London, August 4 : The members of the social networking website Bebo, have been asked to contribute to a digital time capsule that will be sent on a 120 million-mile journey to the most Earth-like planet outside our solar system, in search of extraterrestrial life.

According to a report in the Telegraph, more than 12 million Bebo users can create their own messages to see if theirs will be one of 500 eventually selected for a place in the capsule.

Entrants to “A Message from Earth” can submit photographs, drawings or text and can make their message about any topic they want.

The final 500 will be chosen in a web vote that runs until September 30.

London, August 4 : A report has confirmed that sonar leads to behavioral changes in whales, with the animals subjected to sonar, neither diving nor feeding.

According to Nature News, this report was issued by the UK military, though it remained unpublished.

The impact of sonar on whales has become an increasingly fraught issue in recent years, with submarine exercises being linked to several high-profile mass strandings.

The US Navy has admitted concerns over sonar’s effects on marine mammals, although actual evidence for harm has been in short supply.

But military-sponsored tests now suggest that low levels of sonar, which do not cause direct damage to whales, could still cause harm by triggering behavioural changes.

London, Aug. 4 : Oxford Professor and well-known atheist Richard Dawkins has criticised parents of Muslim children and the Government for accommodating religious views and allowing creationism to be taught in schools.

The Telegraph quoted Professor Dawkins as saying in a Sunday newspaper interview that: "Teachers are bending over backwards to respect home prejudices that children have been brought up with. The Government could do more, but it doesn''t want to because it is fanatical about multiculturalism and the need to respect the different traditions from which these children come."

London, Aug 4 : Dungeon dad Josef Fritzl’s son Felix, 6, is making miraculous progress after his horrific ordeal in the cellar, and can even ride a bike and swim.

According to reports, Felix rides his bicycle in the grounds of the Austrian hospital where he was taken along with his mother and other five siblings after being rescued by the police on April 26.

Now, the doctors have taught him various skills while he gradually re-adjusts to life after the dark years he was forced to spend in the cellar.

“They have been amazed at how Felix is adapting. He is really cheerful and fascinated by everything,” News of the World quoted an hospital insider as saying.

London, August 4 : Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany have analyzed that Arctic ice is continuing to thin down to alarming levels.

According to a report in New Scientist, Christian Haas from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, and his team, estimated the thickness of late summer ice at the North Pole in 2001, 2004 and 2007.

They found that the ice was on average 1.3 metres thick at the end of the summer in 2007. By contrast, its depth was 2.3 metres in 2001 and 2.6 metres in 2004.

Melbourne/London, Aug. 4 : Britain’s defence chiefs have admitted that their servicemen were exposed to dangerous radiation levels during nuclear tests in Australia and the South Pacific in the 1950s.

The admission, made after years of denials, features in papers filed with the High Court in London by Ministry of Defence lawyers.

The Sunday Mirror newspaper said the court papers revealed that the ministry now believed that nuclear tests were responsible for the deaths of some British servicemen.

The ministry insisted that only 159 men were affected out of the 20,000 who were present.