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Nearly 10,000 years back more than 27 members of a tribe were killed and the event was earliest proof of warfare between stone-age hunter-gatherers. A group of scientists from Cambridge University discovered the fossilized remnants of the victims, preserved in the sediment of a marshy pool that dried up thousands of years back.

Published on Wednesday in the journal Nature, the discovery was made in 2012 at Nataruk, a place located at a distance of 30km from Lake Turkana in northern Kenya’s Rift Valley. It is the earliest proof of brutal conflict between nomadic hunter-gatherer groups.

The Mauna Kea observatories, the 50-year-old independent astronomical research facilities on the summit of Mauna Kea, are giving space enthusiasts an opportunity through tours to learn how it writes unforgettable history of the universe.

The observatories and the Imiloa Astronomy Center have already kicked off the first Kamaaina Observatory Experience tour from Saturday, January 16. The new program has been established especially for people of Hawaii. During these free tours, the public will be able to see the world's most powerful telescopes.

Do you know why Zebras have stripes? If you think the distinctive black-and-white markings provide camouflage to the animal, then it is time to change the longstanding hypothesis. Contrary to the old notions, a new study published in journal PLOS ONE has suggested that the stripes on a zebra’s body are not some kind of camouflaging protection against predators.

The study has provided sufficient proofs to reject the century-old hypothesis debated by renowned naturalists Alfred Russell Wallace and Charles Darwin, said Tim Caro, an author of the new research and a professor of wildlife biology at the University of California, Davis.

You may have seen or heard of how modern-day robots are making thing easy for us. But in the process, have you ever realized that these machines are endangering our jobs? Today, the biggest question is: How’s our future with robots and how these automatons will threaten mankind in the coming time?

A survey of 15 economies around the globe by the World Economic Forum (WEF) suggested that robots and artificial intelligence (AI) will seize about 5.1 millions human jobs in next five years. The WEF’s report on the world’s 65% workforce has provided telltale sign of AI taking a lead over mankind by 2020.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has amazed everyone with his latest spatial achievement. His space transport company Blue Origin has, for the second time, completed a successful launch of an unmanned sub-orbital rocket, which landed in Texas on Friday after reaching a height of 63 miles over the Earth.

In a blog on Blue Origin’s website, Bezos wrote that the launch was another step forward towards developing reusable rockets that may one day make it possible to have “millions of people living and working in space”.

Another young CEO who has been vying in solar project is Tesla Motors’ CEO Elon Musk (through his company SpaceX) and with the latest launch, the rivalry between Bezos' Blue Origin and SpaceX has just entered another sphere.

The Namib Desert beetle that is found in the deserts of the southwestern Africa has stimulated a scientific advancement towards preventing the formation of frost on the surfaces of airplanes, coils and windshields. The areas in which these beetles live have scarcity of water. A new technique, which has been found by a team of scientists at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute (Virginia Tech), is based on the amalgamation of a certain pattern superimposed on the upper side of a waterproof surface. The technique is inspired by the shell of the beetle.