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If conditions had been just a little different an eon ago, there might be plentiful life on Venus and none on Earth, according to a hypothesis by Rice University scientists. The researchers maintain that minor evolutionary changes could have altered the fates of both Earth and Venus in ways that scientists may soon be able to model through observation of ...

A group of researchers have found 6.5 crore years old fossilized dinosaur eggs in Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh. The two sites are at a distance of about 8kms from each other. It is said that there are about 15-15 eggs in both of the sites respectively. In 2007 the place drawn attention of the world, when 25 nests of ...

A new survey has put bats at the risk of extinction due to deforestation, especially in the Western Ghats of India but there is a glimmer of hope for the species in the upcoming coffee plantation. Besides deforestation, rampant consumption of natural resources too has pushed many species into extinction and tigers, some rare species of birds are the biggest ...

Dementia or a condition where the patient suffers corrosion of memory, thought process, conduct, and the capability to carry out daily chores, as explained by the World Health Organization (WHO), is one of the growing concerns of the medical world. Offering some hope, a new study has shown that insulin might bear potential to treat dementia, which is most usually ...

Manish Kumar, assistant professor of chemical engineering at Pennsylvania State University, has developed a self-assembling artificial membrane that can be used in fuel separation, water purification, drug supply and DNA recognition. The membrane with lipids or fat molecules and protein-appended molecules that switch water on pure membranes and self-assembles into two-dimensional buildings with parallel channels works just like nature in ...

For smokers inside a room filled with smoke, there is a new air-cleaner filter invented by Korean scientists that can exhaust dangerous gases in a room with 80% purification, which is not possible with existing equipment. Led by Jongsoo Jurng of Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KSIT) in Seoul, the researchers invented a manganese oxide nano-catalyst, the filter can ...

While research is in praise of olive oil till now, new study has thrown light on similar health benefits for canola oil that is extracted from the canola plant for use as kitchen oil. Besides its nutritional value, canola oil is billed as weight-reducing agent to tackle obesity and lifestyle risks in modern day food habits. With its taste-less and ...

Indian government is accelerating the process of supercomputing in the country with 70 supercomputers soon to forecast weather and use them for defence applications, in a major step to modernize its capabilities of prediction of natural disasters and defence emergencies in the future. To be equipped with an operational speed ranging from from 0.5 to 20 petaflops, these supercomputers will ...

Life might have existed on Mars once but finding it out is a tough tsk ahead for US geologists Alison Olcott Marshall and her husband Craig. Alison, an expert on Raman Spectroscopy to find out microscopic organism, is gearing up to find life on Mars using all the modern methods and the data gathered from the new techniques. In view ...

The fear psychology knows no bounds and now some geologists who had warned about “a great earthquake” that devastated Nepal on April 25 have turned their attention to Uttarakhand saying it has all the potential to experience similar earthquake. “The landscape and erosion rate patterns suggest that the decollement beneath Uttarakhand provides a sufficiently large and coherent fault segment capable ...