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Ringing in the ears may soon be history

Washington, July 10 : A new study by researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has shown potential to markedly reduce tinnitus, commonly known as ''ringing in the ears.'

Climate change may cause Yellowstone Geysers to stop erupting

Washington, July 10 : A long term study of Yellowstone National Park’s iconic geysers has suggested that dry spells caused by climate change are slowing, and may even stop the geysers’ clockwork-re

New cochlear implant improves hearing in noisy environments

Washington, July 10 : MED-EL Corporation has developed a novel FineHearing technology that can enable profoundly deaf people to enjoy music and hear clearly in noisy environments - two areas of hea

Jupiter’s third giant red spot chewed up by collision with siblings

London, July 10 : Jupiter’s third giant red storm has been chewed up by a collision with the planet’s other two red spots and may not survive.

Antarctica’s largest icebergs sing eerie songs

London, July 10 : Some of Antarctica’s largest icebergs can make eerie sounds, which are a result of huge lumps of ice scraping past each other and producing thousands of tiny “icequakes”.

According to a report in New Scientist, these icebergs, which travel from Antarctica to Tahiti, can sound like laughing monkeys and barking dogs.

Massive tabular icebergs break off the Antarctic ice shelf about every 50 years. Soon after the last “calving” event in 2000, unusual harmonic tremors were picked up by underwater hydrophones as far as Tahiti.

Sunlight creates asteroids’ moons by “spinning” mechanism

Washington, July 10 : A trio of astronomers from Maryland in the US, and France, have said that moons that revolve around asteroids (binary asteroids) are formed by sunlight, which can increase or

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