Scientists have discovered a carnivorous plant that grows prey-trapping contraptions underground, feeding off subterranean creatures such as worms, larvae and beetles. The newly found species of pitcher plant was unearthed in the Indonesian province of North Kalimantan, on the island of Borneo. Like other pitcher plants, Nepenthes pudica has modified leaves, known as pitfall traps or pitchers, that its prey fall into before being consumed. (One species is so large it can trap rats). No other species of pitcher plant known to science catches its prey underground. The plant forms specialized underground shoots with small, white, chlorophyll-free leaves, the researchers said. The pitchers are much larger than the leaves and have a reddish color. "This species places its up-to-11-cm-long (4.3-inch-long) pitchers underground, where they are formed in cavities or directly in the soil and trap animals living underground, usually ants, mites and beetles," said lead study author Marti...

 young Nigerian innovator Yusuf Shamsudeen produces a water-powered stove to help the populace deal with the increasing cost of gas and oil. The product could also help deal with climate concerns. He spoke to DW about the product, explaining the science behind it. “When the air goes into the pressure bank which is an empty tank, the air expands and it is released at a very high pressure; so the force at which that air comes out and goes into the chemical container excites the chemical compounds to react and thus, they give a gas which goes into the container, reacts and gives a flammable gas at the burner,” Yusuf said. This is not the first invention from Nigeria. Before Yusuf, a 67-year-old man, Hadi Usman made this same invention and promised to train a lot of people, especially the younger generation to take over. In a viral video shared by PRNigeria, Hadi demonstrated the stove. He practically pumped air into a water container which then transfers a content through tubes to the...

A 12-year-old British-Nigerian kid, Chika Ofili has emerged as one of the youngest Mathematics scholars in the world after discovering a new mathematical formula. Chika Ofili who was born in London, the United Kingdom to a Nigerian parent made the discovery of a formula that solves several division problems swiftly. He made the discovery while completing a homework assignment given to him by his teacher. Chika attended the Westminster Under School in London and his Mathematics teacher, Mary Ellis gave him a book called “First Steps for Problem Solvers” while on break. According to Mary, the book contained several division problems that required him to determine if various numbers are divisible by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 or 9 before completing the full problem, but his math book didn’t contain a memorable test for dividing by 7. In Chika’s quest to solve the division challenges, he created a new method that consists of taking the last digit of any whole number, multiplying it by 5 and then ...