Washington, June 8: Scientists searching for aliens have shifted gear by now looking for extra terrestrials (ET's) around stars that lie more or less along lines of sight of Earth, a region known a

Washington, June 8 : A new research by scientists has found that genetically modified (GM) plants that use a common soil bacterium to kill pests, won't harm beneficial bugs that are the natural ene

London, June 7 : By studying the cosmic microwave background (CMB), a team of physicists has claimed that time might have existed even before the Big Bang in the Universe.

According to a BBC report, CMB is the light emitted when the universe was just 400,000 years old, and is regarded as the most conclusive evidence for the Big Bang.

Although this microwave background is mostly smooth, the Cobe satellite in 1992 discovered small fluctuations that were believed to be the seeds from which the galaxy clusters we see in today’s Universe grew.

Dr Adrienne Erickcek, and colleagues from the California Institute for Technology (Caltech), now believes these fluctuations contain hints that our Universe “bubbled off” from a previous one.

London, June 7 : Two new studies have suggested that NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander may have been coated with dozens of species of bacteria when it left Earth, which might have hopped on to Martian sur

London, June 7 : Experts fear that sharks are seeking human as their targets for the first time after a string of Jaws-style attacks on a resort in Mexico.