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A research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association's Pediatrics publication unveiled that the anti-vaccination movement is to be blamed for measles outbreak linked to Disneyland.

The researcher said, "The ongoing measles outbreak linked to the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, shines a glaring spotlight on our nation's growing anti-vaccination movement and the prevalence of vaccination- hesitant parents".

In order to reach at the above mentioned conclusion, they have assessed the publicly available statistics. The researchers said that after seeing a significant rise in the cases of measles in America, it seems that a considerable percentage might be susceptible to infection either due to complete no vaccination or incomplete vaccination.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has rejected the proposal to create Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary, a new National Marine Sanctuary on the Central Coast, which would have stretched from Cambria to near Gaviota in Santa Barbara County.

NOAA has said that the nomination by the Northern Chumash Tribal Council was not insufficient. Lisa Wooninck, policy coordinator with the NOAA Sanctuaries regional office in Monterey, said, "It really just boiled down to the fact that some of the management considerations needed more detail".

According to the director of the Santa Lucia Chapter of the Sierra Club Andrew Christie, the Chumash can submit the nomination with additional details. The club is in favor of the formation of the sanctuary.

According to a new report, climate change is going to have destructive effects on Australia's food supply. The report named 'Appetite for Change' reveals that the taste of meat, vegetables and grains could change due to climate change.

The report also revealed that quality of these food items will also be impacted. Rising temperatures will also particularly affect dairy. David Karoly, co-author of the report, said that because of climate change the amount of bush fires and heat waves have been increased. The rise in heat-waves and bushfires poses major threat to agricultural regions of Australia.

Oregon State University's Dynamic Robotics Laboratory has developed a robot which is believed to be the fastest bipedal robot ever designed. The robot dubbed 'Atrias', which stands for Assume the Robot is a Sphere, has unusual leg design which its makers think is central to its agility and efficiency. The robot is currently under training to master different speeds before it is launched.

They explained that the four-bar carbon-fiber leg mechanism is very lightweight, softening each football instead of sending large jerks to the body.

The robot's legs are mounted to series-elastic fiberglass springs, which act as suspension and a means of mechanical energy storage.

NASA's Asteroid Grand Challenge has released a new software application that will enable members of the public to find asteroids.

The app is collaboration between NASA and space mining corporation Planetary Resources. It runs on PCs and Macs to study photos from space and spot space rocks.

Planetary Resources firm visited Austin's SXSW festival and announced an Asteroid Data Hunter challenge of $55,000 in December 2014. The goal of the challenge was to design algorithms to search for asteroids in images obtained by Earth-bound telescopes.

NASA then tested the entries on its stockpile of images of our solar system's Kuiper belt of asteroids between Mars and Jupiter.

According to scientists, they have developed a new method to develop a class of crystalline materials called as perovskites. It has a lot of potential that can be used in the clean energy world. A research team at Brown University said that perovskite in solar cells serves as outstanding light absorbers.

According to the team of researchers, this new way can help generate perovskite crystals using a solvent bath at regular room temperature. It will also prevent the requirement of a blast of heat that is needed in present methods of crystallization.