Battle for Rare Earth Minerals

Battle for Rare Earth Minerals

Every one of us has seen countries fighting to gain supremacy over Oil and Oil reserves. But soon this will become history as the fight for Oil and Coal will be replaced with Critical Resources Minerals or Critical Raw Materials (CRM). These new age minerals include Cobalt, Titanium, Copper, Aluminum, Boron, Sulfur, Lithium, Phosphate, Iron, Manganese, Silicon, Nickel, Zinc, Graphite. CRM which is green and environment friendly is the future of this planet. CRM is available in few countries but again the game will be for countries who can explore…

Animal that lives on head and kicks food in mouth

Animal that lives on head and kicks food in mouth

The extraordinary animals living on their heads are Barnacles. You might have noticed barnacles encrusting large rocks at low tide and mistaken for some kind of Mollusc. Earlier called as Mollusc they were actually found to be a type of Crustaceans after noticing larvae hatching from eggs that had several features common with crustaceans. They belong to the same group to which crabs, lobsters etc. belong. The larva swims around feeding and growing and then changing into a shelled form and then chooses a place on a surface to settle…

Are flowers of the sea really friendly?

Are flowers of the sea really friendly?

If you look deeply inside sea you will realise why these flowers of the sea were once called plant-animals. These are actually sea anemones that look like plants but are actually are not flowers. They are greedy predators, catching and eating fishes, worms, crabs and any other creatures that come in contact with these plant-animals. They are meat eating animals that typically attach themselves to the seafloor or coral reefs. Their stomach is divided by partitions to increase its surface area so that it can digest larger prey also. Flowers…

India now has 2 super secret Islands

India now has 2 super secret Islands

This is a secret mission of India that have compelled Pakistan and China to restrategize their foreign policies and most of the people in India are not aware about these. This is about two very beautiful islands surrounded by blue skies. Agalega Island (bought from Mauritius on lease) & Assumption Island (bought from Seychelles on lease) that only few people know but has created a terror within Government lobbies including China. India Government had been thinking of creating military base at a location so that no one could dominate India…

Portuguese man o’ war

Portuguese man o’ war

What do you think of Portuguese man o’ war? Does it relate to defence or military based in Portugal? No. This was named for its resemblance to ship. This is actually a species of floating colony of hydra like animals called polyps, clustered together under a gas filled bladder. This animal is about 6 inches long but the trailing elements can extend upto 6o feet. This animal also known as the man-of-war, blue bottle or floating terror is a hydrozoan (very small predatory animals living mostly in salt water). This…

Simplest animal on Earth

Simplest animal on Earth

Trichoplax remains the simplest animal known on Earth having no mouth, no stomach, no muscles, no veins and even no blood. It even does not have front or back and is three cells thick only. You won’t believe it is thinner than paper. Trichoplax was accidently discovered in 19th Century by Franz Eilhard Schulze who was one of the best and top experts in Ocean sponges. He even had a laboratory full of beautiful and exotic sea creatures. Trichoplax was found hiding in a fishing tank and was dining on…

Why polar bears are eating & killing one another?

Why polar bears are eating & killing one another?

Cases of Polar Bears killing and eating each other have risen due to melting ice and human activity in the arctic region resulting in erosion of their habitat as reported by a Russian scientist. Cannibalism has risen tremendously now though earlier such cases were reported but very rare ones as observed by Ilya Mordvintsev, a scientist at Moscow’s Severtsov Institute of Problems of Ecology and Evolution. This phenomenon is primarily due to lack of food for bears and males attacking females with cubs and to some extent due to rising…

Now! Pigeonbot has come to rescue

Now! Pigeonbot has come to rescue

Developed by researchers at Stanford University, PigeonBots have come as a blueprint for this new generation as scientists have found greater value in these urban birds. Birds are very flexible and can bend their most of the body parts appealing to mankind as they can be made to do any task. Researchers bent the wings of dead Pigeons and found how wings were controlled and how the feathers were aligned. Based on these findings scientists built a robot with real pigeon feathers that could wrist and fingers could morph wing…

What is your future beyond 2020?

What is your future beyond 2020?

Have you heard putting humans on Mars and computers in brains? There will be mind blowing inventions and technology advancement in space and on planet that will have drastic impact on our daily life. I am presenting a list of projects coming and will shape our future: Year 2020 will see launch of Tesla Roadster 2.0 with production capacity going to one million per year by 2020 itself. This roadster will jump to 0-100 kmph in only 1.9 seconds and will cover whopping 1000kms on a single charge. The purchasers…

Sunfish bigger than a hot tube gets lost

Sunfish bigger than a hot tube gets lost

A very mysterious fish that should have been in southern hemisphere of earth and eluded scientists for decades has been found thousands of miles away in California. The fish is so mysterious that scientists call it “hoodwinker”. The 7 feet long fish is also the heaviest bony fish in the world. The fish normally found in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Chile was found for the first time on Santa beach in Santa Barbara County in California State on Feb 19, 2019 as per researchers in university of California,…