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CHAND: On Thursday, the US Fish and Wildlife Service announced that some of the most charming reptile species of California...

Crayfishes species threatened by mountaintop-removal mining in West Virginia

ELY: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering naming two crayfish species found in southern West Virginia as endangered....

Israeli scientists solve mystery behind moon’s origin

HAIFA: Scientists from Technion Institute of Technology in Haifa conduct study that provides answer to why earth and moon are...

65m yrs old Mosasaur giant lizard gives birth in open Ocean

CANADA: A group of researchers have uncovered some of the interesting facts about the reproduction process of Mosasaurs, the giant...

Baby turtles always swim against the flow, researchers say

NEW YORK: Scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the University of Central Florida have installed a small...

Building blocks for life discovered in distant star system

LONDON: For the first time, astronomers have detected the presence of complex organic molecules, the building blocks of life, in...

SpaceX will attempt historical landing during sixth resupply mission to International Space Station

WASHINGTON: Watch the live stream here as SpaceX launches its sixth resupply mission to the International Space Station and -...

Moon formed much later than thought but new questions arise

CANADA: Scientists think that the Moon may have been formed by the collision between an object and the Earth, the...

Mars has giant frozen water glaciers under its surface of dust

PARIS: Mars has distinct polar ice caps, but Mars also has belts of glaciers at its central latitudes in both...

‘Monster’ gamma-ray burst brightest cosmic explosion ever witnessed

FRANCE: Rare gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are flashes of gamma rays associated with energetic explosions and only happens when enormously high-mass...

Space expert’s plans to send a group of humans to orbit red planet by yrs 2033

LONDON: The Planetary Society, the world’s largest non-governmental organization (NGO) dedicated to promoting space exploration, announced this week that it...

Our sun was a late bloomer in Milky Way star nursery

WASHINGTON: The Milky Way’s star-birthing frenzy peaked 10 billion years ago, but our Sun was a late boomer, not forming...

4 year old kid uncovers rare dinosaur bones in Texas

EALING: Not each and every kid can say he created the discovery of a lifetime before he began kindergarten. Wylie...

Graphene looking promising for future spintronic devices

HONG KONG: Latest discovery involving graphene is a promising development for spintronics which could ultimately pave way for faster and...

NASA astronaut’s POV GoPro footage shows what a spacewalk is like

NEW YORK: From sending the Curiosity Rover to Mars, to launchinga unique study involving identical twin astronauts, NASA has done...

Just like our planet earth, sun also experiences variation of seasons, study

BRENT: Just like our planet earth, the sun also experiences a variation of seasons, as per a study conducted by...

SpaceX will attempt historical landing during sixth resupply mission to ISS

WASHINGTON: Watch the live stream here as SpaceX launches its sixth resupply mission to the International Space Station and -...

Study shows tyrannosaurs were violent cannibals

FRANCE: Remains of a mutilated dinosaur victim provide strong evidence that T rex and his kin were violent animals and...

What an honour for Pakistan: Asteroid named after youngest ever Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai

Pakistan’s Malala Yousafzai, the youngest ever Nobel laureate, now has an asteroid named in her honor. A NASA astrophysicist, who...

Most recent development is a series of robotic arms that Japan’s Namiki Laboratory designed for sword combat