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Butterfly gets new wings

A zoo volunteer used glue, tape and pins to help an injured insect fly again after attaching a wing from a dead lookalike. The volunteer was able to save the life of a fragile butterfly by performing a wing transplant and intricately attaching a piece from a dead lookalike. Katie VanBlaricum, 36, spotted a Monarch […]
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Lord Venky goes to Mars!

Some may say that science has nothing to do with god, but Indians wouldn’t agree to that. We still put vermillion on our new computer and offer coconuts before driving a new car. No surprise that an Indian god’s name going to land on Mars with the help of NASA. The name of Lord Venkateswara […]
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Giant gummy bear-like creature found under ice

Do you like gummy bears? Of course, you do. Now what about a giant gummy bear? Yeah, much better no? Okay, now what about a living giant gummy bear? Not so hungry, are we? A team of scientists found a strange creature under 3400 metres of ice in Antarctica. Expedition Antarctica took to the waters […]
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Study in this Harry Potter classroom

A school teacher in Maryland is transforming her classroom into a magical zone. Literally!  Staci Lamb, 28, is inspiring her students with the wonder of books by transforming her classroom into a real-life Hogwarts. Lamb teaches ninth grade at Elkton High School in Maryland. She spent the past month converting her plain public school classroom […]
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Runner who makes art on the way!

What’s the relation between running and art? A lot if you ask Lenny Maughan. For the past four years, Lenny Maughan has been turning his routes into art. His paths through the city of San Francisco are carefully chosen so that, viewed on a map, they form illustrations of everything from a simple heart shape […]
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Titanic is dying, slowly…

The Titanic is decaying and slowly being eaten away by the sea.  More than 100 years ago, the ‘unsinkable’ Titanic crashed into an iceberg and sank on its maiden voyage in April, 1912. Of the 2,227 passengers and crew aboard, only 705 survived after being rescued by a nearby ship, Carpathia. The ship garnered interest […]
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Found: 3.8 million-year-old skull!

Ancient diggings are the face of our present. Literally Archaeologists have discovered a 3.8-million-year-old hominin skull in Ethiopia — a rare and remarkably complete specimen that could change what we know about the origins of one of humanity’s most famous ancestors, Lucy. The skull belongs to the species Australopithecus afarensis. It dates back to a […]
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50 years under the snow!

The Indian Army has found remains of an aircraft that crashes almost 50 years ago. An expedition by the Dogra Scouts has recovered parts of an Indian Air Force AN-12 transport aircraft that crashed in the icy mountains of Himachal Pradesh 51 years ago, killing all 102 people on board, the Indian Army confirmed this […]
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Now you can wear your AC…

Hot, sticky and exhausted… yes that’s what heat does to us. And the only thing we desire the most in scorching heat is an air conditioner. But you can’t carry an AC everywhere. Or can you? Sony recently launched a “wearable air conditioner” called Reon Pocket which can be used while travelling or anywhere you […]