Whale shark pup rescued in Gujarat

	Whale shark pup rescued in Gujarat A newborn whale shark pup was recently freed by fishermen in Gujarat after being found caught in a fishing net, indicating that the world's largest fish may be breeding in the area, according to a media statement issued by Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) on ...
	Mount Sharp formed on Mars due to wind, not water: Scientists Though strong along the Gale Crater walls, these “slope winds” would have died down at the crater's centre where the fine dust in the air settled and accumulated to eventually form Mount Sharp. Photo: NASA. Washington, May 7: A 5.6-km high Martian ...
	NASA's Spitzer Puts Planets in a Petri Dish An Astronomer's Fantasy: Planets in the Lab If astronomers could somehow pull planets out of the sky and analyze them in the laboratory, it might look something like this artistically altered image illustrating new research from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope ...
	Now, robot that can 'discover' new objects on its own WASHINGTON: More than a good eye! Researchers, including an Indian-origin scientist, have developed a new 'smart' robot that can analyse and learn about new objects on its own. The two-armed mobile robot called HERB can 'discover' more than 100 ...
	Manmade Pollutants Keep The Planet Cool, Study Finds A new study finds that manmade pollutants and natural emissions keep the planet cooler and make clouds brighter. In previous studies, scientists have continuously emphasized on how bad manmade pollutants and natural emissions are for the atmosphere ...
	Billions of cicadas set to overrun the East Coast of the United States New Delhi: US East Coast residents can expect an invasion by cicadas any day now as billions of them will be emerging out of the earth to mate after 17 years living underground. These red-eyed insects will outnumber people 600-t0-1 from North Carolina to ...
	Mercury exposure linked to dramatic decline in Arctic foxes Scientists say that foxes in Arctic regions who feed on ocean prey are being exposed to dangerous levels of mercury. On one Russian island where the population of foxes has crashed, the researchers believe the toxin has played a key role in the decline.
	Bats drink nectar with bizarre blood-filled tongue You don't expect bats to morph parts of their bodies to find food, but that's exactly what one species does. Glossophaga soricina bats have tongues that change shape when they go in to drink nectar from a plant. The tongue is made up of multiple little hair-like ...
	X-51A Waverider Makes Hypersonic History Boeing Co's X-51A Waverider made history this week when it achieved the longest hypersonic flight by a jet-fuel powered aircraft, flying for 3-1/2 minutes at five times the speed of sound, the U.S. Air Force said on Friday.