A singing mouse is being studied to identify the functions of a gene that plays a role in human language. Of mice and men, indeed!

As an update to a previous article about trees producing greenhouse gases, I get a chance to interview Yale Ph.D. Candidate, Kristofer Covey.

The bright and beautiful Perseids meteor shower has a peak tomorrow night. It’s the brightest and most prolific of the meteor showers. Do NOT miss this one!

The discovery of a new human-like fossil suggests that our ancestral species might have had cousins of their own.

Curiosity has sent in a plethora of photos from the Martian surface. Even though no high resolution photos are available, the first images are great by themselves. Here’s a selection

Research shows that diseased trees producing methane may be a significant contributor to greenhouse gasses and climate change.

A new bird species has been discovered in the Andes mountains and has been called Capito fitzpatricki

The Mars Rover Curiosity safely landed on Mars, marking a historic achievement for NASA and ESA. The bus-sized Curiosity, weighing in at 1 ton, touched down and the entire control room erupted in joy! Take a look.

The much awaited $9 Billion papers on the Higgs Boson have been published. What do they really tell us?

The Mars Science Laboratory, MSL, better known as Curiosity, is the new rover which is due to land on Mars on the 5/6th of August! Here, we bring you all the details about the landing – everything that you might ever want to know!

Women are known to live 5 to 10 years longer than men. One of the reasons for this asymmetery lies in genes inherited from our mothers.

It has long been known that molecules within living organisms also possess the property of asymmetry, also called chirality.. An excess of ‘L’ amino acids, thought to be a property of life, have now been found in meteorites, which represent the universe before the origins of life.

The Olympics are all set to lose the gaze of the world as the Mars Rover lands on Mars on the 5th of August, 2012. As we have already said, the Mars Rover’s landing might not be directly viewable by NASA, but we do hope that the landing goes well.

While the whole of North and East India reels under the worst power outage ever in India’s history, questions as to why this happened have begun surfacing. What is it that destroys an entire power grid? And how does it compare to two infamous North American power outages?

Extraordinary Human Sculpture Found in Turkey. Archaeologists from the University of Toronto unearth huge statue from Tayinet Project.