According to a renowned psychologist, today, Monday is the gloomiest day of the year. According to Cliff Arnall, an expert in depression, he used a mathematical formula in determining today as Blue Monday.

Hungarian scientist's claim they have come up with a computer program, which would enable people to understand dog, barks. The group o scientists said the software is able to decode dog's barks, howls, yaps and growls.

The adage "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me" is not true, according to a new book on insults. In the real world, words do have significant effects, says University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) professor of humanities Jerome Neu in his new book, "Sticks and Stones: The Philosophy of Insults" (Oxford University Press, 2008).

Two professors from the New York University reveal the possibility of putting up a museum celebrating the work and contributions of the city's sanitation workers. Profs. Robin Nagle and Haidy Geismar are pushing for the museum, which they plan to put up after the already-displayed exhibit on the history of the Sanitation Department.

A cloned pig bioengineered by Chinese scientists to glow fluorescent green when exposed to ultraviolet light has produced two piglets that also glow in the same way. Liu Zhonghua, a professor overseeing the breeding program of cloned and genetically-altered pigs at Northeast Agricultural University in China's Heilongjiang Province, reported the birth of the special piglets in the school's website on Tuesday. The breeding program is aimed at developing technology to produce pigs whose organs will be transplanted to humans.