LONDON (TIP): Researchers have discovered a new gene which they say helps explain how humans evolved from chimpanzees . The gene, called miR-941 , is carried only by humans and it appeared after humans evolved […]
NEW YORK: Humans can sniff fear and disgust, and the emotions are contagious, a new study has found, suggesting we communicate via smell just like other animals. “These findings are contrary to the commonly accepted […]
LONDON (TIP): A 1,400-year-old ‘vampire’ skeleton with metal spikes through its shoulders, heart and ankles, has been discovered in Britain, a new report has claimed. The skeleton dating from 550-700 AD found buried in the […]
MUMBAI (TIP): A total solar eclipse will envelop parts of the US, Australia and New Zealand on Diwali day. Festivities in India will continue as usual given that the celestial event will not be visible […]
LONDON (TIP): A UK man has been fitted with a ‘Terminator-like’ carbon fibre mechanical hand which he can control with movements in his upper arm. Nigel Ackland, 53, from Royston, Cambridgeshire lost his arm in […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Now, Superman knows where exactly he came from. A noted astrophysicist claimed to have determined the actual location of Superman’s fictional home planet — Krypton. Krypton is found 27.1 lightyears from Earth, […]
LONDON (TIP): Researchers have developed a tiny camera that can be clipped to clothes or worn on a necklace, and takes a picture every 30 seconds, allowing users to record their daily lives. The camera, […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): New vaccines being developed by scientists from the School of Biological Sciences at Royal Holloway may eliminate the need for needles as they can be delivered via a nasal spray, or as on […]
Insignificant in visible light, halo stars are big in the infrared background. When the known galaxies and stars in the right panel are subtracted, what remains is the cosmic infrared background shown at left. Astronomers […]
LONDON (TIP): Nasa’s Curiosity rover on Mars is apparently littering on the Red planet. Pictures beamed back by the rover show a bright object lying in the Martian dirt, and a closer look suggests the […]
LONDON (TIP): Astronomers have discovered a new intriguing exoplanet about the mass of the Earth, orbiting a star in the Alpha Centauri star system – the nearest to our planet. It is also the lightest […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): A new research by UC Davis researchers has discovered that the key chemical process that corrects for potential visual errors in low-light conditions. Understanding this fundamental step could lead to new treatments for […]
Anew theory put forward by Harvard scientists suggests the moon was once part of the earth that spun off after a giant collision with another body. In a paper published on Wednesday in the journal […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): NASA’s Curiosity rover has spotted a bright object in the red soil of Mars which could have a possible impact on its sampling activity. The object was spotted just as Curiosity was using […]
LONDON (TIP): Cambridge researchers, led by an Indian-origin scientist, have discovered a new population of enormous, rapidly growing super-massive black holes ever seen in the early Universe. The black holes were previously undetected because they […]
LONDON (TIP): Researchers have discovered that the common ancestor of modern mammals was like a small monkey in size and not tiny and shrew-like as previously thought. Fossils indicate that some larger mammals shared the […]
HOUSTON (TIP): Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams will soon enjoy delicious ‘chocolate-vanilla swirl’ on board International Space Station (ISS) after Nasa’s first contracted commercial cargo capsule was rocketed into orbit to resupply the orbiting laboratory. SpaceX’s […]
MELBOURNE (TIP): In an unexpected finding, astronomers have discovered two dense black holes inside an ancient cluster of stars in the Milky Way. The two black holes in the globular cluster M22 are about 10 […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Nasa has made the most precise measurement yet of the Hubble constant, the rate at which our universe is expanding. The Hubble constant is named after the astronomer Edwin P Hubble, who astonished […]
LONDON (TIP): Researchers have developed a new ‘storm-proof ‘ unflappable umbrella which they say can withstand storms as strong as blowing at 113 kph. Unlike traditional umbrellas that turn inside out by gusts of only […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Scientists have discovered a bacteria that has the ability to withstand incredible amounts of toxicity and can be the key to creating 24-carat gold. Researchers from the Michigan State University have found that […]
LONDON (TIP): French scientists have discovered that venom from one of the world’s deadliest snakes, Black Mamba can be used to make a painkiller as powerful as morphine, but without most of the side-effects. Researchers […]
LONDON (TIP): The brainchild of an India-born chef for top cyclists, a new ‘life saver’ bike helmet that connects with your phone and alerts emergency services in case of an accident is set to hit […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Scientists have proposed to build the first ever 4-D space-time crystal clock that they claim will keep accurate time forever, even after the heat-death of the universe. This is the “wow” factor behind […]
CHICAGO (TIP): The brain that revolutionized physics now can be downloaded as an app for $9.99. But it won’t help you win at Angry Birds. While Albert Einstein’s genius isn’t included, an exclusive iPad application […]
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