Last Updated: Tuesday, July 2, 2013, 10:47
NASA`s Fermi space telescope has updated its catalogue of the Universe`s most violent neighbourhoods, listing the sources of the highest-energy gamma rays ever observed.
Last Updated: Friday, June 28, 2013, 14:21
Researchers conducted the most expensive and most elaborate computer simulations so far to study the formation of neutron stars at the center of collapsing stars with unprecedented accuracy.
Last Updated: Thursday, May 23, 2013, 14:40
For most animal species, moving objects play a major role in the processing of sensory impressions in the brain, as they often signal the presence of a welcome prey or an imminent threat.
Last Updated: Friday, April 26, 2013, 08:57
Some 7,000 light years away, Einstein`s theory of general relativity has stood up to its most intense test yet, scientists said on Thursday.
Last Updated: Friday, April 19, 2013, 13:40
A University of Washington physicist has recreated sound of the Big Bang in high fidelity using cosmic microwave data.
Last Updated: Thursday, April 11, 2013, 14:46
Chimpanzees are aware that trees of certain species produce fruit simultaneously and use this botanical knowledge during their daily search for fruit, according to a new study.
Last Updated: Sunday, March 24, 2013, 11:50
The most-detailed map of the universe created through the observations made by Planck space telescope has an Indian element to it.
Last Updated: Thursday, March 21, 2013, 17:32
Planck was designed to map these fluctuations across the whole sky with greater resolution and sensitivity than ever before.
Last Updated: Wednesday, March 20, 2013, 16:25
German scientists have completed the first high-quality sequencing of a Neanderthal genome, and made it freely available online to the scientific community.
Last Updated: Friday, January 25, 2013, 13:24
Scientists have discovered that in chimpanzees love hormone oxytocin plays a key role in maintaining social relations with both kin and strangers.
Last Updated: Wednesday, January 23, 2013, 09:04
DNA analysis has found that ancient humans living some 40,000 years ago in the area near Beijing were likely related to many present-day Asians and Native Americans.
Last Updated: Saturday, January 12, 2013, 16:14
Birds sing at a higher pitch to differentiate it from the low-frequency sound of traffic to make themselves better heard in the city noise by increasing the volume of their song that by raising its frequency.
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