Evidence of life found in lake deep beneath Antarctic ice

Researchers drilling into a buried Antarctic lake 600 kilometers from the South Pole have discovered amazing indications of ancient life: the bodies of tiny...

New method for the transmission of electrons between proteins

Scientists at the Catalonian Institute of Bioengineering (Instituto de Bioingeniería de Cataluña) and the Seville Chemical Research Institute (Instituto de Investigaciones Químicas de Sevilla)...

How musicians communicate non-verbally during performance?

Successfully performing music with a group is a highly complex endeavor. To perform expressive music, musicians coordinate with each other. Now, a group of scientists at...

Scientists finally know what time it is on Saturn

Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter. This gas giant actually has no solid surface...

Why do Hydra end up with just a single head?

Hydra is single polyps, generally 1–15mm in length, with a whorl of tentacles at the top of a column and an adherent base at...

Scientists accidentally engineer mice with unusually short and long tails

While studying mouse development, scientists from two groups accidentally created mice with unusually short and long tails. This discovery could become an awesome example...

Understanding link between extreme rainfall events and floods

It has been reported that extreme rainfall events are increasing over India and widespread floods have increased threefold over the last several decades from...

Unraveling of 58-year-old corn gene mystery may have plant-breeding implications

Scientists snow have successfully solved a six-decades-old mystery of corn- why red pigments appear on corn sometimes. They solved the mystery while discovering a mutant gene...

Researchers developed Lotus-inspired biodegradable water repellent material

A water-repelling, biodegradable material inspired by lotus leaves has been developed by a joint team of researchers from India, Switzerland, and Italy. Super-hydrophobic or water...

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft spotted fresh rainfall on Saturn’s moon Titan

The international Cassini spacecraft has captured an image that shows the rainfall on the north pole of Titan, the largest of Saturn's moons. Scientists noted...

Scientists find brain cells that make pain hurt

A team of scientists at Stanford University has identified a bundle of brain cells in mice responsible for the latter—that is, the negative emotions...

3 animations provided by NASA scientist suggests the speed of light is frustratingly slow

Light-speed is the fastest that any material object can travel through space. The speed of light in a vacuum is 186,282 miles per second (299,792...