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Ten years after an unusually scalloped clam was dragged up from the ocean floor off northern Vancouver Island, the tiny mollusk is making waves in the research world. Melissa Frey, curator of invertebrates at the Royal B.C. Museum, was cataloguing a number of species about four years ago when she noticed something different about the tiny clam.

The “Eye of Sauron” isn’t just something that appears in The Lord of the Rings movies. Astronomers are now using a cosmic feature with the same namesake to measure precise distances to galaxies that are tens of millions of light-years away.

A new species of dinosaur has been discovered by a British palaeontologist. Dr Nick Longrich was studying fossilised bones from two horned dinosaurs which had been stored at the Canadian Museum of Nature for 75 years. The bones had been classified as Anchiceratops and Chasmosaurus, species known to be from Canada.

An invisible ‘force field’ reminisce of Star-Trek’s deflector shields has been discovered 7,200 miles above Earth, protecting the planet from “killer electrons”.

Global warming is reshaping the Arctic so fast that a quarter of the world’s polar bear population is likely to be in serious trouble by the end of the century.

Just before a black bear attacked and killed him, New Jersey resident Darsh Patel snapped images of the animal with his cell phone. Police in West Milford have released five photos taken by 22-year-old Darsh Patel before he was killed by the 300-pound black bear while hiking with four friends in the Apshawa Preserve, 45 miles northwest of New York.

A 1,700-year-old cemetery has been excavated along the route of the Silk Road in northwest China, according to a report in Live Science. Seven of the ten excavated tombs were large, brick structures, one of which contained carvings of mythical creatures. Four of the creatures represent different seasons and parts of the heavens, including the White Tiger of the West, …

Once-pristine lakes in Ontario, Canada, are now coated by a jello-like layer of slime caused by decades of industrial activity, a new study reveals. The scum coating now present on vast bodies of water in the province is due to the rapid growth of a new type of plankton which secretes the unpleasant goo, according to a team of researchers.

A big difference between cats and dogs is how they drink water from their bowls. Dogs slosh and spill their while while cats are very neat.

Until the day of 22 November 2014, Japanese Sci/Fi addicts could only read about Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar epic on the internet or watch trailers as they were heartily waiting for the release of the movie. That Saturday marked the last major debut of the 169 minute movie and was celebrated accordingly with a number one position in the Japan Box …

Asteroid mining is closer to reality now than ever before as NASA gives contracts to two companies in the field to work upon. Deep Space Industries and Planetary Resources are among the most joyous companies at the moment. They have got lucrative contracts from none other than NASA regarding space directions and they claim that this is going to help …