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by Alec Cope, Collective Evolution So far, life as we know it has needed one ingredient to survive: water. This primordial and basic compound is essential for life on this planet, and a new study shows it is most likely very abundant in the Universe....

Two decade-long archaeological excavations conducted by Polish researchers in the Egyptian necropolis at Saqqara helped to shed light on social status and physical health of the people who lived during the Old Kingdom and Ptolemaic-Early Roman Period as well. Anaemia, chronic sinusitis, tooth decay are...

Can you with certainty say what is real or not? How do you prove that what you see is real? According to a new study not everything you see is actually real. Many things around you are a visual illusion, scientists say. There is even...

– Our ancestors had a tail and they lost it twice. What we, modern humans have today is only a “vestigial” tail, an evolutionary leftover. It is visible in embryos, but by the time we are born, we only have a few small bones that...

If you like mushrooms, here is some good news for you. Scientists have discovered that some mushrooms may contain unusually high amounts of two antioxidants that could help fight aging and bolster health. Penn State researchers have discovered that mushrooms have high amounts of the...

Are male and female brains different? Yes, they are, indeed. While some brain features are more or less common or even almost identical, there are some key differences. These features explain that females and males behave and react in characteristic but also different ways. A...

The Sun’s magnetic activity continuously varies and alter the influx of cosmic rays to the Earth. Spaceweather.com reports daily about the Sun’s activity. Today’s report is: “A GASH IN THE SUN’S ATMOSPHERE: Magnetic maps of the sun’s atmosphere reveal a long gash, more than 700,000...

Today’s Martian surface is barren, frozen and inhabitable but once, the planet was warmer and wetter planet. For now, it is not possible to answer the question of where the water on the planet went. However, new research  suggests that this water is now locked...

Theoretically, it is possible that pulsar could host habitable planets, researchers say. For the first time, astronomers have tried to calculate the ‘habitable’ zones near neutron stars – the range of orbits around a star where a planetary surface could possibly support water in a...

One of the most intriguing planetary systems discovered to date is TRAPPIST-1, a system of seven Earth-size worlds orbiting an ultra-cool dwarf star about 40 light-years away. The TRAPPIST-1 star is between 5.4 and 9.8 billion years. It means it is up to twice as...