Washington, May 29 : A new analysis by the WWF (Worldwide fund for Nature) has determined that well planned and managed protected areas can play a key role in reducing poverty, with the relationshi

London, May 29 : In a move which is bound to be interpreted as a further step towards the militarisation of space, the Pentagon is developing sensors to pinpoint a ground-based laser attempting to blind one of its spy satellites.

According to a report in New Scientist, last year, the Space Superiority Systems Wing, a department within the US Air Force responsible for developing military space technology, called on contractors to develop technologies to “sense and attribute” a laser attack, in a program called Self Awareness/Space Situation Awareness (SASSA).

Washington, May 29 : A landmark meeting of astronomers has announced the discovery of a huge haul of exoplanets in our galaxy, which hold great significance in the hunt for “super-Earths” – rocky alien worlds a few times more massive than our own.

“This really changes things,” said Sara Seager of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who attended the International Astronomical Union meeting in Boston. “It marks the beginning of the detailed exploration of super-Earths,” she added.

London, May 29 : Scientists have shown that our ancestors had a natural liking for cooked meals, by finding that chimps, bonobos, gorillas and orang-utans all prefer cooked food to raw forms of mea

Washington, May 29 : A new study has determined that seafloor bacteria on ocean-bottom rocks appear to “feed” on the planet’s oceanic crust.

Washington, May 29 : Astronomers have detected a giant elliptical ring around a rare star known as magnetar, a highly magnetized neutron star and the remnant of a brilliant supernova explosion sign