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As part of its Mars exploration initiative, American space agency NASA has released a new gravity map of the red planet that is believed to have the potential of providing minutest and most detailed look of the planet’s unforeseen interiors. The improved resolution may help scientists crack certain mysteries associated with various regions of the planet that still continue to perplex humans.

The gravity maps play the same role in scanning the inside of a planet as a doctor does while conducting an X-ray to see the close organ details of a patient, said Antonio Genova from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in a NASA press release.

Sky gazers have focused their telescopes towards the sky in the search of twin comets that will make a historic flyby of earth. One of the tiny comets, Comet 252P/LINEAR, has already zoomed past earth at a safe distance of 3.3 million miles from us on Monday, while the second is scheduled to whiz past on Tuesday.

On Tuesday at around 7:30 am, Comet P/2016 BA14 will be just 2.2 million miles away while passing close to earth. It will be the third closest comet flyby in history, as per astronomers.

Astronomers and space agency have already said that the two space objects will not pose any harm to people on earth, but they may help scientists know more about comets. It will be an opportunity for astronomers to understand what these space objects actually are.

Undoubtedly, rate of planet-warming carbon dioxide is increasing at an alarming rate. A study has suggested that today’s carbon-release rate is highest since dinosaur era. In other words, we are releasing carbon into the planet’s oceans and atmosphere faster than in the past many decades.

Today, the release rate of carbon dioxide (CO2) is roughly 10 times faster than an event some 56 million years ago when earth had extreme warming temperature, as per the study published Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience. The new figure should be taken as a warning for how much climate change may affect earth and earthlings in coming times, the study added.

The students of middle school students who take breakfast at school, even after eating breakfast at home, have less chances of becoming overweight or obese in comparison to students who don’t eat breakfast at all.

The results have added to the going on debate on policy efforts to boost the number of children who get daily school breakfasts. Earlier research had shown that food consumption in the morning is linked to enhanced academic performance, improved health, and healthy body weight for children.

However, there has been a fear that a second breakfast at school after eating breakfast at home may increase the child’s vulnerability to unhealthy weight gain. In fact, breakfast packed with proteins helps teenagers cut calories.

A new ad featuring American actress Olivia Wilde has perfectly used the question ‘How Do You See Me’. The video has been released to honor the World Down Syndrome Day, on March 21.

A 19-year-old girl, AnnaRose Rubright, who is a college student with Down syndrome, has narrated the video titled with ‘How Do You See Me? Wilde is a young woman who can be seen busy with her everyday life. Wilde is shown as a woman with Down syndrome. She is working, giving time to family, watching television and doing other tasks.

“I see myself as an ordinary person with an important, meaningful, beautiful life. This is how I see myself. How do you see me”, said the19-year-old in the video.

The days of doctors penning down prescriptions that patients then take to the pharmacy are going to become a thing of past.

Beginning from March 27, New York is making electronic prescriptions compulsory in a move to make the process more effective and cut the cases of fraud and abuse.

In a statement, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said that the reform is going to make patient safety better, cut the number of fraudulent or stolen prescriptions and help fight prescription drug abuse throughout New York.

However, the program has drawn concerns from doctors regarding the widespread work that was required to obey and doubt regarding provisions of law.