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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.
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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.
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When viewed with the human eye giant asteroid Vesta, looks quite unspectacular color-wise.
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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: Thursday, October 24, 2013, 14:21
ESA`s Planck space telescope has been switched off after nearly 4.5 years soaking up the relic radiation from the Big Bang and studying the evolution of stars and galaxies throughout the history of the Universe.
Last Updated: Wednesday, October 9, 2013, 21:08
European `big bang` space telescope, Planck, will be turned off in two weeks` time, as it has completed its mission.
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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: Friday, July 26, 2013, 23:34
Observations from the Planck spacecraft has helped create the most detailed map of the early universe.
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.
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