Pollution lower IQ

Children who live in heavily polluted air have lower IQs and score worse on other tests of intelligence and memory than children who breathe cleaner air, according to the new study.

Rare Fossilized Cypress Trees

Hungarian scientists have discovered a group of fossilized swamp trees or Taxodium trees preserved in original position in a open cast-lignite mine in the north-eastern village of Bukkabrany as if they were sections cut from a piece of living wood. The trunks of the trees preserved in remarkable condition, it did not turn into stone, standing at 4-6 metters tall and 1.5-3 meters in diameter just as they were in the late Miocene geological period 8 million years. ago when the Carpathian basin - present day Hungary - was a freshwater lake surrounded by swamps