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Yakutia, a region in Russia famous for reindeer pastures is now under the attack of the wolves. The region lies in the Sakha Republic, north eastern Russia. The attacks have increased so much that the state is under emergency. Thankfully, no human has been hurt in these attacks so far. Experts believe that the wolf packs…

Such an exciting news! If kilogram is getting heavier, then we all must be getting lighter, right? Or heavier? Lighter? Confused? Well this is how it works, The standard unit for the kilogram weight – known as the International Prototype Kilogram (IPK) was first introduced in 1875. The original IPK is a matchbox sized piece of platinum…

A year back a coal coloured, baseball-size meteorite was discovered in the Sahara desert. It later turned out to be a rock from Mars! A year long study of the rock has revealed that the rock is around 2 billion years old and contains more water than other Martian rocks found till date. The rock…

All our questions if the aliens exist or not will be answered in 12 years. World’s largest radio telescope will help us find that out, a leading UFO expert has claimed. Experts are building a supersized 1.3bn-pound radio telescope. This Square Kilometer Array (SKA) telescope would reveal “new and exciting possibilities,” the Daily Express reported. Finally, our questions…

Lake Ellsworth, an ancient subglacial lake in Antarctica was discovered in 1996. It lies under 2 miles of thick ice. It has been like that for almost half million years. The scientists want to drill a hole into the lake to collect samples of lake water and sediment which can give clue about climate conditions in past. The plan…

Who would have thought that when you clean your kid’s closet you will find a box full of baby snakes? Well that is what happened to a mother of a 3 year old toddler named Kyle in Australia. Sometime ago Kyle was playing in his yard and found a cluster of eggs. However, he did…

Is it true that the world is ending in 2012? This is how it all started. Sumerians who lived in ancient Mesopotamia (modern Iraq)  believed that a planet named  Nibiru existed. They predicted that Nibiru would hit Earth, and that will be the doomsday. The initial prediction was for May 2003. Well 2003 came and went,…

There is only one other place other than Earth that has stable liquid on its surface. For Earth, it is water, and for Titan it is hydrocarbons (chemicals like ethane and methane). A smaller version of the Nile River has been spotted on the largest moon of Saturn by ESA’s Cassini spacecraft. The river flows for more…

Do you know who H.C Andersen was? He was the author of the famous fairy tales like The Ugly Duckling, Emperor’s New Clothes, Thumblina and the Little Mermaid. Recently, a fairy tale titled ‘Tallow Candle’, hand written by Andersen, has been found at the bottom of a box in the National Archives,near the Danish writer’s home city. It was…

We do not know when exactly we started to make cheese. Now, there is some evidence that cheese has been here for almost 7,000 years. There are pieces of pottery discovered near a river in Poland. These vessels have little holes poked in them like a modern day strainer. Scientists have concluded that they were used…

Rhino poaching is banned as per international laws. Still, 618 rhinos were poached in South Africa in 2012, most of them in the world famous Kruger National Park. Shockingly, it  is double than the number of rhinos Poached in 2010. South Africa is home to 25,000 rhinos. This makes 85 percent of the total rhino…