Like Humans, the Paper Wasp Has a Special Talent for Learning Faces

ScienceDaily (Dec. 1, 2011) — Though paper wasps have brains less than a millionth the size of humans', they have evolved specialized face-learning abilities analogous to the system used by humans, according to a University of Michigan evolutionary biologist and one of her graduate students.

Children Learn Like Scientists

In the past it was considered by psychologists that children are irrational and egocentric but recent study on babies behviour shows how they learn.
Children do learn by doing experiments on different objects they analyze their experience, like scientists analyse numerical data, and for theories

Himalayan Glaciers are Melting Down

Roof of the world "Himalayan Glaciers"

are Melting Down

Glaciers in Himalayan region are melting down more rapidly than normal rate. As reported in Scientific American

one of the village of Pakistan "Brep" does not exist anymore in the same place where it was.

UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has predicted more meltdown in glaciers

in 21st century. All this is considered as consequence of pollution by greenhouse gases like CO2 .

Sleeping beauty

Sleeping beauty has now been declared molecule of the year 2009 by ISMCBBPR.

International Society for Molecular and Cell Biology and Biotechnology Protocols and Researchers announces sleeping beauty a transposon, 15 molecules were selected for this purpose.

Transposons are sequences of DNA that can move around within genome of a single cell and replicate themselves so they act as molecular parasites in the cell.

Transposons were once called as jumping gene because of their moblity within genome.These molecules can also cause mutation.

Sleeping beauty was the name given to these because they have been awakened after a long evolutionary sleep.

Renewable resource of energy, windmills providing energy more than need

A small island of Denmark is now able to manufacture its own power needs and are able to export 80million kilo-Watt/hour annually. It is 100% renewable, 20 of 21 power units (turbines) are owned by the local inhabitants.

The only draw back complained by the residents is noise pollution but the director of Samso energy Academy Denmark says "If you own a share in a wind turbine it looks better, it sounds better," he says. "It sounds like money in the bank."

Pollutant greenhouse gas CO2 can now be removed by a copper-complex compound

In and accidental discovery, Bouwman E. & team at Leiden University in the Netherlands, has found a catalytic copper complex compound can remove pollutant greenhouse gas without reacting with atmosopheric oxygen.

Scientists are considering it a faint hope towards pollution free environment.