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About four years ago, three skeletons were found during a construction project on the Caribbean island of St. Martin. According to reports, the skeletons were of two male and one female. The three individuals were believed to have been slaves during the 17th century when the region was ruled by the Dutch and French.

Now, researchers have examined the bones using a new genetic technique. According to the researchers, the study of bones could provide information about the slaves' ethnicity.

Scientists have recently spotted a new dwarf galaxy which is orbiting the Milky Way. But physicists at Carnegie Mellon, Brown and Cambridge Universities after researching about the dwarf galaxy revealed that the galaxy looks like it is radiating gamma rays.

According to scientists they found the galaxy, called Reticulum 2, by studying the data collected during the Dark Energy Survey.

Reticulum 2 is located nearly 98,000 light years away from earth. It is one of the closest dwarf galaxies ever discovered by scientists.

Data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope showed that gamma rays from the dwarf galaxy are coming at levels above what is normally expected.

This year's Intel Science Talent Search competition has been won by three American high school seniors. The competition is also called as the 'Super Bowl of Science'.

The competition which is sponsored by Intel and is run by the non-profit Society & the Public is the nation's oldest and is considered to be most prestigious for high school seniors.

The competition started in 1942 as the Westinghouse Science Talent Search. Later in 1998 Intel became the sponsor of the search.

Winners of the top three position of this year's competition includes Noah Golowich, 17, of Lexington, Massachusetts; Andrew Jin, 17, of San Jose, California and Michael Hofmann Winer, 18, of North Bethesda, Maryland.

Duke Energy Progress has been ordered to pay $25.1 million in as fine due to coal ash contamination at a plant near Wilmington, North Carolina.

On Tuesday, the North Carolina State Department of Environmental and Natural Resources made the announcement. The department stated that Duke Energy for several years has allowed huge amount of coal ash contaminants to enter into the groundwater at the facility.

The complete amount will be given to a state fund for public schools. DENR Secretary Donald R. van der Vaart said, "In addition to holding the utility accountable for past contamination we have found across the state, we are also moving expeditiously to remove the threat to our waterways and groundwater from coal ash ponds statewide".

Aircraft leasing companies have been encouraging aircraft manufacturing company Boeing to come up with a replacement for its discontinued 757. The companies also said that priority of all aircraft manufacturing companies must be to work on existing orders.

During a press conference, Steven Udvar-Hazy, chief executive officer of American aircraft leasing company Air Lease Corp, and some of the industry's most influential figures said that a jet with 200 to 250 seats will be in great demand in near future. As the jet will be in demand in next eight to 12 years, Boeing will have enough time to focus on upgrading its smaller 737 jet that has capacity of 85 to 215 passengers. It will also allow the company to make improvements in engine.

The US and California officials have shrunk area for renewable energy plants in California desert. The officials announced Tuesday that they have more than halved the amount of California desert land, which allows local governments to decide how they want to handle large-scale solar, wind and geothermal projects on private land.

The Renewable Energy Action Team agencies, which include the US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and California Energy Commission, said that regulators will initially concentrate on about 10 million acres of federal land. Their initial plan, which was revealed in September, designated 22.5 million acres across seven counties.