Sydney, March 20 : A man has claimed that Alexander the Great, whose tomb has been missing for nearly 2,000 years, could be buried in Broome in Western Australia.

Tim Tutungis told ABC News that he first heard about the rumor from his old friend, Lou Batalis.

"We just got onto the subject of Alexander The Great's tomb, and he said, `They'll never ever find it, no matter where they look, because Alexander the Great is buried in Broome, in Western Australia'," Tutungis said.

London, Mar 20 : It seems that beauty is more important than brains, for a new survey has revealed that men would prefer dating beautiful bimbos than ugly, clever women.

The study carried out by www. OnePoll. com has shown that more than 50 pct men would rather go for good looking girls because it was important to impress their friends.

Nearly 80 pct of the respondents said that they would be intimidated by a clever girl.

However, the responses from girls were completely opposite.

Washington, March 20 : Scientists at the University of Illinois have moved a step closer to realising higher speed electronics and higher performance electrical and optical integrated circuits, for they have successfully created a microwave signal mixer made from a tunnel-junction transistor laser.

The researchers have revealed that their mixing device accepts two electrical inputs, and produces an optical signal that was measured at frequencies of up to 22.7 gigahertz.

Washington, March 20 : New pictures have revealed that mysterious “corkscrew” waves appear to be pushing heat from the sun’s surface to its outer atmosphere, which could help solve the mystery of how the sun is able to heat its atmosphere to millions of degrees hotter than its surface.

According to a report in National Geographic News, the pictures were taken with the help of the Swedish Solar Telescope in the Canary Islands.

The telescope was used to watch the motion of bright spots in the sun’s atmosphere that correspond to the release of millions of degrees of heat.

Washington, March 20 : Scientists have reconstructed the fossil of a crustacean-like creature, to reveal that it is just one part of a complex and remarkable new animal dating back to 500 million years, that sheds light on the origin of the largest group of living animals, the arthropods.

Hurdia Victoria, the creature in question, was originally described in 1912 as a crustacean-like animal.

The fossil fragments puzzled together come from the famous 505 million year old Burgess Shale, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in British Columbia, Canada.

London, March 20 : Scientists have created a new material that is stronger than steel and stiffer than diamond, weighs little more than its volume in air, and could be the perfect artificial muscle for robots.

According to a report in New Scientist, scientists at the University of Texas, Dallas, US, developed the material.

"We've made a totally new type of artificial muscle that is able to provide performance characteristics that have not previously been obtained," said Ray Baughman, a materials scientist at the University of Texas, and co-developer of the new muscle.