Asteroids are sometimes also called small planets. NASA says that these are rocky fragments left scattered in the solar system at the time of its origin 4.6 billion years ago. NASA has given the number of asteroids as 1,299,398. That means about 13 lakh asteroids have been identified so far. Talking about the asteroids of…
Heat is breaking records all over the world. Not only the land but also the oceans are warming. Gavin Schmidt, top climatologist of the American space agency NASA, has said that the month of July 2023 will probably be the world’s hottest month in thousands of years. The tools used by the European Union and…
Monkeys are considered closest to humans because their body structure is said to be almost similar to that of humans. The theory also says that man has evolved from the form of monkey. But scientists in China have done something different with monkeys. The scientists here have given birth to a monkey whose eyes are…
Humans have the ability to recognize and remember faces from a very early age. Newborn infants often show a preference for looking at faces. This ability also improves as they grow up. Face recognition is a holistic process. In this, the brain remembers faces as a whole rather than individual features. Humans are also known…
It is perhaps difficult to even estimate how far the universe has spread its wings. Modern science has been successful in peering far into the universe with the help of huge telescopes. Space scientists have now spotted a structure 9.2 billion light years away that contains thousands of galaxies and their clusters. It looks like…
Those interested in space must have heard the name of black hole. These are places in space about which nothing has been known yet. It is said that no object can pass through them. Not even light. Now space scientists have done a study which has increased their concern a lot. The study says that…
Scientists have discovered preserved brains 12 thousand years old. This discovery is shocking because it is believed that after the death of a person, the brain starts destroying rapidly. But scientists have found 4400 such brains preserved which have remained intact for thousands of years. The research has been led by Alexandra Morton Hayward of…
Researchers examined two ancient Egyptian skulls using micro-CT scanning and microscopic bone surface analysis. The study revealed that one skull had life-threatening cancerous lesions and the other skull had evidence of a healed skull fracture. Interestingly, these human skulls with cancer also showed perimortem cut marks, suggesting that these individuals may have undergone surgery or…