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As per a new model developed at U of T Scarborough, a well known fossil of an early primate shares more in common with modern lemurs on the basis of how its teeth erupted. Developed by PhD student Sergi López-Torres and Associate Professors Mary Silcox and Michael Schillaci, the model re-examined the interpretation of Darwinius. Darwinius is the best preserved fossil primate known to exist.

They observed the sequence in which adult teeth come in -- called dental eruption -- in primates and discovered that it had more in common with lemurs as compared to squirrel monkeys, the model species used by the researchers who found Darwinius.

Self-destructing chips seem to become a reality soon as Xerox PARC has collaborated with the USA's DARPA labs and have come up with a chip that self-destructs on command. As per Computer World, the main thing is the material used. It is comprised of Gorilla Glass, which is seen on smartphones.

This has mainly guaranteed that nobody will be able to piece it back together to read what was on it. For making the chip, the company used Corning’s Gorilla Glass but they modified it to make it tempered glass under extreme stress.

A 27-year-old chartered accountant and auditor unwittingly had an encounter with a cave that led to finding Homo Naledi, which was unveiled to the world this week as an extinct relative of humans.

Steven Tucker and his friend, Rick Hunter, said they were out for caving expedition in a remote area at the Cradle of Humankind. They came across the find when they were trying to take a photograph.

The Homo Naledi was finally revealed on Thursday. Tucker said he was as excited as he was when he stumbled on the fossils two years ago. “It still feels like it happened yesterday. You can never get over such a moment, because of its history and how it will be talked about for decades”, he said.

A team of researchers at Queen’s University, Canada, have discovered the first ever massive binary star, epsilon Lupi, in which both stars are having their own magnetic fields. Researchers hope their discovery can provide them direction to find out how magnetic fields are generated in massive stars.

As per a report from the Queen’s Gazette, a binary star is a star system consisting of two or more stars, orbiting around their common centre of mass.

Matt Shultz from Queens University, located in Ontario, Canada, was the first to discover the two giant stars in that binary system. He presented his findings in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Japanese researchers have successfully revealed the mystery associated with the Saturn’s F ring and its shepherd satellites. Researchers said the final stage of formation of Saturn’s satellite system is responsible for their origin.

The team in their recent theory on satellite formation said that Saturn used to have ancient rings, which had far more particles than what they have presently. They said these satellites were formed from spreading and accretion of these particles.

During the final stage of satellite formation, several small satellites tend to form near the outer edge of the ring.

Months-long preparations of five Stanford University students to capture images of the Grand Canyon from the edge of space have failed. A hiker has found their cameras in the desert two years later.

The team has launched a weather balloon to carry out the project. It was carrying two cameras and a smartphone and launched in June 2013 over the desert just north of Tuba City in Arizona. Using a smartphone app, the students intended to retrieve the cameras and phone.

But they could not establish contact from the phone and their plans failed. One of the team-members, Bryan Chan, was of the view that the phone did not send any signal because it returned to earth. It landed around 80 km from the launch site in an area, where it should be having the coverage.