Measured by environmental impact, a humble shrimp cocktail could be the most costly part of a typical restaurant meal, scientists said Friday. If the seafood is produced on a typical Asian fish farm, a 100-gram (3.5 ounce) serving "has an ecosystem carbon footprint of an astounding 198 kilograms (436 pounds) of CO2," biologist J. Boone Kauffman said. A one-pound (454-gram) bag of frozen shrimp produces one ton of carbon dioxide, said Kauffman, …

A British scientist arrived in Karachi on Friday to examine and record the details of the 11-metre long whale shark that was towed by local fishermen to the Karachi Fish Harbour from the open sea earlier this week. He is being accompanied by a documentary production team to tape the carcass. On Thursday, Karachi Fish Harbour Authority (KFHA) officials, after weighing the carcass at Weigh Bridge, moved it to the site of a former zoological museum …

The ocean's deepest volcanic vents, kilometres below the surface, are teeming with life forms never before seen that thrive near super-hot underwater geysers, according to a new study. Eyeless shrimps and white-tentacled anemones were photographed bunched around cracks in the ocean floor spewing mineral-rich water that may top 450 degrees Celsius (842 degree Fahrenheit), researchers reported on Tuesday. The vents - baptised the Beebe Vent Field …

A mineral brought back to Earth by the first men on the Moon and long thought to be unique to the lunar surface has been found in Australian rocks more than one billion years old, scientists said Thursday. Named after Apollo 11's 1969 landing site at the Sea of Tranquility, tranquillityite was one of three minerals first discovered in rocks from the Moon and the only one not to be found, in subsequent years, on Earth. Australian scientist Birger …

The buzz surrounding AR Murugadoss's 7aum Arivu continues to mount. The Buddhist monk character portrayed by Suriya is especially interest worthy. Apparently this character is originally a Pallava prince named Bodhidharman. The Prince like Buddha himself renounces his Kingdom, becomes a monk and goes to China to spread the word about Buddhism. The existence of this Prince has been recorded in history, but Murugadoss has given a fictionalized account …

A massive wildfire on Alaska’s Brooks Mountain Range released 20 times more carbon into the air than what is annually lost from undisturbed tundra, say scientists pointing to the huge toll such incidents take on ecology. Senior scientist Gauis Shaver from Nature, Marine Biological Lab (MBL) US and colleagues suggest that an Arctic regularly disturbed by fire could mean massive releases of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere, a decrease in carbon …

Human beings will meet creatures from outer space within the next 20 years, a top Russian scientist has said. “The genesis of life is as inevitable as the formation of atoms. Life exists on other planets and we will find it within 20 years,” Andrei Finkelstein, director of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Applied Astronomy Institute, was quoted as saying by the Telegraph. Interfax news agency said the scientist was speaking at an international …

An exoplanet has been found to be the hottest planet discovered so far with a record-breaking temperature of 3,200 degrees Celsius. The planet WASP-33b, is also known as HD15082. Its scorching temperature is explained by its close orbit around its star, itself one of the hottest planet-hosting stars at 7,160 degrees Celsius, the New Scientist reports. Scientists were first alerted to WASP-33b’s existence in 2006, after observing regularly timed …

A new and different project is going to be done by Vijay, if everything falls in right place. It was initially Vikram, who was signed for this untitled project, but things turned positive for Vijay and the director is expected to take Ilayathalapathy on role. This long pending project was titled as 24 initially and now there are plans to rename the title. The shooting is said to start this year as the director completed his prior assignments. As …

Scientists working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s biggest particle smasher, have turned masses of data produced by the collider into sound for the first time. More than 40 million pieces of data are processed by the LHC every second as it seeks to prove the existence of particles such as the Higgs boson, which researchers believe endows everything in the universe with mass. Until now the LHC, which lies deep in a 17 mile-long tunnel …