Washington, March 16 : Scientists are aiming to re-create the perfume of Egyptian Pharaoh Hatshepsut, using residues from a 3,500 year old vessel.

Pharaoh Hatshepsut was a power-conscious woman who assumed the reins of government in Egypt around the year 1479 B. C.

It is believed that Hatshepsut was so influential that even her perfume is regarded as a demonstration of her power.

"We think it probable that one constituent was incense - the scent of the gods," said Michael Hoveler-Muller, the curator of Bonn University's Egyptian Museum.

Washington, March 16: A new study has suggested that global warming is expected to cause the sea level along the northeastern U. S. coast to rise almost twice as fast as global sea levels during this century, putting New York City at greater risk for damage from hurricanes and winter storm surge.

The study was led by Jianjun Yin, a climate modeler at the Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies (COAPS) at Florida State University, US.

According to Yin, there is a better than 90 percent chance that the sea level rise along this heavily populated coast will exceed the mean global sea level rise by the year 2100.

Washington, March 16: Space shuttle Discovery and its seven-member crew have lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on March 15th to deliver the final set of power-generating solar array wings and a new crew member to the International Space Station (ISS).

Discovery's STS-119 flight is carrying the space station''s fourth and final set of solar array wings, completing the station's truss, or backbone.

Sydney  - Without their distinctive livery, lots of little reef fish would look much the same. Colour differentiates them, not shape.

The blue-striped fangblenny, found in coral reefs in Indonesia and Australia, is different. What marks it out from every other fish known to man is that it can change colour at will.

The default colour is brown, but the fangblenny can switch to yellow or a range of other bright hues to deceive other fish.

"Their repertoire of disguises appears to prevent or reduce detection by potential victims," says Queensland University marine biologist Karen Cheney. "They may also escape from predators by hiding in a large shoal."

London, Mar 15 : Using world’s most powerful laser system, scientists are planning to replicate sun’s fiery core in experiments that may offer a clean source of energy.

Physicists are hoping to develop the first form of nuclear fusion technology that produces more energy than it consumes after more than 50 years of experimentation.

Within the next fortnight, researchers at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in California are planning to fire 192 separate laser beams capable of generating 500 trillion watts.

Washington, March 15 : An experiment testing the effects of space radiation on human nerve cells was successfully flown more than 31 kilometers high (about 99,000 feet) and safely returned to Earth by researchers at the University of Alabama in Huntsville Space Hardware Club.

"We are asking if central nervous system cells are exposed to an array of radiation, will they exhibit markers of nitrous oxide and oxidative stress which lead to CNS disease or disfunction?" said Dr. Amy Bishop, an assistant professor of biological sciences, University of Alabama.