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Washington, September 4 (ANI): By combining telescopes in Hawaii, Arizona, and California, astronomers have taken the closest look ever at the giant black hole in the center of the Milky Way.

Canberra, September 4 (ANI): A new research has indicated that in the animal kingdom, offsprings from the same father tend to stick together, a prominent example being the small tropical fish known as the guppy.

New Delhi, September 4 (ANI): The archaeology department of China's Chongqing Municipality have announced the discovery of a tomb made from more than 2,000 blue and white porcelain bowls, which dates back to the Qing Dynasty.

Lima (Peru), September 4 (ANI): A scientific expedition, made up of Polish, North American, and Peruvian specialists, discovered tombs, apparently from the Pre-Incan culture, as well as archaeological remains in Peru's Colca canyon.

London, September 4 (ANI): An archaeologist has uncovered the foundations for a Roman settlement on East Cleveland coast in the US.

Washington, September 4 (ANI): New estimates have indicated that the melting Greenland ice, spurred by global warming, could cause oceans to rise three times faster than previously predicted, by more than a foot (30 centimeters) over the next hundred years.

Washington, September 4 (ANI): A scientific expedition this fall will map the unexplored Arctic seafloor, where the US and Canada may have sovereign rights over natural resources such as oil and gas and control over activities such as mining.

Washington, September 4 (ANI): A new study has bolstered the theory that global warming may be contributing to stronger hurricanes in the Atlantic.

Washington, September 4 (ANI): A new research has indicated that large flightless birds of the southern continents do not share a common flightless ancestor as once believed, thus challenging long-held assumptions of flightless bird evolution.

Washington, September 4 (ANI): Computer scientists at Florida Atlantic University, including an Indian-origin researcher, have devised a new anti-hacking system to protect wireless sensor networks (WSN).

Washington, September 4 (ANI): NASA has announced the new Carl Sagan Postdoctoral Fellowships in Exoplanet Exploration, created to inspire the next generation of explorers seeking to learn more about planets, and possibly extraterrestrial life, around other stars.

Washington, September 3 (ANI): A new study suggests that humans have a higher cognition than other mammals because they possess different types of cells, and not due to having larger cells.

Washington, September 3 (ANI): Researchers at Emory University School of Medicine have found that experienced Zen meditators can clear their minds of distractions more quickly than novices.

Washington, September 3 (ANI): Scientists have begun to analyze a sample of soil delivered to NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's wet chemistry experiment from the deepest trench dug so far in the Martian arctic plains.

Washington, September 3 (ANI): While the significance of multi-tasking is increasing day by day, researchers at the University of New Hampshire say that it is possible to predict when a person will prove to be an efficient multi-tasker.

Washington, Sept 3 (ANI): Researchers at the University of Michigan have found that babies whose mothers experienced depression any time before they became pregnant, or developed mood problems while they were pregnant, are much more prone to having chaotic sleep patterns in the first half-year of life than babies born to non-depressed moms.

Munich, September 3 (ANI): The European Southern Observatory's (ESO's) Wide Field Imager has captured the intricate swirls of a spiral galaxy, which is a smaller look-alike of our own Milky Way.

London, September 3 (ANI): A research on the collision of entire clusters of galaxies has helped set the strongest limit yet on the amount of antimatter in the Universe, proving that it exists in rarity.

London, September 3 (ANI): Scientists have determined that the Sun's activity is now at a minimum, with virtually no sunspots marking the face of the star for the most of 2008.

Washington, September 3 (ANI): Researchers at the University of Zurich in Switzerland have found that male fallow deer's groans during the breeding season reveal their status and size, and the information is exploited by females to chose mates.