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Kepler spacecraft finds”closest twin to Earth” outside of our solar system
NEW YORK: The latest discovery comes only a week after Nasa announced that its Kepler spacecraft had found the "closest...
Human remains of earliest colonial leaders found in Jamestown
WASHINGTON: Archaeologists have uncovered human remains of some of the earliest leaders of the English colony that would become America,...
Butterfly-inspired technique can help to make solar energy cheaper
LONDON: Mimicking the v-shaped posture adopted by a butterfly species to heat up its flight muscles before take-off, the amount...
Scientists able to direct path of laboratory mice with a combination of drugs, lights
LONDON: Scientists have successfully altered the neural networks of laboratory mice using a wireless controller; allowing them to study the...
Presence of building blocks of life on comet
CANADA: The Comet 67P/Churyumov¬-Gerasimenko packs some of the key building blocks of life including some that play a key role...
Scientists create tiny insect -inspire robots that can jump over water
NEW YORK: Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering has a history of creating tiny, insect-inspired robots, and its latest...
Well sleep makes your mind alert
EUROPE: If you've had a good night's sleep, you are mentally more alert and your memory works more reliably. During...
Starvation early in life can alter an organism for coming generations
BRENT: Starvation early in life can alter an organism for generations to come, according to a new study in roundworms....
Vitamin B3 may have been delivered from space
HONG KONG: The results of laboratory experiments involving Vitamin B3 by a team of NASA researchers support a theory that...
NASA’s New Horizons detect haze, flowing ice on Pluto
PARIS: “It’s very hard not to call an object with this level of complexity in its geology, and such complex...
Secrets of hormone receptors uncover
LONDON: Many hormones and neurotransmitters work by binding to receptors on a cell's exterior surface. This activates receptors causing them...
InSight lander will touchdown on Red planet in 2016
MALI: Space travel is a constant exercise in forward planning, with mission control thinking years and sometimes decades in advance....
Researches find new method that can convert cyanate into ammonium, carbon dioxide
FRANCE: An international team of researches has found an example of a nitrite oxidizing organism that can convert cyanate into...
Exciting new discovery helps to explore secrets of universe
LONDON: IT IS being hailed as an “exciting” new discovery that will help to unlock more secrets of the universe....
Aurora light spotted outside our solar system for 1st time
NEW YORK: An aurora has been spotted outside our Solar System for the first time, scientists report. An international team...
Hubble Space Telescope captures dying star’s final moments
WASHINGTON: A dying star's final moments are captured in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The death throes...
NASA reveals strange shaped asteroid that passed just 4.5m miles from Earth
CANADA: NASA scientists have used two giant, Earth-based radio telescopes to bounce radar signals off a passing asteroid and produce...
Brown star hosts powerful auroras near magnetic poles
CANADA: In a finding that shows that brown dwarfs, often referred to as failed stars, have more in common with...
NASA captures image of peanut-shaped asteroid
PARIS: NASA has captured images of a peanut-shaped asteroid as it made its closest approach to Earth last weekend.About 4.6...
New map of milky way provides 1st evdence of migration of stars in our galaxy
NEW YORK: Nearly a third of the stars in our own galaxy have dramatically changed their orbits. This is according...
