Aztec Calendar, an adaptation of the Mayan calendar, consisted of a 365-day agricultural calendar, as well as a 260-day sacred calendar. (This is a digital composite. Color added for visibility.) The discovery in a Guatemala jungle of a previously unknown version of the Mayan calendar offers humankind a ray of hope: the world is not going to end on December 21, 2012 and could most probably last for... 

A new report prepared by the Foreign Intelligence Service circulating in the Kremlin today says that the United States top National Security Advisor to President Obama, Thomas Donilon, was granted a “rushed meeting” with President Putin this past Friday wherein he warned the Russian leader that the world as we know it may be about to end. According to this report, the Obama regime became alarmed... 

Prime Minister Putin has recently unveiled the new Russian direction of exploration, in some ways it is both more ambitious and more modest than earlier. The crash of the Phobos probe, has caused Russia to pull back, temperarly from Mars and reset its sights closer to home. Some say that the crash in the computer systems were caused by bad design, by a rougher than expected take off or maybe even... 

Stargazers will be treated to a rare glimpse of a “Supermoon” this weekend when our celestial neighbor strays closest to Earth. During the annual display, the moon appears to swell larger in size and wax in brightness. Scientists say that the moon will look 14 per cent bigger and 30 per cent brighter than all the other full moons of 2012 and will be visible at its peak from 03:00 GMT on Sunday... 

The 5300-year-old iceman mummy was found in the Alps in 1991. Italian and German scientists have extracted the World’s oldest known human blood cells from the body of the 5300-year-old ’Otzi’ iceman mummy. The discovery was made using an atomic force microscope that examined tissue sections of a wound in the body of the mummy and detected red blood cells. The body of the Stone Age human has... 

Many scientific studies try to discover how and why some are more intelligent than others. Undoubtedly, intelligence can be simply summarized as the ability for problem-solving, which is constitutional, that is, the individual is born with it, and over time, it us enhanced by experience and knowledge of solutions. But if we are born with our determined intelligence, is it necessarily inherited? The... 

Researchers have suggested that wind turbines and lenticular cloud wind turbines can affect local weather by increasing night-time temperature. According to the study published in Nature Climate Change, the temperature of the area near the newly constructed wind farms are higher than next-door areas. Using satellite data, US scientists concluded that the effect is caused by turbines bringing relatively... 

The F-22 is the world’s most sophisticated operational fighter plane, and one of the most expensive. But due to an unexplained and potentially deadly problem that causes oxygen to drain out of the cockpit, pilots are refusing to be assigned to it. Air Force General Mike Hostage admitted that a number of F-22 pilots are refusing to fly the stealth fighter until it is completely safe or have asked... 

The Italian researcher Matteo Ianneo who discovered some five interesting structures which look like human faces on Mars, last year, has discovered something stunning again. This time, the man claims to have found geometric structures on Mars which altogether look like a city. The newly discovered “city” comes an year after his first discovery in April 2011 in which he discovered a crystal-clear... 

High-resolution photos taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show lava coils on the Martian surface in a region of valleys near the Red Planet’s equator. The recently found patterns were first discovered by graduate student Andrew Ryan of Arizona State University who studied possible interactions of lava flows and floods of water in the Elysium volcanic province of Mars. “I was interested... 

Beautiful mind: Jason Padgett sees mathematical formulas and turns them into stunning, intricate diagrams he can draw by hand A college dropout has been hailed a unique maths genius – after his brain was damaged in a brutal attack by muggers. Jason Padgett, 41, was left concussed after he was ambushed outside a karaoke club and repeatedly kicked in the head. Now, wherever he looks, he sees mathematical... 

The Princeton scientists suggest that it's likely that Earth is a one-off - and that life may not have evolved anywhere else NASA has said there are ‘billions’ of planets in our own Milky Way galaxy – but a new study suggests that the idea that they are teeming with alien lifeforms may just be wishful thinking. Two Princeton scientists used what’s known as ‘Bayesian... 

Risat-1 with one of its solar panel wings is seen at the Satish Dhawan Space Center. India says it has successfully positioned its first domestically-built radar imaging satellite into orbit from a spaceport in the east coast of the country. The Risat-1 satellite, aboard a 321-ton launch rocket, took off at 5:47 am (0027 GMT) Thursday from the spaceport of Sriharikota in the southern state of Andhra... 

Laser bomb detector Not even the tiniest of particles will be able to escape the new super-sensitive explosive detecting device created by Russian scientists. Its laser sensor can pick up on a single molecule in a million from up to 50 meters away. ­The device was developed over a period of five years by the Siberian branch of the country’s Academy of Sciences. It will undergo full testing this... 

Captured US RQ-170 drone Iran has completed reverse-engineering of the captured US spy drone and has started building its own copy, Iranian media reports. The Revolutionary Guard is yet to decode parts of the software the Sentinel aircraft uses, General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, who heads the force’s aerospace division, said on Sunday. “The Americans should be aware to what extent we have infiltrated...