due to poor investment and damage caused by tourists. According to a report in the Telegraph, the attraction's 2.5 million visitors per year are plagued by bogus tour guides, rubbish strewn streets and poor facilities. An article in the Corriere

A new study seems to link between elaborately and distinctively designed tattoos on the skin of indigenous Aussies to characters and motifs found on rock art and portable objects. Liam Brady of Monash University's Center for Australian Indigenous Studies says

Researchers from the University of Hawaii have discovered a new pathway for methane production in the oceans, which has a significant potential impact for the study of greenhouse gas production on our planet. According to the researchers, aerobic decomposition of

Scientists have said that a meteorite that crashed in Peru in September last year may have survived the descent towards Earth if, by a one-in-a-million chance, it lacked internal cracks and irregularities. According to a report in New Scientist, the

Chemical oceanographers have warned that human emissions of carbon dioxide have also begun to alter the chemistry of the ocean, which will likely require even steeper cuts in carbon emissions than those currently proposed to curb climate change. Ken Caldeira

A new study by zoologists at the University of Florida suggests that toads in suburban areas are less likely to suffer from reproductive system abnormalities than those in the vicinity of farms. The new finding may be significant to the

A new study on lambs' spines has shown that a child's back is much more flexible and more vulnerable to spinal damage in a car crash than previously thought. According to tests, conducted by researchers at Sydney, the young spine

A new study by researchers at the University of California, Berkley, has determined that rather than suppressing local communities in developing nations, nature reserves attract human settlement. In an analysis of 306 rural protected areas in 45 countries in Africa

New findings have indicated that endangered wild orangutan populations are declining more sharply in Sumatra and Borneo than previously estimated. The findings were published by Great Ape Trust of Iowa scientist Dr. Serge Wich and other orangutan conservation experts in

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a dynamic way to alter the shape and size of microscopic three-dimensional structures built out of proteins. Biological chemist Jason Shear and his former graduate student Bryan Kaehr have shown