‘Invisible’ planet discovered outside our solar system
Astronomers have discovered what they claim is a “hidden planet” outside our solar system, using a 150-year-old technique used to find Neptune. A team at Southwest Research Institute says that though the Saturn-sized planet around star KOI-872-0 is invisible, it must be there because of …
Life bearing planets may be in millions
Researchers led by an Indian origin professor say a few hundred thousand billion free-floating life-bearing Earth-sized planets may exist in the space between stars in the Milky Way. The scientists headed by Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe, Director of the Buckingham Centre for Astrobiology at the University …
Crows can identify familiar human voices
Crows have the ability to recognise familiar human voices and the calls of familiar birds from other species, say researchers. This skill could help the intelligent birds to thrive in urban environments; using vocal cues from their human and avian neighbours to find food or …
Chimpanzees use innovative ways to fool humans
Santino, the chimpanzee, achieved international fame in 2009 for his habit of gathering stones and manufacturing concrete projectiles to throw at visitors from the safety of his enclosure at Furuvik Zoo north of Stockholm. Now, a new study has revealed that Santino’s innovativeness when he …
Animal hair, feathers may offer clues to restore human fingers and toes
While the concept of regenerative medicine is comparatively new, animals are well known to remake their hair and feathers regularly by normal regenerative physiological processes. In their review, researchers have shed light on possible routes that unlock cellular regeneration in general, and the principles by …
World’s smallest known mammoth fossils discovered
Scientists have unearthed what they believe are the fossils of the world’s smallest known dwarf mammoth that stood about one meter high at the shoulders and roamed the Greek island of Crete thousands of years ago. The findings, published in the journal Proceedings of the …
Orangutans at Miami zoo use iPads to communicate
The 8-year-old twins love their iPad. They draw, play games and expand their vocabulary. Their family’s teenagers also like the hand-held computer tablets, too, but the clan’s elders show no interest. The orangutans at Miami’s Jungle Island apparently are just like people when it comes …
Bats and toothed whales have surprisingly similar bio-sonars
Though they evolved separately over millennia in different worlds of darkness, bats and toothed whales use surprisingly similar acoustic behaviour to locate, track, and capture prey using echolocation, the biological equivalent of sonar. Now, thanks to new technology that records what a whale hears as …
NASA’s Spitzer detects light of alien ‘Super-Earth’
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has detected light emanating from a “super-Earth” planet beyond our solar system for the first time. “Spitzer has amazed us yet again,” said Bill Danchi, Spitzer program scientist at NASA Headquarters here. “The spacecraft is pioneering the study of atmospheres of …
Serbia to have world’s largest solar park
The Serbian government has signed a memorandum to build the world’s largest solar park in the southeast European nation at an estimated cost of two billion euros (over $2.5 billion), Xinhua reported quoting the country’s Tanjug news agency. The proposed solar park, spread over 3,000 …
Mystery over origin of domesticated horses solved
Domestic horses originated in the steppes of modern-day Ukraine, southwest Russia and west Kazakhstan, mixing with local wild stocks as they spread throughout Europe and Asia, a new research has indicated. Scientists have remained puzzled over the origin of domesticated horses for several decades until …
How our time on Earth will end
Researchers have forecast the eventual fate that may await our own planet. A group of astrophysicists studying the dust of shattered “corpse planets” in the atmospheres of dying white dwarf stars have highlighted a doomsday scenario, which states that one day in the distant future, …
A Cool Recent Scientific Discovery
A Cool Recent Scientific Discovery World phenomena continues to amaze humans every day and can pique the interests of all kinds of people. Although there’s been legendary findings since the beginning of time, scientists, theologians, and average Joe’s alike are constantly discovering new oddities that …
Largest known crocodile could swallow a human
A crocodile, more than 27 feet in length, large enough to swallow humans, once lived in East Africa, say researchers. A team at the University of Iowa says the new species lived between 2 and 4 million years ago in Kenya. It resembled its living …
Early Americans lived alongside extinct giant beasts
Early Americans lived alongside giant beasts, including mammoths, mastodons and giant ground sloths, in the last Ice Age, say researchers. A team at the University of Florida determined the age of skeletal remains and claimed to have gathered evidence that humans reached the Western Hemisphere …
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