Washington, March 20 : A new simulation has shown that if 193 nations had not agreed to ban ozone-depleting substances, then nearly two-thirds of Earth''s ozone would have been gone by the year 2065.

The simulation was developed by atmospheric chemists at NASA''s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, and the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, Bilthoven.

London, March 20 : A rare three-eyed lizard, which has lineage dating back to the dinosaur age, has been found in Wellington, New Zealand.

According to a report by Sky News, the reptile known as a baby `Tuatara,' has three eyes, but is said to mostly resemble a lizard.

It was found by staff at the Karori Wildlife Sanctuary, but until then had not been spotted in the country for around 200 years.

Tuatara measure up to 80cm when fully grown and can live for up to 60 years.

Washington, March 20 : A new study by scientists has determined that it would be much more difficult to detect Earth-sized worlds that are habitable than previously believed.

The study, by Lisa Kaltenegger (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) and Wesley Traub (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), examined the ability of JWST (James Webb Space Telescope) to characterize the atmospheres of hypothetical Earth-like planets during a transit, when part of the light of the star gets filtered through the planet''s atmosphere.

London, March 20 : A major 7.9-magnitude earthquake that struck off the Tonga islands region has led local radio stations to issue a tsunami warning for Tonga, Samoa and Fiji.

According to a report in the Telegraph, the quake, which hit in early morning today, was centered 130 miles south-southeast of the Tongan capital Nuku'Alofa and 300 miles southeast of Ndoi Island, Fiji.

It struck at a depth of 6.2 miles, the US Geological Survey said.

Washington, March 20 : Two Syracuse University researchers in New York have created a new surface material that can resist the growth of biolfilm, a sticky build-up of bacteria, and thus may lead to better medical implants.

Washington, March 20 : Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have announced the creation of transplantable living nerve tissue that encourages and guides regeneration in an animal model.