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A rock found in Russia’s Koryak Mountains might be older than anything on Earth’s surface, say researchers at Princeton. Researchers believe it may have formed in the early solar system – before the Earth. It contains a baffling crystal of a sort that researchers previously believed never occurred in nature – and could only be [...]
A LONG-HELD secret of plants – what they get up to at night – has been revealed. Scientists had assumed they did very little because, in the darkness, they could not use the sun’s energy to carry out photosynthesis. But recently it has been found that plants transport and lose a surprising amount of water [...]
By comparing the genomes of 29 different mammals, US scientists have discovered the vast majority of the so-called “dark matter” in the human genome that could explain genetic variability in cancer and other diseases. “The discovery of this regulatory network fills in a missing piece in the puzzle of cell regulation and allows us to [...]
Scientists warn of ‘tipping point’ as debris breaks up; legal hurdles as agencies explore nets and probes The amount of junk in space is rising exponentially, with continuous collisions between abandoned equipment, spent rockets and other debris creating ever growing clouds of dangerous fragments, an influential report warned on Thursday. The report, commissioned by NASA, [...]
The lives of nearly a third of Britons could soon be made much easier thanks to the gift of time travel – or so they believe. Thirty per cent of adults across the UK mistakenly believe that time travel is actually possible and not confined to the realms of fictional films or television, research suggests. [...]
Snake Sathish displaying the king cobra which he rescued. DH Photo Ironically when the real snake is found in the vicinity it is done to death by petrified bunch of people. In Gonikoppa lives a herpetologist, who rescued an injured king cobra, treated it for over 60 days and released it to the woods. The [...]
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