'Rat vision' gives humans best sight ever
Humans have the best of all possible visual worlds because our full stereo vision combines with primitive visual pathways to quickly spot danger, a study led by University of Sydney has discovered.
Nov 23, 2015, 12:47 PM IST
'Rat vision' gives humans best sight ever
The brain cells suggest that human and other primates retain a visual pathway that traces back to the primitive systems of vertebrates like fish and frogs.
Nov 23, 2015, 11:59 AM IST
NASA booster for deeper space mission including Mars
In a bid to bolster its effort to prepare humans for deeper space missions, NASA engineers have refined the key thermal protection system of Orion - new exploration spacecraft designed to ferry astronauts to asteroid and Mars.
Nov 20, 2015, 11:15 AM IST
Human brain decodes basic language like monkeys
Researchers reveals that recognising the basic structure of language is not unique to the human brain.
Nov 18, 2015, 12:56 PM IST
Fast-moving rivers release more carbon dioxide like humans: Study
Scientists have discovered a surprising similarity between rivers and humans: both release more carbon dioxide when they work hard.
Nov 16, 2015, 20:49 PM IST
Our love for honey dates back to Stone Age
The study involved large scale investigation of sites across Europe, the Near East and Northern Africa.
Nov 12, 2015, 15:57 PM IST
What makes a leader? Animals show the way
In comparison to other mammal species, human leaders are not so powerful after all.
Nov 08, 2015, 13:59 PM IST
Monkeys in Asia harbouring virus from humans
Researchers have found that monkeys which commonly dwell with people in Asia can harbour variants of a type of virus which can cause infectious gastroenteritis or diarrhoea in humans.
Nov 06, 2015, 11:24 AM IST
Check out: Top 10 weirdest creatures spotted on earth
Have you ever thought about weird creature being spotted on earth?
Nov 04, 2015, 15:00 PM IST
New link in humans, apes evolution found
Researchers have identified a new species of small ape that existed before the evolutionary split of humans/great apes (hominids) and gibbons (the 'lesser apes' or hylobatids).
Oct 31, 2015, 00:33 AM IST
MIT's RF-Capture helps identify people through walls
The RF-Capture device sends wireless signals and reconstructs the human body by analyzing reflections of those signals.
Oct 29, 2015, 10:06 AM IST
New technology to let robots walk like humans do
Scientists have developed new technology that will enable legged robots to walk like humans do, an advance that could allow the machines to work in the armed forces, save lives as firefighters or do household chores.
Oct 29, 2015, 00:25 AM IST
Humans only have one sense, not five: Study
Don Katz, an associate professor of psychology at Brandeis University in the US, has been investigating the interconnection of smell and taste in rats.
Oct 26, 2015, 14:37 PM IST
Humans may one day regrow their own teeth
Humans may be able to regrow their own teeth in the same way as a cichlid fish in Malawi lake, according to a new research.
Oct 20, 2015, 16:35 PM IST
Smell of dead can threaten humans: Study
Researchers found that putrescine, the chemical produced by decaying tissue of dead organisms, can produce a fight-or-flight response in humans.
Oct 20, 2015, 15:51 PM IST
Even honeybees love coffee!
A new study found that bees may select caffeinated nectar over an uncaffeinated, though otherwise equal-quality alternative.
Oct 16, 2015, 14:31 PM IST
By 2030s, we could be living on Mars!
We could be actually living on Mars within next few decades as NASA has unveiled its plans of building colonies on the Red Planet.
Oct 10, 2015, 14:02 PM IST
Why humans are good with tools but chimps are not
Humans use what's known as a vision for action system.
Oct 09, 2015, 20:53 PM IST
We can identify a friend's voice from just two words
The auditory capacities of humans are exceptional in terms of identifying familiar voices.
Oct 09, 2015, 20:38 PM IST
Dogs with missing gut lining treated with lab-grown 3D intestine
In a major advancement towards an implantable replacement intestine for humans suffering from devastating gut diseases, researchers have successfully grown healthy intestine atop a 3-D scaffold that can function well in a living organism.
Oct 09, 2015, 15:47 PM IST
