Chennai: In a significant discovery that can be a major breakthrough in biotechnology, Indian mycologists have discovered fungi spores, considered as being able to withstand a temperature of 100-115 degrees celsius. Spores are reproductive cells capable of developing into a new individual without fusion with another reproductive cell. The team of fungi researchers found the heat-resistant spores in dead leaves. "It took us around one and a half years to...
12:44 PM, Jul 24, 2011
London: Astronomers have claimed that a planet discovered last year is the hottest ever found in the universe, where the temperature is a scorching 3,200 Celcius. The scorching temperature of exoplanet, WASP-33b also known as HD15082, is explained by its close orbit around its star, itself one of the hottest planet-hosting stars at 7,160C; it's 380 light years away in the constellation of Andromeda, the 'Daily Mail' reported. In fact,...
12:34 PM, Jan 28, 2011
Fourteen people succumbed to extreme cold in North India on Monday as temperatures plummeted across the region making people stay inside homes. Delhiites shivered in the morning as the mercury plunged to the season's lowest of 5.5 degrees Celsius even as dense fog affected air traffic. ... 
