London, September 27 : An international team of researchers has suggested that planets orbiting the sun’s stellar siblings might have planted the seeds of life on Earth.

According to a report in New Scientist, most of the stars in the Milky Way got their start in clouds of dust and gas that eventually formed clusters of stars.

If our Sun started life in such a scenario, the cluster would most likely have drifted apart after a few hundred million of years.

But that might have been enough time for life to travel between the rocky debris surrounding each nascent star, according to a study led by astronomer Mauri Valtonen at the Turku University in Finland.

Washington, September 27: NASA and the U. S. Chess Federation (USCF) are teaming up to host the first public chess match between International Space Station astronaut Greg Chamitoff and the inhabitants of the Earth, beginning Monday, September 29.

Key players in the game will be the kindergarten through third grade U. S. Chess Championship Team and its chess club teammates from Stevenson Elementary School in Bellevue, Washington.

The K-3 champions will select up to four possible moves on Earth’s turn. The public then will vote on the move transmitted to orbit.

London, September 27: Researchers from the University of McGill in Canada, who had claimed to have found the oldest rocks on Earth, as old as 4.28 billion years, are now saying that the rocks may be 3.8 billion years old.

According to a report in new Scientist, These rocks, known as “faux-amphibolites”, may be remnants of a portion of Earth’s primordial crust – the first crust that formed at the surface of our planet.

The ancient rocks were found in Northern Quebec, along the Hudson’s Bay coast, 40 km south of Inukjuak in an area known as the Nuvvuagittuq greenstone belt.

The discovery was made by Jonathan O''Neil, a Ph. D. candidate at McGill’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, and his team.

Scientists on Thursday informed that they have been successful in tracing the

Washington, September 26: A team of University of Calgary (U of C) researchers has come up with a unique new way of testing quantum devices to determine their function and accuracy, which could pav

London, September 26: Scientists have invented a solar-assisted bicycle that gives riders extra pedal power.

According to a report in the Times, the bicycle, called a Cycle Sol, has been invented by Miroslav Miljevic, 40, as an eco-friendly form of transport.

The bright yellow device operates like a normal pedal cycle but has a canopy lined with solar cells overhead.

When the user pedals in the sunshine the rays charge a battery that powers an electric motor in the back wheel, propelling the bike at speeds of up to 15mph. It also lowers the resistance in pedalling to make it easier to go up hills.