Rarest rock discovered from India

October 3rd, 2009 LONDON - Archaeologists have discovered Stonehenge's 'little sister', dubbed 'Bluehenge', which is located a mile away from Britain's famous circle of prehistoric standing stones. According to a report in the Telegraph, the new circle unearthed in secret over the summer, is one of the most important prehistoric finds in decades.

October 1st, 2009 WASHINGTON - A simulation developed by scientists at Washington University in St. Louis has suggested that the atmosphere of COROT-7b, an exoplanet discovered last February by the COROT space telescope, is made up of the ingredients of rocks, which results in a rain of pebbles on the surface of the planet.

August 31st, 2009 LAHORE - Slain Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto had asked the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) to be ready for attacking India's nuclear facilities, when reports surfaced in 1990 that US, Israel and India were planning to strike Pakistan's nuclear establishments. In an interview with a private television channel, former Chief of Army Staff Mirza Aslam Beg revealed that Bhutto had directed the PAF to prepare itself for attacking India.

August 29th, 2009 LONDON - A piece of rock from the moon which Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin had gifted to Holland is claimed to be fake. Curators at Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum say that the "lunar rock", valued at 308,000 pounds, is in fact just a petrified wood.

August 29th, 2009 LONDON - A new analysis has suggested that a rock found on Mars in 1996, which was claimed by scientists to host life, has minerals which could have only been formed in a habitable environment. Researchers led by David McKay of NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, caused a sensation 13 years ago when they proposed that a chunk of Mars rock found in Antarctica, called ALH 84001, contained possible signs of past life on the Red Planet, including complex carbon-based molecules and some microscopic objects shaped like bacteria.

August 24th, 2009 SOFIA - Archaeologists in Bulgaria have discovered a unique medieval Byzantine seal at the site of the Princely Monastery near the Eastern city of Varna, dating back to the 10th century. According to a report by the Sofia News Agency, the seal is dated back to the 10th century and belonged to the Byzantine dignitary Antonius, who was an imperial protospatario in Constantinople.

August 24th, 2009 WASHINGTON - In a new study, a team of archaeologists has discovered that the early man, intentionally or unintentionally, harmed and altered the environment. For example, aboriginal people in Australia burned huge areas to change the landscape so they could hunt animals more easily.

August 21st, 2009 LONDON - A 6-year-old Brit boy reportedly found a piece of rock from space when he went to collect eggs from his garden hens. Josh Chapple was stunned to find the egg-shaped shiny black lump of rock.

August 17th, 2009 SYDNEY - Scientists have determined that global warming has cut the average snow cover at Australia's highest altitude snow course, Spencer's Creek in the Snowy Mountains, by 30 per cent to 40 per cent in the last 50 years. s a result, unlike skiers, specialized plants that have learnt to survive in the Australian highlands don't have the option of seeking out higher ground and may face extinction, Associate Professor Catherine Pickering of Griffith University, told www.news.com.au.

August 3rd, 2009 LONDON - Two newly discovered musical pieces created by Mozart in 1773-1780 were recently played in his native Austrian city, Salzburg. The piano pieces have been a part of the International Mozarteum Foundation for long, but they were only recently identified as compositions by Mozart.

July 29th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A new research has found evidence for what may be the world's first catering service, on a southwestern Colorado mountain ridge a thousand years ago. New findings from the Chimney Rock archaeological site near Pagosa Springs, Colorado, suggests that elite priests living in a spectacular spiritual outpost built high on the southwestern Colorado mountain ridge a thousand years ago likely had their meals catered by commoners living in the valley below.

July 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Archaeologists have recently discovered the site of a Five Dynasties palace in Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong Province. As the seat of the Western Han Nanyue Kingdom and the Five Dynasties South Han Kingdom, the site has been the center of Guangzhou for some 2000 years.

June 19th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Scientists have discovered the presence of a natural deep earth pump that is a crucial element in the formation of ore deposits and earthquakes. The process, called creep cavitation, involves fluid being pumped through pores in deformed rock in mid-crustal sheer zones, which are approximately 15 km below the Earth's surface.

May 28th, 2009 SYDNEY - In a new study, researchers have found ancient rock art depicting the extinct marsupial lion found in the Kimberly region of Western Australia, which hints at what the extinct beasts may have looked like, and suggests that they co-exited with early Australians. The Marsupial Lion is an extinct species of a carnivorous marsupial mammal that lived in Australia from the early to the late Pleistocene (1,600,000-46,000 years ago).

April 29th, 2009 Dino-mite: Utah quarry gets explosive treatmentSALT LAKE CITY — Sometimes the delicate tools of dinosaur diggers just don't cut it. Thwarted since 2007 by layers of rock-hard sandstone, researchers at one of Dinosaur National Monument's most important quarries turned to something more potent than brushes and hammers: explosives.