Scientists Are Baffled At Karakoram’s Glaciers Growth When Glaciers Parts Of The Region & the World Are Shrinking

In most parts of the world, mountain glaciers are waning in response to global warming but the situation in Karakoram mountain range, home to the world’s second highest peak, K2, and straddling parts of China, Pakistan and India, defy the global trend and its glaciers getting thicker instead, say researchers.

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Scientists Discover A Planet That Looks like A Diamond In The Sky

A multinational team of planet hunters tracked down the orb and established that the newly discovered planet was not only the densest planet ever discovered but also that it was made of carbon and crystallized oxygen.

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Ants Can Make A Distinction Between Less & Most Threatening Intruders Of Their Kind

A study by a team of scientists led by Inon Scharf and Susanne Foitzik from the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz in Germany, wanted to find out how these socially complex ant species Temnothorax longispinosus reacted to intruders of different species.

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Opt For Safer, Effective Skin Whitening Alternative From Chinese Herbal Medicine

Scientists have reported discovery of the active ingredients in an herb used in traditional Chinese medicine for skin whitening, changing skin color to a lighter shade.

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Yawning In Chimpanzees Is Not Just Sleepiness But Empathy – Study

New research at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, may help scientists understand empathy, the mechanism thought to underlie contagious yawning, in both chimpanzees and humans.

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NASA Disown Its Researcher’s Claim Of Extraterrestrial Life

Referring to the space rocks, a researcher of NASA has made the controversial claim that they’re fossils of extraterrestrial life, where the gaps and stringy fibers look like bacteria.

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