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Undergraduate students taking classes for non-astronomy majors at the University of Maryland have made a rare discovery- a pair of binary asteroids that orbit and eclipse each other.
Last Updated: Wednesday, January 1, 2014, 16:20
Mangrove trees, which are highly sensitive to cold, have expanded enormously on the Atlantic coast of Florida as the frequency of frosts has diminished, says a study.
Last Updated: Thursday, December 5, 2013, 21:11
A new study has suggested that mating with more than one male increases reproductive success for female prairie dogs, despite an increase in risks.
Last Updated: Friday, November 22, 2013, 11:37
Ghostly sub-atomic particles called neutrinos in outer space have been glimpsed from an icy observatory in Antarctica, offering a rare new view of the universe, scientists said Thursday.
Last Updated: Saturday, November 16, 2013, 00:44
A high-resolution global map of forest extent, loss and gain has been developed the help of Google Earth by a group of scientists.
Last Updated: Friday, October 18, 2013, 00:28
Scientists from the University of Maryland and Columbia University have designed a new soil testing kit for the benefit of the farmers in developing countries.
Last Updated: Saturday, September 21, 2013, 08:31
The US space agency has announced an end to its eight-year Deep Impact mission that included an unprecedented impact, comet flybys and the return of approximately 500,000 images of celestial objects.
Last Updated: Saturday, August 31, 2013, 08:30
Whooping cranes learn how to migrate by following elders in their midst, suggesting that social influence has a larger bearing than genetics on the birds` behavior, scientists said.
Last Updated: Thursday, July 25, 2013, 15:13
A new study has tried to find out how there are far fewer galaxies at the most massive end of the galactic scale than expected, which scientists have long sought to explain.
Last Updated: Friday, June 7, 2013, 18:25
The US Army has developed a realistic robot bird that has even tricked real flocks and hawks to attack it midair, making it a potential unsuspecting future war agent.
Last Updated: Friday, June 7, 2013, 14:55
A robotic bird created for the US Army for being used as a miniature spy drone is so convincing that it has been attacked by hawks and eagles.
Last Updated: Saturday, April 20, 2013, 21:46
Scientists have found significant differences between the rhythms in a part of the brain used in navigation in rats and bats.
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