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In search of planets and the summer Milky Way, astronomer Tunç Tezel took an evening road trip. Last Saturday, after driving the winding road up Uludag, a mountain near Bursa, Turkey, he was rewarded by this beautiful skyview to the...

On July 4th, 2005, the Deep Impact spacecraft directed a probe to impact the nucleus of Comet Tempel 1. Still cruising through the solar system, earlier this year the robotic spacecraft looked back to record a series of images of...

Whistling at a pretty girl or for hailing a cab or even for carrying a tune has always been a human domain. But recently an orangutan’s spontaneous whistling only after hearing a caretaker make the sound shocked scientists at Great...

The machine to the left that resembles a bazooka actually does something completely different. Entitled the "Predator," it detects wi-fi signals in whatever direction you turn it and will allow you to connect via your own router. Read more here...

Biologists always considered platypus as one of the most unique animals that is so hard to accurately classify in any phyla of the animal kingdom. It now makes sense how correctly confused they had always been about this egg-laying mammal....

This artist's rendering depicts NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft as it studies the outer limits of the heliosphere--a magnetic 'bubble' around the solar system that is created by the solar wind. The magnetic bubble is not spherical, but pressed inward in...

An elephant is a big animal. Big animals normally eat more than small animals. Also, big animals then end up pooping more than small animals. Now that a connection has been made between big animals and high quality and quantity...

A marijuana puff a day keeps Alzheimer’s away! A new research has found out that marijuana may actually fight memory loss if taken in small doses amounting to just one puff a day. Researchers have tested a chemical compound on...