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Food sharing promotes social bonding in chimpanzees, leading them to form cooperative relationships, a new study has found.
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Astronomers have discovered an exoplanet orbiting a solar twin 2500 light-years away, according to a new study.
Last Updated: Tuesday, January 7, 2014, 10:20
Scientists have developed a semi-analytical model, which could help resolve the puzzling formation of this exotic triple-star system.
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Researchers have found a caterpillar that has a unique defence mechanism against some of their predators such as wolf spiders.
Last Updated: Wednesday, December 18, 2013, 12:25
When viewed with the human eye giant asteroid Vesta, looks quite unspectacular color-wise.
Last Updated: Wednesday, November 20, 2013, 11:59
One or more fragments could have gotten detached from comet ISON in the past days, as two wing-shaped features in the comet`s atmosphere suggest.
Last Updated: Saturday, September 7, 2013, 13:35
A new research has observed that chimpanzees, who are orphaned, frequently engaged in social play, but their play bouts were much shorter and resulted in aggression more often.
Last Updated: Tuesday, August 13, 2013, 11:20
Researchers have discovered Neanderthal bone tools which were excavated at two neighboring Paleolithic sites in southwest France.
Last Updated: Thursday, July 18, 2013, 10:51
Recent observations of the galactic center have revealed that parts of the in-falling gas cloud, which was detected in 2011, have already swung past the black hole at the heart of our Milky Way.
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.
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