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Fish larvae`s visual system plays key role in hunting prey


For most animal species, moving objects play a major role in the processing of sensory impressions i...

Einstein`s theory holds up in deep space


Some 7,000 light years away, Einstein`s theory of general relativity has stood up to its most intens...

Chimpanzees use botanical skills to discover fruit


Chimpanzees are aware that trees of certain species produce fruit simultaneously and use this botani...

German scientists decode entire Neanderthal genome


German scientists have completed the first high-quality sequencing of a Neanderthal genome, and made...

`Love hormone drives social relations in chimps`


Scientists have discovered that in chimpanzees love hormone oxytocin plays a key role in maintaining...

Humans living 40,000 years ago related to present-day Asians


DNA analysis has found that ancient humans living some 40,000 years ago in the area near Beijing wer...

Birds sing at higher pitch in noisy cities


Birds sing at a higher pitch to differentiate it from the low-frequency sound of traffic to make the...

Scientists discover black hole with a mass of 14 billion suns


Astronomers have discovered a ginormous black hole in a galaxy 220 million light years away that cou...

Neanderthals `bred with modern humans` 37,000 years ago


Modern Europeans interbred with Neanderthals as recently as 37,000 years ago, a new research has fou...

Methane on Mars `not an indication for life`


Researchers has found a major source of methane on Mars, which may bring “down to earth” all those w...

Oldest `impossible` alien worlds discovered


Scientists have discovered two giant exoplanets orbiting a metal-poor star 375 light-years away.

Entire genome of Denisovan decoded from finger bone


German anthropologists have decoded the entire genome sequence of a Denisovan from a finger bone fos...