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It’s been a long time now that researchers have been trying to find out about the true nature of pandas when they are out in the wild. In the new research, scientists tracked pandas’ behaviour through GPS devices.

A research by the Michigan State University has provided first in-depth look about the movement of pandas, their behaviour and how they live among the giant pandas. The researchers said they continued to track five wild pandas electronically for more than two years.

Study’s co-author Vanessa Hull and Jindong Zhang said, “Pandas are such an elusive species and it’s very hard to observe them in wild, so we haven’t had a good picture of where they are from one day to the next”.

On Friday, three astronauts were launched from Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for the International Space Station where they will begin an orbital stay for one year.

After six hours of the launch, the Russian Soyuz capsule docked with the orbital outpost. The launch took place from Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 3:42 p.m. ET and it docked with the orbital outpost at 9.34 pm ET.

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko will spend a year on the station. Kelly and Kornienko will undergo tests, including strict medical monitoring for studies, aimed to know how long-term stay in space affects human body.

Fresh data from the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) showed that the dusty gas cloud G2 did not appear to be significantly stretched and is very compact.

There are higher possibilities that the object could be a young star with a massive core that is still accreting material. And the black hole itself has not shown any increase in activity so far.

A supermassive black hole with a mass 4 million times that of the Sun lies at the heart of the Milky Way Galaxy, said scientists.

This black hole is orbited by small group of bright stars and dusty cloud known as G2, which has been tracked during its fall towards the black hole over the last few years, they added.

Conservation officers started an air search on Friday for the nest and possible young eaglet of a bald eagle that died after being shot in southern Indiana.

As per officials the injured eagle was found on March 19 in northwestern Dubois County. The eagle died when it was transferred to the Indiana Raptor Center in Nashville.

X-ray showed bullet fragments in eagle, which is believed to have been a male. Further examination revealed that the eagle had a bare spot on its abdomen called a brood patch that occurs when nesting eagles sit on eggs to warm them while their mate is hunting for food.

Dive-boat operator Chris Fallows is considered to be the first person who has seen Cape fur seals, following killing and eating the internal organs of blue sharks. He saw this activity more than 10 years ago.

Yet again in 2012, he came across the same incident, but this time he was lucky to have an underwater camera to capture the action. Fallows along with his colleagues even conducted a study explaining this unusual behaviour.

The researchers explained that seals and sharks are almost of the same size. Another similarity between them is that they tend to feed on smaller forms of marine life. There could be instances where Cape fur seals could attack shark and the situation could be explained as the hunter becomes the hunted.

A new generation of robotic insects will be showcased by Festo. Bionic ants and butterflies have been created on a 3D printer.

The creation links German electronics organization Festo to universities, institutes, improvement organizations and private inventors, as efforts are being made to find novel solutions and to test new technologies and approaches.

BionicANT is said to have all the physical traits of an ant and is more than five inches long and weighs more than one ounce. As mentioned above, the artificial ant has been designed on a 3D printer. Every artificial ant has features like a video camera, which acts as a sense of sight for the robotic insects.