Washington, Mar. 25: In quite a departure from his first press conference on February 9, President Barack Obama avoided taking questions from the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal or USA Today, and according to experts, this may not sit well with the already insecure newspaper industry.

Obama opened things up to a wider variety of outlets, including Spanish-language television, a military news outlet, and black-oriented media. It''s another example of the White House going over the typical Washington press corps "filter."

Washington, Mar. 25: Republican Senator John McCain''s daughter, Meghan has revealed that she is a great fan of President Barack Obama and his policies.

She told CNN''s "Larry King Live" Tuesday night, that her support was for her father''s campaign opponent, President Obama.

"He''s our president and when the election was over and when President Obama won, all negative feelings were gone," McCain said on the CNN show. "I support the president."

Washington, March 25 : A new study has indicated that the Black Sea, the world's largest dead zone that has high concentrations of a poisonous gas, may be chock-full of life-sustaining energy.

The Black Sea, an isolated inland sea in Eastern Europe, has been devoid of life for decades due to pollution carried by rivers.

The influx of toxic waste from 17 European countries has contributed to a decline in oxygen in the water. This in turn has created high concentrations of hydrogen sulfide gas in the sea.

Washington, Mar 25: Scientists at University at Buffalo (UB) have developed a nanoparticle that can silence a gene that triggers drug addiction.

Boffins in UB''s Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics and UB''s Department of Medicine have developed a stable nanoparticle that delivers short RNA molecules in the brain to "silence" or turn off a gene that plays a critical role in many kinds of drug addiction.

Washington, Mar 25: Researchers have found a brain region which predicts choices before we even know what they are.

The finding may explain why people re-evaluate options after making decisions.

Researchers in the March 25 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience have reported that the activity in one brain structure can predict people''s preferences.