Washington, March 19 : A national survey by researchers at Yale and George Mason Universities has revealed that even in the midst of a growing economic crisis last fall, over 90 percent of Americans want the United States to act to reduce global warming.

The results included 34 percent who said the US should make a large-scale effort, even if it has large economic costs.

Washington, March 19 : New evidence has emerged which determines that even a slight rise in atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, one of the gases that drives global warming, affects the stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS).

The massive WAIS covers the continent on the Pacific side of the Transantarctic Mountains. Any substantial melting of the ice sheet would cause a rise in global sea levels.

The evidence was collected by a 56-member team of scientists, which conducted a research on a 1,280-meter (4,100-foot)-long sedimentary rock core taken from beneath the sea floor under Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf during the first project of the ANDRILL (ANtarctic geological DRILLing) research program.

London, Mar 19: A Brit man has taken a photograph that shows strange shapes hovering over London, leading to speculation they could be UFOs.

Derek Burdon, 40, of Leverington, Cambs, says he was just aiming for a scenic photo of London and was stunned when he spotted what he says are four flying saucers on the far right of the pic.

Burdon took the pics 16 floors up on the rooftop of Orion House in Covent Garden in the morning.

Although invisible to the naked eye, the shapes can be clearly seen on the picture.

"We couldn''t believe it when we came to look at the photo. I just thought I would take some scenic shots of the London Eye and also Big Ben,” the Telegraph quoted Burdon, as saying.

London, March 19 : An academic from Jerusalem has claimed that the Dead Sea Scrolls were the work of the Sadducees, a class of Jewish priests dating back to the time of King Solomon.

According to a report in the Telegraph, the academic in question is Rachel Elior, a professor of Jewish philosophy at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

For more than six decades, scholars have believed the scrolls originated with a different, ascetic Jewish sect called the Essenes.

Washington, March 19: An American company has successfully tested its “flying car”, which took flight and landed at an upstate New York air strip recently.

According to a report in Boston Herald, the “roadable aircraft” was made by Terrafugia Inc., which is based in Woburn.

“This breakthrough changes the world of personal mobility. It’s what aviation enthusiasts have been striving for since
1918,” said Carl Dietrich, CEO of Terrafugia Inc.

Media members were not present to witness the test flight, the culmination of six months of testing.

But, Dietrich will show a video of the flight and display the Transition aircraft at the Museum of Science.

London, March 19: A NASA advisory team has said that the agency is planning to send a future fleet of spacecraft to Venus between 2020 and 2025, which would include two high-altitude balloons built to hover in the sulphuric acid clouds over the planet.

According to a report in New Scientist, the multi-billion-dollar mission concept, which is being considered for launch in the next fifteen years, could help reveal more about Venus’s runaway greenhouse effect, any oceans it may once have had, and possible ongoing volcanic activity.