Washington, Nov 7 : Now, with Barack Obama and his running mate Joe Biden being elected in the just concluded elections, speculations are rife as to who would fill their seats in the Senate, which would soon fall vacant.

Obama and Biden have until Inauguration Day (on Jan. 20) to resign their Senate seats, but it is likely they will step down sooner to prevent their replacements from losing seniority to fellow senators who are sworn in on Jan. 6.

Washington, Nov 7 : New images from the Japanese lunar satellite KAGUYA have revealed dark “seas” of volcanic rock that are as young as 2.5 million years old, which indicates that volcanoes shook up the far side of the moon for far longer than scientists thought.

According to a report in National Geographic News, until recently, the prevailing belief was that lunar volcanism started soon after the moon formed, about 4.5 billion years ago, and ended about 3 billion years ago.

KAGUYA, which was launched and began orbiting the moon in the fall of 2007, has sent back some of the first high-resolution images of the moon’s dark side.

Using these images, the research team was able to manually count craters in several regions.

Even though reports of agitation between the McCain and Palin camps bubbled up in the final weeks of the campaign, as Barack Obama began pulling away and the GOP duo was unable to regain the momentum, when the defeated team of McCain and Palin split up in Arizona on Wednesday, the personal differences were starkly visible.  

Islamabad, Nov 7 : Pakistan has said that it would work closely with the next US administration to strengthen bilateral relations.

A statement issued by Pakistan Foreign Office said that the two countries had long enjoyed a strategic and friendly partnership, and that the bilateral relationship would deepen with Barack Obama heading US administration.

Washington, Nov 7: The stress of campaigning has left U. S. President-elect Barack Obama looking older than his actual age, say reports.

A website, which runs a program called Realage. com, reckoned that Obama, who is 47 years and 3 months old, is actually 49 years and 8 months old in "true age".

Obama, who has been campaigning for two years, has been leading a stressful life, which has left him with crow''s feet and smile lines that belie his age.

Washington, Nov 7 : A new study has suggested that unknown and unseen structures, which may be located beyond the current cosmological horizon, are tugging on our universe like cosmic magnets.

According to a report in New Scientist, Alexander Kashlinsky, an astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, led the study.

Everything in the known universe is said to be racing toward the massive clumps of matter at more than 2 million miles (3.2 million kilometers) an hour—a movement the researchers have dubbed “dark flow”.

“Dark flow” was named in reference to dark energy and dark matter—two other unexplained astrophysical phenomena.