Canadian universities were among those believed to be hacked by a group associated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp. The United States Department of Justice said more than C$4-billion worth of intellectual property and data was stolen from American Universities alone. Nine affiliates of the Tehran-based Mabna Institute have been …
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Using the Keck-2 telescope, researchers have obtained high-resolution images of a jupiter-like planet’s atmospheric barcode and said it hints at how the planet – known technically as HR 8799c – was molded.
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An international team of researchers have found evidence that our hominin ancestors were making stone-tipped weapons for hunting approximately 500,000 years ago.
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From remotely operated vehicle footage collected over the last 20 years, MBARI researchers have gleaned the most complete look at how the vampire squid feeds in the wild.
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Science Fare Media’s Managing Editor, Lee Flohr, went one-on-one with Dr. Robert Lefkowitz to talk about the science that resulted in a call from Stockholm.
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From a tiny bit of finger bone, an international team of researchers extracted DNA and thoroughly sequenced the genome of our other human-like relatives, the Denisovans.
Read More »Curiosity Snaps First Pictures
NASA’s Curiosity rover has landed on the Red Planet!
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After analyzing the digital DNA from 464,411 songs recorded between 1955 and 2010, a team of researchers from Spain found it’s getting louder and is based on the same few chords.
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A team of researchers from the United States and Australia have measured the bite-force and tooth-pressures in all 23 living species of crocodilians – including alligators, crocodiles, caimans and gharials.
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Using cool laser technology, researchers have actually recovered individual red blood cells from the Tyrolean Iceman – the oldest red blood cells ever recovered!
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