Researchers at the University of Chicago researchers have found that the reorganization of neural activity during sleep helps young songbirds to develop the vocal skills they display while awake.It is known that sleep has a role in a broad range of learning processes studied in humans, but the neural mechanisms involved in the nighttime consolidation […]
After several days without luck, astronauts finally ran a successful test on equipment that turns urine into drinking water — a necessity for supporting the international space station’s crew, which will soon double.”Not to spoil anything, but I think up here the appropriate words are ‘Yippee!’” space station commander Mike Fincke told Mission Control early […]
Speeding 27,000 an hour around Earth, space shuttle Endeavour aimed for a docking with the international space station on Sunday to drop off a new house-mate and deliver equipment that will change the outpost into a two-kitchen, two-bath, five-bedroom home.
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Egypt’s antiquities council says that archaeologists have unearthed a 3,000-year-old red granite head believed to portray the 19th Dynasty pharaoh Ramses II.
The Supreme Council of Antiquities says the discovery was made recently at Tell Basta, about 50 miles northeast of Cairo.
The council’s statement Thursday says the 30-inch high head belonged to a colossal statue of […]
India will host the next Live Earth concert to raise funds for lighting homes with solar energy in places where people do not have access to electricity, organisers said.
The December event will see U.S. rocker Jon Bon Jovi and Bollywood’s biggest superstar, Amitabh Bachchan share the stage, and is described by organisers as one […]
Hundreds of new marine species have been found on Australia’s coral reefs, surprising an international team of biologists who announced details of their findings here Thursday.
The three expeditions to Lezard and Heron islands, and Ningaloo Reef, included a first systematic scientific inventory of spectacular soft corals, named octocorals for the eight tentacles around each polyp.
Researchers […]
The launch pad delivery of a container filled with new equipment bound for the Hubble Space Telescope next month has been delayed by at least a day due to loose insulation, space agency officials said Wednesday.
NASA workers were set to move Hubble’s delicate replacement parts to Launch Pad 39A at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center […]
US authorities raced Monday to help millions of people stranded without water and power in the wake of devastating Hurricane Ike, which left more than 17 dead across nine states.
Massive search and recovery operations were underway in storm-battered Texas, where officials said 10 people were killed and thousands rescued by boat and helicopter after Ike […]
Conducting in-depth interviews of people who survived the Indian Ocean tsunami or those who lost their loved ones in the disaster, nurse researchers found that such individuals went through a complex process of trauma and grief.Research collaborators from Norway-based Haugesund University College and the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm have revealed that they talked to people […]