New York, Sept 23 : The US administration must put its weight behind the new civilian government in Islamabad to bolster its efforts to strike against terrorists in its territory, to keep alive any realistic hope of wining the war against terror in Afghanistan and bordering tribal areas in Pakistan.

According to an editorial in the New York Times, newly-elected Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari should be extended American help to fight back militancy. It described Zardari as a political novice who faced serious corruption charges.

Washington, September 23 : An international team of earth scientists has reported movement of warmed sea water through the flat, Pacific Ocean floor off Costa Rica, which is greater than that off midocean volcanic ridges, a find that suggests possible marine life in a part of the ocean once considered barren.

A new finding reported by American, Canadian and German earth scientists suggests a rather unremarkable area off the Costa Rican Pacific coast holds clues to better understand sea floor ecosystems.

The research team that has studied the region, located between 50 and 150 miles offshore and covering an area the size of Connecticut.

Washington, September 23: A new study has indicated that modest cutbacks in CO2 (carbon dioxide) emissions may be too little, and it might be too late to save coral reefs.

Ocean acidification could devastate coral reefs and other marine ecosystems even if atmospheric carbon dioxide stabilizes at 450 ppm, a level well below that of many climate change forecasts, report chemical oceanographers Long Cao and Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology.

The researchers’ conclusions are based on computer simulations of ocean chemistry stabilized at atmospheric CO2 levels ranging from 280 parts per million 
(pre-industrial levels) to 2000 ppm.

Washington, Sept 23 : It’s not just humans who like cooked meals, for chimps too share the fondness for well-heated grub, according to a new study.

To reach the conclusion, Victoria Wobber and her graduate advisor at Harvard University, Richard Wrangham, along with a third colleague, gave a choice between cooked and raw food to a number of captive apes.

The analysis revealed that chimpanzees preferred cooked carrots, sweet potatoes, and beef over the raw alternatives. However, they did not express any preference in the case of white potatoes and apples.

This, according to scientist, is because both remain relatively unchanged by cooking, reports Live Science.

Washington, Sept 23: Tina Fey has revealed that she hopes Republican
vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin will be out of her life very
soon.

Fey has received much attention for her impression of the Alaska governor on ‘Saturday Night Live.

But now, the ‘30 Rock’ star wants to be done portraying the vice presidential hopeful.

"I want to be done playing this lady Nov. 5, so if anyone could help me
be done playing her on Nov. 5, that would be good for me," FoxNews
quoted Fey, as saying.

Washington, September 23 : Plans are all set for NASA’s Mars Rover Opportunity to head towards a crater more than 20 times larger than the current crater in which it was recently housed.

To reach the crater the rover team calls Endeavour, Opportunity would need to drive approximately 7 miles to the southeast, matching the total distance it has traveled since landing on Mars in early 2004.