A new research has suggested that the first eyes in the animal kingdom evolved for the purpose of seeking light.Larvae of marine invertebrates - worms, sponges, jellyfish - have the simplest eyes that exist. They consist of no more than two cells: a photoreceptor cell and a pigment cell.
These minimal eyes, called eyespots, resemble the […]
On a misty mountaintop on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, scientists for the first time in more than eight decades have observed a living pygmy tarsier, one of the planet’s smallest and rarest primates.Over a two-month period, the scientists used nets to trap three furry, mouse-sized pygmy tarsiers — two males and one female — […]
Volatile grand champion Asashoryu will not return to the ring until the New Year despite being fit enough to hunt and cook wild animals in the Mongolian mountains. The firebrand yokozuna returned to his native country for treatment to an elbow injury last month and spent 10 days living in a tent and eating wild […]
Steve Austin won loads of accolades as a bionic man in the 70s series ‘The Six Million Dollar Man’, and now scientists claim that a revolutionary brain implant would soon make the fictional character a reality - using the help of the movie.MicroBridge Services, based at Cardiff University, south Wales, is pioneering work in which […]
Using recent NASA satellite data, researchers have estimated more precisely than ever the heat-trapping effect of water in the air, validating the role of water vapor as a critical component of climate change.Andrew Dessler and colleagues from Texas A and M University in College Station confirmed that the heat-amplifying effect of water vapor is potent […]
space walkers of the Endeavour checked the wings of the ship and heat shield at International Space Station.
The shuttle crew also has four spacewalks planned to repair the station’s solar power system.
Engineers thought they saw a 12-to-18-inch strip of insulation fly off from the rear of Endeavour, but images relayed by the astronauts on Saturday […]
Researchers have achieved the longest fuel-cell-powered flight of a radio-controlled aerial vehicle.Students at the University of Michigan and engineers at Ann Arbor-based fuel-cell manufacturer Adaptive Materials Inc. made the achievement.
Their plane, named ‘Endurance’, flew for 10 hours, 15 minutes and four seconds in a flight that lasted from sunrise to sunset on October 30, 2008, […]
Archaeologists have uncovered what they believe to be the largest Greek necropolis in the city of Himera on the island of Sicily, where the ancient version of babies’ beakers has been found.According to the new agency ANSA, although experts have long known about the burial ground, they have only recently understood its importance because of […]
Scientists suggest that neuroprosthetic brain implants may help stroke patients to overcome partial paralysis.The researchers from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis discovered that implants known as brain-computer interfaces (BCI) may be able to detect activity on one side of the brain that is linked to hand and arm movements on the same […]
A group of paleontologists have suggested that the ‘dinosaur dance floor’ found in northern Arizona, US, is actually a dense collection of unusual potholes eroded in the sandstone.The so-called ‘dinosaur dance floor’ was recently found by geologists from the University of Utah in the US, who claimed to have identified an amazing concentration of dinosaur […]