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Goats are intelligent animals after all

Last Updated: Wednesday, March 26, 2014, 20:44

Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have found that goats learn how to solve complicated tasks quickly and can recall how to perform them for at least 10 months.

75 million-year-old giant turtle`s bone from fossil discoveries assembled

Last Updated: Wednesday, March 26, 2014, 20:38

Paleontologists have assembled a giant turtle`s bone from fossil discoveries made centuries apart.

50 mn-year-old fossil plant probed

Last Updated: Wednesday, March 26, 2014, 19:46

In a first, scientists have investigated the chemistry of 50 million-year-old fossil plant by bombarding the fossils with X-rays brighter than a million suns - produced by synchrotron particle accelerators.

700-year-old excreta still smells pungent!

Last Updated: Wednesday, March 26, 2014, 19:29

Turn your nose up first. The 700-year-old barrels found at an archaeological site in Odense on the island of Funen in Denmark has human excreta intact in “excellent condition”.

X-rays film inside live insects in 3-D

Last Updated: Wednesday, March 26, 2014, 18:18

Scientists have used a particle accelerator to obtain high-speed 3D X-ray visualisations of the flight muscles of flies.

Art masterpieces helping map pollution levels in Earth`s past atmosphere

Last Updated: Wednesday, March 26, 2014, 17:34

Researchers have shown the colours of sunsets painted by famous artists can be used to estimate pollution levels in the Earth `s past atmosphere.

Causes, consequences of global climate warming 56 mn years ago revealed

Last Updated: Wednesday, March 26, 2014, 17:32

Researchers are studying the causes and consequences of global climate warming that took place 56 million years ago.

Inbreeding led to extinction of woolly mammoth: Study

Inbreeding led to extinction of woolly mammoth: Study

Last Updated: Wednesday, March 26, 2014, 13:35

Researchers have suggested that neck ribs in woolly mammoths can provide clues about their decline and eventual extinction.

Mysterious flying saucer-shaped object spotted hovering over UK college

Last Updated: Wednesday, March 26, 2014, 13:31

A woman in UK has revealed that she spotted a flying saucer-shaped object hovering over a nearby college on a live weather webcam feed.

Greenpeace moves EC for annulment of GM crop field trials

Last Updated: Tuesday, March 25, 2014, 22:14

Environmental group Greenpeace today moved the Election Commission, seeking annulment of the GEAC decision to revalidate the field trials for ten varieties of genetically modified (GM) food crops.