London, July 28 : New Chelsea manager Luiz Felipe Scolari has been impressed by his Chelsea squad, and signalled the start of hostilities for the coming season as he claimed that his squad is capable of winning the quadruple -- the Premier League, the Champions League, the FA Cup and the League Cup.
Brazilian Scolari has been quiet about his hopes for his new team so far, but three weeks of working with them has convinced him he has a squad capable of winning it all.
And Scolari has laid down a challenge to his men by saying that, if they can get to three-cup finals, he knows how to win them.
London, July 28 : A controversial new theory has proposed that the clashing of supercontinents billions of years ago may have been responsible for the oxygen-rich atmosphere that sustains much of the life on Earth today.
According to a report in Nature News, the theory has been put forward by geochemists at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra.
They have suggested that as tectonic plates smashed into each other, reshaping supercontinents such as Pangaea, it set off a chain of events leading to increased oxygen in the atmosphere.
The Earth had almost negligible oxygen levels until the ''great oxidation event'' roughly 2.5 billion years ago. Today, oxygen makes up about 21% of the atmosphere.
London, July 28 : A flaked flint dating to about 200,000 years ago, found in Co Down in Ireland, hints at existence of Paleolithic man in the country.
According to a report in The Times, the discovery was at Ballycullen, ten miles east of Belfast in Ireland.
The flake is 68mm long and wide and 31mm thick, and though it seems like that it is certainly of human workmanship, its ultimate origin remains uncertain.
Its originally dark surface is heavily patinated to a yellowish shade, and the lack of sharpness in its edges suggests that it has been rolled around by water or ice, Jon Stirland reports in Archaeology Ireland.
London, July 28 : Astronomers have suggested that comets might be fragments of larger bodies that crumbled as they entered the inner solar system, seeing the puzzling abundance of comets in short solar orbits.
Short-period comets take less than 200 years to circle the sun and are thought to originate in the Kuiper belt of icy objects beyond Neptune.
London, July 28 (ANI): Scientists have invented a new device that can focus a fuzzy laser beam into a tightly focused “knife” of light, replacing the mirrors and lenses usually needed.
Lasers might be thought of as needle-like crisp beams. But the semiconductor lasers used for everything from CDs to fibre-optic broadband are more like the fuzzy, spreading beams from a flashlight.
Intricate arrangements of curved mirrors or lenses are needed to tame these into usable beams, especially if they need to travel long distances.
According to a report in New Scientist, a new device that fits to the front of the laser source makes the process much simpler and more efficient.
London, July 28 : New recruits in Zimbabwe’s army lack the most basic training and a soldier now earns 11 pounds less than the World Bank’s definition of absolute poverty which is a monthly wage of 15 pounds a month.
Corporal Peter Choto, who joined the army 10 years ago, painted a vivid picture of a military machine in headlong collapse.
President Robert Mugabe relies on the army to keep him in power and its generals are now believed to be the most powerful men in Zimbabwe.
London, July 28 : Astronomers have suggested that comets might be fragments of larger bodies that crumbled as they entered the inner solar system, seeing the puzzling abundance of comets in short solar orbits.
New recruits in Zimbabwe’s army lack the most basic training and a soldier now earns 11 pounds less than the World Bank’s definition of absolute poverty which is a monthly wage of 15 pounds a month.
