Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory is different from ordinary good memory, and has been linked to a difference in the structure of the brain.

The deadly Ebola virus has returned to haunt the African country of Uganda. The current figures suggest 20 infected and 14 dead, but both are likely to rise. With no cure or vaccine, what is man to do against this viral adversary?

Our solar system now has a cousin! Astrophysicists at the MIT have discovered another planetary system that resembles ours. Like in our solar system, the orbits of planets around the Kepler-30 star lie in a single plane.

A team of laser scientists have built a huge petawatt laser – the most powerful of its type in the world. This will now be used to accelerate particles like electrons – again something which has never been achieved.

Recent experiments by researchers at Columbia University and New York University are showing that recognizing a familiar object versus creating a new memory is influenced by incidents prior to the decision, i.e. prior incidents bias our brain either towards forming a new memory or towards recalling an existing one.

A fossil of an ancient snake has been discovered which tells us that snakes evolved on land. This is the most primitive snake discovered till date.

Google has announced the winners of the Google Science Fair 2012 competition.

America’s First Female Astronaut in Space, Sally Ride, has died after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.

Scientists have created an artificial jellyfish, using the heart muscles taken from a rat. The ‘animal’ was a silicone model of an eight-legged creature resembling a jellyfish. Welcome ‘Medusoid’ to the world.

Stanford University researchers have published the world’s first complete computer model of an organism.

NASA captured stunning images of the sun’s corona. They were the highest resolution images ever taken of the solar corona.

There are cells in our skin that can respond to the time of the day and regulate the function of the skin.

Researchers have engineered mice to display the human immune system. This could be lead to considerably faster biomedical research.

The new Mars Rover Curiosity will land on the Red Planet on the 6th of August, but NASA may not be able to see that live! Ah, but why?

For the first time, scientists at Stanford University have sequenced single sperm cells.