Science News

Nearby galaxies might be the source of cosmic rays

Washington, Nov. 9 : Scientists have traced the rain of high-energy cosmic rays that continually pelt the Earth to the cores of nearby galaxies, which emit prodigious quantities of energy.

Many mammals may have originated in India

Washington, Nov 9 : Many present day plant and animal species might have their origin in India, a new find has suggested.

Women are not biologically built to be chatterboxes

Washington, Nov 9 : A new study has challenged the existing notion that women are biologically built to be chatterboxes, by finding that gender differences in language use appear and disappear, dep

How evolution has shaped fruit fly genomes revealed

London, November 7 : An international research consortium of scientists has carried out a comparison between the genome sequences of 12 closely related fruit fly species, 10 of which were sequenced

Curse of Iceman is just a superstition, say scientists

Rome, Nov 8 (A: Archaeologists have dismissed the so called 'curse of the Iceman' as superstitious nonsense.

Crater created by cosmic object found in Siberian forest

Washington, Nov 8 : Scientists have found a crater made by the cosmic object that caused a massive explosion in the Siberian forest of Russia in 1908.

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