An identical triplets were born to Allison Penn who currently employed as an education specialist at North Shore University Hospital on Long Island, USA — an event so rare it might happen 1 in 200 million births according to an obstetrician estimate.

Tom and Allison Penn wanted a baby more than anything. Now they have three, all alike. The triplets, Logan, Eli and Collin Penn, born last Wednesday.

Miracle Babies

The babies, developed from a single egg and placenta, were given only a 30% chance of all three surviving by the first obstetrician consulted by the Patchogue, N.Y., couple, said Tom Penn, who called them “miracle babies.”

The triplets, carried to 35 weeks and weighing 4 pounds, 12 ounces (Logan); 4 pounds (Eli); and 4 pounds, 11 ounces (Collin) at birth, went home Sunday.

If you are having trouble in remembering the newly assigned 11 planets, consider the handy way created by Maryn Smith, a fourth-grader.

Maryn Smith (age 10) , the winner of the National Geographic planetary mnemonic contest, has created a handy way to remember the plants with the phrase:

“My very exciting magic carpet just sailed under nine palace elephants.”

The 11 recognized planets are

1. Mercury
2. Venus
3. Earth
4. Mars
5. Ceres
6. Jupiter
7. Saturn
8. Uranus
9. Neptune
10. Pluto
11. Eris.

Ceres, Pluto and Eris are considered dwarf planets.

Maryn Smith and the winning mnemonic will be featured in National Geographic book about the planets, 11 Planets: “A New View of the Solar System“.

Scientists have developed the mother of all laser beams — one that has focussed power equal to all the sunlight heading Earth’s way.

Sciencedaily reported that, this newly created record-setting beam ,created by the Researchers at the University of Michigan ,measures 20 billion trillion watts per square centimetre.

The laser contains 300 terawatts of power, or 300 times the capacity of the entire US electricity grid, and its power is concentrated in a 1.3-micron speck — about one-100th the diameter of a human hair.

A beam like this cannot stand for long.This one lasted just 30 femtoseconds. A femtosecond is a millionth of a billionth of a second, the researchers said in the online edition of the journal Optics Express.

The team managed to get such high power by putting a moderate amount of energy into a very, very short time period.

In addition to medical uses, intense laser beams like these could help researchers explore new frontiers in science.

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have found that kids exhibit goal-oriented behaviour as early as the age of 3.

The study found that children around the age of 3, start to shape their behaviour in response to the outcomes they’ve come to expect.

The researchers said that although adults take goal-directed action for granted, it’s not in us from birth but rather emerges in a normal developmental timeline that appears to emerge roughly between the ages of 2 and 3 years.

“One possible interpretation is that the period between 2 and 3 years of age brings about a transition in behavioural control from stimulus-outcome learning to fully intentional goal-directed action,” the researchers said.

At age 3, kids can pursue specific goals even if they cannot directly sense those goals.