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Scientists have discovered an interesting behavior among beetles as they care for their child and the females do not engage in mating till the time baby beetles are independent. Females also seek help from males in caring for baby beetles.

The research team noted that female burying beetles do not allow males to mate till the time baby beetles are independent. The study has appeared on Tuesday in journal Nature Communications.

Lead researcher Sandra Steiger, an assistant professor of biology at the University of Ulm in Germany, said they are quite a modern family. They studied 400 pairs of beetles during a time period of three years.

With the help of NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory, a UCL-led research team found that solar storms have triggered Jupiter’s intense ‘Northern Lights’ by producing a new X-ray aurora that is eight times brighter compared to normal and hundreds times more energetic in comparison to Earth’s aurora borealis.

This is for the first time ever that Jupiter's X-ray aurora has been analyzed during the arrival of a huge storm from the Sun at the planet.

The striking findings go together well with NASA's Juno mission this summer which is looking forward to understand the link between the two largest structures in the solar system, including the area of space managed by Jupiter's magnetic field and the region under the control of solar wind.

A new study has concluded that modern cityscapes have been possibly changing birds into better problem solvers compared to their counterparts living in the wild or rural regions. Published recently in Behavioral Ecology, the McGill University research paper discovered that city birds studied by researchers were dissimilar to their rural counterparts in a number of ways.

In a statement, first author Jean-Nicolas Audet, a PhD candidate at McGill, said, “We found that not only were birds from urbanized areas better at innovative problem-solving tasks than bullfinches from rural environments, but that surprisingly urban birds also had a better immunity than rural birds”.

On Monday, scientists said climate change has moved French wines into unexplored territory, and may push producers to reposition, or abandon the grape varieties that played an important role in giving prominence to their vineyards.

Scientists reported in Nature Climate Change that since 1980, emerging conditions in northern climes like Champagne and Burgundy, and in sun-drenched Bordeaux, have vitally altered the ‘harvest equation’ that represented these regions. French wine is ranked among the highest in the world.

University of Michigan scientists have detected 19 new pieces of viral DNA strands, lurking within human genome after they evaluated DNA information from 2,500 individuals. The latest discovery highlights the impact of certain virus strains and their ability to impact human DNA for generations. The DNA strands were left by viruses that infected human ancestors for the first time, hundreds of thousands of years back.

The scientists behind the genome research project studied 2,500 people and detected that a stretch of newfound DNA, present in 50 of the participants, contained an intact, full genetic recipe for a total virus. The detailed findings of U-M and Tufts University research team have been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Late Tuesday, commercial Cygnus cargo ship was launched into space. Streaking into the Florida night sky, it is on a delivery mission, carrying a record-setting load of NASA experiments and gear to the International Space Station (ISS).

Yesterday, at 11:05 pm the Orbital ATK-built Cygnus blasted off atop an Atlas V rocket EDT in a smooth liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Packed with over 3.5 tons of supplies, the cargo ship is likely to arrive at the space station early on March 26.

The flight is the second for Orbital ATK's improved Cygnus craft on an Atlas V rocket given by the United Launch Alliance. The company representatives said that the cargo ship has onboard even more cargo as compared to the Orbital ATK's last record-breaking flight in December.