Heinrich Rohrer, the 1986 Nobel Prize winner in Physics for his co-invention of the scanning tunneling microscope, passed away this week.  He was 79 and died of natural causes.  The contribution of Rohrer and his colleague at IBM Zurich, Gerd Binnig, is overwhelming on the field of nanotechnology.

A new smart phone application will enable the users to detect toxins, proteins, bacteria, viruses and other molecules. It has a built-in camera and processing power as a biosensor to enable the spot tracking of groundwater contamination. Also, it combines the phone's GPS data with biosensing data which maps the spread of pathogens.

The dazzling view of streaming ash plume from Pavlof Volcano on May 18 has been captured by the astronauts who are in abroad in International Space Station (ISS). The volcano's started erupting 10 days back in the chain of Aleutian Islands of Alaska.

Smartphones are going to come as a handy aid in near future for researchers and physicians in their field as they would be able to run on-the-spot tests for medical diagnostics, environmental toxins, food safety and many more.

As per recent news, the Arctic research station had to be evacuated urgently after the ice floe hosting it has started disintegrating. It was located at 81 degrees North and 135 degrees West on Wednesday morning.

A recent study has discovered the reason behind why some tigers have white coat with sepia or dark brown stripes instead of yellow coat with dark brown stripes. The study was published on Thursday in the Current Biology journal.

Former month witnessed a company, Mars One, accepting applications from people to become the permanent human settlers on the planet Mars. More than 78,000 people replied to the applications to grab the chance of getting a one way ticket to the Red-Planet, where their new life will be telecasted on TV channels.

Another breakthrough for the aerospace has arrived for analysis in the corner of the Mojave Desert. This is the same corner where the sound barrier was first broken.

Earlier it was thought to very similar to Tyrannosaurus rex but recent research has discovered that Allosaurus was quite different from T. rex and in fact it was much better than it in certain things.

A report `State of Nature' is compiled by 25 wildlife organizations that did assessment of 3,148 species.  The report suggests that 60% species of animals and plants got decline in last 50 years.  The conservationists are of the view that the results will help them, predict the future of 59,000 species in UK.