The interdepartmental committee, which investigates the reasons of the breakdown of Russia’s Phobos Ground spacecraft, presented the basic version of the accident. Sources at the space industry told Interfax said that, most likely, the spacecraft did not enter the departure trajectory to Mars due to the influence of plasma formation in the magnetosphere of the Earth. Scientists doubt, though,... 

Scientists at Cornell University have created a new invisibility technique that doesn't just cloak an object but also masks an entire event. Pentagon-sponsored scientists at Cornell University have invented a time cloaking device that makes an entire event invisible for a very short period of time. According to a study published in Thursday’s edition of the journal Nature, the new device... 

Researchers have spotted a gas cloud about three times the mass of Earth speeding up into the massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. Scientists expect to see outbursts of X-rays and radio waves as the cloud gas gets hotter and is finally torn asunder in 2013. They believe the phenomenon will help them learn more about how a black hole gulps gas, dust and stars as it grows bigger. Studies... 

Scientists have recently discovered a new type of cockroach in South Africa, which can jump a distance 48 times the length of its body. The insect was found in the Silvermine Nature Reserve in the Table Mountain National Park of South Africa, Royal Society Publishing journal reported. Scientists say the bug jumps with the help of its extra-long, spring-activated legs, which classifies it as a “leaproach.” According... 

Fruitful research: The light is depicted as travelling in waves across the scene The first stunning images of moving bullets appeared around 50 years ago – now a team of snap happy scientists have trumped that achievement by photographing streaks of light. Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) needed some very specialised equipment to pull off the feat, as light travels... 

The Oscillation Project with Emulsion-Racking Apparatus detector at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory, hosted a fiercely contested experiment that appears to show the accepted speed limit of the Universe can be broken. The speed of light appears to have been broken again after scientists carried out a new set of experiments to test measurements that could require the laws of physics to be rewritten. Scientists... 

New study shows that tumor cells use protein recycling to fuel their growth. A new research carried out on a variety of human tissues, suggests that recycling of protein in the body could be an important part of tumor formation. According to the report published in Science Translational Medicine, researchers found that protein recycling was accelerated in more than 30 types of cancerous cell. Scientists... 

Scientists have uncovered evidence of small lakes existing 3km below the crust of Europa. Scientists have uncovered evidence of warmer water melting and fracturing the outer layers beneath the surface of Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa. The information comes from the unmanned Galileo spacecraft, which arrived at Jupiter and its moons in 1995. The results, published in the journal Nature, suggest that... 

Jumpin' Jupiter: The solar system's largest planet may well have knocked another giant into deep space The consensus among astronomers is that the solar system has always had four giant planets – Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus. But now it’s claimed that it’s much more likely to have been home to a mystery fifth giant planet that got knocked out. Computer simulations by David Nesvorny... 

Hot topic: The plight of polar bears captures the hearts of many, but are the ice caps still shrinking? Scientist who said climate change sceptics had been proved wrong accused of hiding truth by colleague. It was hailed as the scientific study that ended the global warming debate once and for all – the research that, in the words of its director, ‘proved you should not be a sceptic, at least not... 

Scientists at the University of Bristol found that even one cannabis joint could trigger schizophrenia Smoking just one cannabis joint can bring on symptoms of schizophrenia, a study has found. Researchers at the University of Bristol have, for the first time, looked in detail at the changes in the brains of cannabis users. They found the drug disrupts the same parts of the brain as the psychotic illness,... 

Scientists have found a way to prevent HIV from damaging the immune system and say their discovery may offer a new approach to developing a vaccine against AIDS. Researchers from the United States and Europe working in laboratories on the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) found it is unable to damage the immune system if cholesterol is removed from the virus’s membrane. “It’s like... 

Scientists have sequenced the DNA of a woman who lived to be 115 years. A study suggests that the elderly woman had protective genes against dementia and diseases associated with old age The oldest woman in the world was found to have rare variations in DNA that can protect against the diseases of aging. Billed as the oldest in the world at the time of her death, she had the mental agility of someone... 

The world’s largest virus has been discovered off the coast of Las Cruces, Chile. Appropriately named Megavirus chilensis, it is about 10 to 20 times larger than the average virus and 6.5% bigger than its nearest competitor, the Mimivirus. The Megavirus measures about .7 micrometers (thousandths of a millimeter) in diameter and is an oddity among its virus brethren, which are usually smaller... 

The expedition and the scientific conference with the participation of Russian and foreign scientists drew to a close in the Kemerovo region of Russia. The events were held to either prove or deny the existence of the Yeti in the region. The press service of the regional administration said that Yeti’s existence was confirmed on the level of 95 percent. Boxer Nikolai Valuev, as well as researchers...