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Oldest globe of New World discovered on ostrich eggs 27 Aug 2013 | 03:22 pm
Scientists have discovered the world’s oldest globe of the New World, dating back to the early 1500s – and it is carved onto ostrich eggs. The previously-unknown globe, which is about the size of a gr...
World War II started 55 minutes earlier than believed? 27 Aug 2013 | 12:34 pm
Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler had lied about the time the World War II started, according to the German gunner who fired first shots, saying the war got underway 55 minutes earlier than the Fuhrer claime...
200 bn free-floating starless planets roam Milky Way 22 Aug 2013 | 06:29 pm
Scientists have found that planets with no parent star can be born freely, outside of an existing solar system – and there are 200 billion of them in our galaxy. New observations show that not all fre...
Scientists to clone John Lennon using tooth DNA? 22 Aug 2013 | 03:42 pm
Cloning a Beatle! Scientists are trying to extract DNA of John Lennon from his tooth in an attempt to clone one of the rock music’s greatest stars. Canadian dentist Michael Zuk attracted world-wide at...
Exoplanet that celebrates New Year every 8.5 hours discovered 21 Aug 2013 | 10:00 pm
Researchers at MIT have discovered an exoplanet that is 700 light-years away and completes an entire rotation around its star in just 8.5 hours. The exoplanet has one of the shortest orbital periods e...
Now, see brightest nova since 2007 with naked eye 21 Aug 2013 | 07:13 pm
A white-dwarf star has erupted in the constellation Delphinus and has produced a nova that is the brightest since 2007. Currently shining at magnitude 4.9, the nova can be viewed from dark locations f...
You might weigh lighter or heavier at different places on Earth! 21 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
A person can weigh differently at various place on Earth because of the fluctuations in Earth’s gravity, which a new high-resolution map has showed is greater than previously believed. The gravity on ...
Earliest iron artifacts came from outer space 21 Aug 2013 | 02:23 pm
Cosmic jewellery! Some of the earliest iron artifacts ever found – beads strung into a necklace found in a 5000-year-old Egyptian cemetery – were made from a meteorite, archaeologists have found. Rese...
NASA Voyager 1 officially enters interstellar space 17 Aug 2013 | 02:52 pm
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has already entered interstellar space, according to reports. The model described in the paper is new and different from other models used so far to explain the data the sp...
Fossil of most evolutionarily successful mammal found in China 17 Aug 2013 | 12:50 pm
A nearly complete skeleton that belongs to the oldest ancestor of “the most evolutionarily successful and long-lived mammal lineage” on Earth has been unearthed in China, researchers from China and th...
