London, Nov 10 : Scientists have used satellite tagging to reveal that the male and female species of the Great white shark travel together to spend six months at an isolated spot, an act which may be linked to courtship.

According to a report in the Telegraph, the sharks travel huge distances and mysteriously spend up to six months gathered at an isolated spot in the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii.

The stretch of ocean the sharks make for, from both California and Mexico, is not a particularly rich feeding ground, but it may act as a “singles bar”, where they can find a mate.

London, Nov 10: Here’s another addition to the list of longest names, with a Brit man claiming to have 198 letters in his name.

Derek McQueen from Kelty in Fife revealed that his father chose to name him after Rangers Football club’s entire league winning squad from 1974/75.

His birth certificate name reads: Derek Parlane Stein Jackson Hunter McCloy Kennedy Scott Forsyth Henderson Boyd Robertson O’Hara Johnstone Miller Dawson Armour McDougall McLean McKean Fyfe McDonald Jardine Young Morris Denny Hamilton Watson Greig Wallace McQueen.

“I don’t imagine many people will have longer names than myself. When folk ask me I can’t even remember them all — even after all this time,” British tabloid The Sun quoted Derek as saying.

London, Nov 10 : A new study has revealed that statins, which are normally given to people with high cholesterol levels to reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke, can be equally beneficial for people with lower cholesterol levels.

The research team has found that statins were able to reduce heart attack and stroke risk by almost 44 pct in people with high inflammation but normal cholesterol levels.

The study involving 17,800 men and women with normal cholesterol levels showed that rosuvastatin could cut deaths from heart attacks and strokes.

After a two-year follow up, the researchers found that 20mg a day of rosuvastatin could cut C-reactive protein levels by 37pct.

London, Nov 10 : A British cyclist has pedaled his way around the world on a Penny Farthing, a handmade replica of a Victorian bicycle, passing through important landmarks like India’s Taj Mahal, the Great Wall of China, Cambodia’s Angkor Wat temple complex and the Grand Canyon in the USA.

According to a report in the Telegraph, the cyclist in question is Joff Summerfield, who visited 23 countries in four continents after setting off from 0 degrees latitude at the Greenwich Observatory, UK, two-and-a-half years ago.

He averaged 11mph and covered up to 40 miles a day as he cycled across Europe into Turkey before riding through Australia and New Zealand.

London, Nov 10 : Scientists have now discovered that anti-cancer drugs, earlier believed to tear down blood vessels, actually help in building stronger and more normal blood vessels.

Previously it was believed that it was possible to cease angiogenesis, a process in which tumour generates blood vessels to feed its growth, by creating drugs targeting at stopping a key vessel growth-promoting protein, called VEGF, or vascular endothelial growth factor.

But now, researchers at the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in La Jolla have found evidence that blocking VEGF may not really halt the process, but would in turn lead to the production of more blood vessels that are not only stronger, but more normal and larger also.

London, Nov 10 : The first global marine-life census has led to the discovery of more than 200 new marine species, including giant sea stars that can grow up to 60cm across.

According to a report in Nature News, the findings, which come from the 2,000-strong international marine-scientist team, will be released at the World Conference on Marine Biodiversity in Valencia, Spain on November 11-15.

Other new species discovered include a type of giant bacteria living in the eastern South Pacific that can grow several centimeters long.

The researchers said that the bacteria could be “living fossils” that developed in the earliest ocean when oxygen was either absent or much diminished, living on hydrogen sulphide.