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Washington, Dec 04 : A new study has revealed that "mirage earth" exoplanets, planets orbiting close to low-mass stars, might have lost chance at hosting life long ago due to intense heat during their formative years.

University of Washington indicated that low-mass stars, also called M dwarfs, are smaller than the sun, and also much less luminous, so their habitable zone tends to be fairly close in. The habitable zone was that swath of space that was just right to allow liquid water on an orbiting planet's surface, thus giving life a chance.

New Delhi - Looking to raise funds to ensure release of its chief Subrata Roy from jail, Sahara has sold a big land parcel at the outskirts of the national capital for Rs 1,211 crore to Gurgaon-based developer M3M India Ltd.

The 185-acre land in Gurgaon, with 12 million square feet built-up area, would be used for 'mix-use development' and has sales revenue potential of Rs 12,000 crore, M3M India Ltd said today while announcing the deal.

M3M India Director Pankaj Bansal also asserted that it was not a 'distress sale' by Sahara and the deal has been inked on the basis of market price.

Washington, Dec 4 : A new research has refuted the information which suggests that pandas were inflexible about habitat.

A Michigan State University (MSU) research associate has led a deep dive into aggregate data and emerged with evidence that the endangered animal is more resilient and flexible than previously believed.

Jianguo "Jack" Liu, Rachel Carson Chair in Sustainability and CSIS director said that Panda habitat selection is a complex process that they are still trying to unravel and Pandas are a part of coupled human and natural systems where humans have changed so much in their habitat.

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Washington, Dec 4 : As the Ebola epidemic continues to claim lives in West Africa , the scientists are trying to find a cure and believe that virus' deceptively simple structure is a key to taming it.

According to an article in Chemical and Engineering News, the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society, the scientists are undertaking multiple strategies, some of which are being fast-tracked for human testing to find that key.

Washington, Dec 04 : Google has launched a new feature in Gmail inboxes that allows users to edit Microsoft Office documents sent as attachments in emails.

According to the Verge, you can easily click the "edit" option on an office file from the inbox and Gmail will convert the file to the relevant Google format which will save the file in Google Drive.

Google also suggests users to use its Office Editing Chrome extension if they need to edit the Office attachments without changing the file type and do not have the Microsoft suite on the desktop.