NASA’s Juno robotic probe has started its journey to the heart of Jupiter to gather detailed information about how our solar system is formed. The Atlas 5 rocket carrying the spacecraft blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 12:25 p.m. (1625 GMT) Friday with an almost one hour delay, Reuters reported. “Next stop is Jupiter,” head of the Juno science team Scott Bolton... 

A sequence of new photographs released by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show evidence of flowing, liquid water on the mountains of the Red Planet. According to the report published in the journal Science, the images show long, dark “tendrils” a few meters wide, the BBC reported. The flowing water can be seen between rocky outcrops flowing hundreds of meters down steep slopes towards... 

Japanese scientists in Hasegawa Lab of the Tokyo Institute of Technology have built a robot that is capable of thinking, learning and having human reactions. The robot has been designed based on “unsupervised learning mechanism” called Self-Organizing Incremental Neural Network (SOINN) and enables the robot to estimate future patterns and networks, PC magazine reports. Unlike the robots that... 

The Herschel space telescope has for the first time discovered molecular oxygen in a star-forming region of the constellation of Orion. While single atoms of oxygen have been found alone or incorporated into other molecules, the oxygen moleculeس had never been seen in space so far, the BBC reported. Although oxygen is the third most abundant element in the cosmos, its molecular form that makes life... 

The fungus was found growing on the underside of a large tree. Scientists have discovered the largest fruiting body of any fungus documented so far, on the underside of a tree in China’s Hainan Province. The new giant fungus is believed to be at least 20 years old with a fruiting body equivalent to the mushrooms produced by other fungi species, the BBC reported. The body which is up to 10m long,... 

Nearly half of all Western European men are related to the Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun, British media report, citing a team of geneticists in Switzerland. Scientists at a Zurich-based DNA genealogy center, reconstructed the DNA profile of the boy Pharaoh, who ascended the throne at the age of nine more than 3,000 years ago. The results showed that King Tut belonged to a genetic profile group to... 

US Air Force chief scientist Mark Mayberry briefed the AirVenture symposium on the future of electric flight this morning, allowing your blogger the pleasure of one of our favorite games: Spot the funny-looking aircraft on the AFRL briefing slides! Hey, it’s one way to survive death-by-PowerPoint. 1. F-X is the new name for the USAF’s very preliminary programme (see this story) to replace... 

Western and Israeli media were quick to announce that the 35-year-old Iranian Dariush Rezai killed on July 23 in Tehran was a prominent nuclear physicist who played an important role in the development of Iran’s nuclear program. Iranian authorities have confirmed the fact of murder. However, according to the latest data, he was not a professor of nuclear physics but a student named Dariush Rezainedzhad,... 

Tomb of St. Philip the Apostle (one of the 12 original disciples of Jesus Christ) discovered in the southwestern province of Denizli in Turkey. Archeologists have found the tomb of St. Philip the Apostle, one of the 12 original disciples of Jesus Christ, in the southwestern province of Denizli in Turkey. The tomb was discovered at the ruins of a recently unearthed church in the ancient Turkish city... 

Iran's Deputy Minister of Science, Research and Technology Mohammad Mehdinejad Nouri. Iran’s Deputy Minister of Science, Research and Technology Mohammad Mehdinejad Nouri says the country has the fastest scientific growth in the world. “Over the past 30 years, Iran has ranked first in the world, with the eleven-fold increase in science growth,” said Mehdinejad Nouri, quoted by the IRIB... 

The planet Jupiter is seen in this image released by NASA on November 24, 2010, which is a composite of three-color images taken on November 18, 2010 by the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is preparing to send its robotic probe on an unprecedented mission to the heart of Jupiter. Juno was hoisted aboard an unmanned Atlas 5 rocket at Cape Canaveral... 

A group of American astrophysicists led by Alberto Cezanne came to the conclusion that some “mysterious” phenomena that occur in our galaxy are associated with the cosmic catastrophe that occurred ten million years ago. Then, the scientists say, the Milky Way collided with a dwarf galaxy the center of which was a massive black hole. For example, it is difficult to explain too high rate... 

Asian-born Australians may soon outnumber whites, says government study. The number of Asians in Australia has almost doubled in a decade, from 1.03 million in mid-2000 to 2.1 million in the middle of last year, according to government statistics. Pramod Kumar is part of a wave of immigration that has changed the face of Australia over the past decade. Mr. Kumar is from Hyderabad in India’s northwest.... 

Can there be life on Mars, at least in the form of micro-organisms? Scientists have not been able to answer this question clearly. What if they could do the opposite – simulate “Martian” conditions for terrestrial bacteria in a laboratory and see if they survive? Such an experiment was designed by a group of researchers from the University of Padua (Italy). Once, Soviet astronomer... 

Kavoshgar 4 (Explorer 4) satellite carrier. Head of Iran Space Agency (ISA) Hamid Fazeli says the country plans to send a live monkey into space onboard the country’s domestically-made Kavoshgar 5 (Explorer 5) satellite carrier. “Kavoshgar 5, with a weight of 285 kg, will blast off into space with a living creature (a monkey) in the next Iranian calendar month (that begins on July 23),” IRNA...