2010

One of the best preserved skeletons of dinosaur, named Linheraptor Exquisitus, was found in the Gobi desert of China by two North American PhD students. It was a chance discovery when Michael Pittman from University College London,

cowpats - April 15 2010

As per a study done by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, after the 8.8 richter quake at Chile, the Earth has begun rotating faster by a millionth of a second. Research scientist Richard Gross has announced that a day will be 1.26 micro second shorter from now.

cowpats - March 15 2010

Mike Tyson possessed one. Michael Jackson too. Now other rich and famous personalities across the world can also have them. If the idea mooted by the Indonesian Ministry of Forests is anything to go by, then owning a tiger as a pet might turn out to be the most desperate conservation strategy ever planned for the endangered Sumatran tiger.

cowpats - February 15 2010

No, the shark population is not about to catch the dreaded flu. But they may well face extinction because of it. Shark liver oil is a key ingredient of the flu antidote, and its spiralling demand has emerged as a major threat to sharks.

cowpats - January 15 2010

Remember the 27 km long tunnel near Geneva called the Large Hadron Collider ruling headlines last year? The one which claimed to be the most spectacular human experiment to study evolution of life, as per theory of Big Bang and identify new smaller than the smallest particles of Physics.

cowpats - November 15 2009

270 km from the metropolitan Chennai - Dinosaurs dwelt. The fossilized eggs found in the village of Sendurai in Ariyalur district reveal this intresting bit of history. This area of Cauvery basin was probably the largest habitat for them in India. A group of researchers, including students, led by the Periyar University geology lecturer MU Ramkumar discovered the cluster of eggs.