Washington, Oct 20 : The Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) on board NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is helping astronomers scout potential landing sites for NASA's next Mars rover mission.

The powerful mineral-mapping camera has mapped 125 new images of possible landing sites on the Red Planet.

CRISM principal investigator Dr. Scott Murchie has said since the 2009 Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) “will assess whether Mars ever had an environment capable of supporting life, it will have to land in an area with a mineral record indicative of past water”.

Washington, Oct 20 : Researchers at the University of Liverpool have found that a large proportion of infants who suffer from bronchiolitis have an inherent predisposition to the disease.

Washington, Oct 19 : Understanding how bats communicate during their nocturnal outings could lead to better treatments for human speech disorders, say researchers at Texas A&M University.