Washington, June 12 : With the increasing demand of pork, researchers from Ohio State University have warned that pigs raised without antibiotics are more likely to carry bacteria and parasite resp

Washington, June 12 : A new study on CEOs has found that many of them are overconfident about their own negotiating skills and overlook the element of luck in successful mergers, acquisitions, and

Washington, June 12: A genetic study has revealed that the woolly mammoth was not one large homogenous group and had split into two groups, with one of the groups dying out 45,000 years ago, which

Paris, June 12 : The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has decided on the term “plutoid” as a name for dwarf planets in the solar system like Pluto.

The name “plutoid” was proposed by the members of the IAU Committee on Small Body Nomenclature (CSBN), accepted by the Board of Division III, by the IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN) and approved by the IAU Executive Committee at its recent meeting in Oslo, Norway.

Plutoids are celestial bodies in orbit around the Sun at a distance greater than that of Neptune that have sufficient mass for their self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that they assume a hydrostatic equilibrium (near-spherical) shape, and that have not cleared the neighbourhood around their orbit.