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A New 17 Million Digit Prime Number Discovered Known as World ‘s Largest Prime Number

Scientists and mathematicians are always working on ways to prove or disprove certain theories. Research seemingly never ends and often

A group of international researchers are set to create a supercomputer to simulate the human brain

Understanding the human brain is one of the greatest challenges facing 21st century science. A new scientific endeavor hopes to

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This is How Your Brain Works

Do you wonder how your brain processes information? These brain tricks and illusions help to show how our brain work in

NASA: 2012 Was 9th Hottest Year on Record

With the exception of 1998, the nine warmest years in the 132-year record all have occurred since 2000. Shown here, global temperature anomalies (above or below the average) averaged from 2008 through 2012.

30% of Teens Meet Online 'Friends' Offline

30% of Teens Meet Online ‘Friends’ Offline

Nearly a third of teenage girls have met people offline after becoming online friends, according to a new study. In

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What Makes Ice Cubes Cloudy?

Curious children, and adults with lots of free time on their hands, often notice that apparently clear water sometimes produces

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  • January 8, 2013

Standard Kilogram Has Put On some Weight

The international standard, a cylinder-shaped hunk of metal that defines the fundamental unit of mass, has gained tens of micrograms

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  • January 5, 2013

India is going to start building the world’s largest solar telescope

India is expected to start building the world’s largest solar telescope on the icy heights of Ladakh to study the

is closer to the sun today than in rest of 2013
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  • January 2, 2013

Earth is closer to the sun today than in rest of 2013

Jan. 2 marks the time when the Earth is at perihelion, the point in its orbit at which it is

Top 7 myths about drinking water – busted!

  In almost every culture in the world, water has been elevated to the status of miracle drug that can

Ramanujan’s 100 year Old Secrets Unlocked

While on his death bed, the brilliant Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan cryptically wrote down functions he said came to him in

An employee of the Israeli Antiquities Authority displays figurines at Tel Motza archaeological site on the outskirts of Jerusalem.

2,750-year-old temple discovered in Israel

  Israeli archeologists have discovered the remains of an ancient temple that is nearly 3,000 years old and was once

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‘Alien-Like’ Skulls dig out in Mexico

Human skulls deliberately warped into strange, alien-like shapes have been unearthed in a 1,000-year-old cemetery in Mexico, researchers say.  The

Ramanujan was one of India's greatest mathematical geniuses. He made substantial contributions to the analytical theory of numbers and worked on elliptic functions, continued fractions, and infinite series.

Google Doodles Celebrate Srinivasa Ramanujan 125th birthday

The story of Srinivasa Ramanujan is both inspiring and relevant in the present context. December 22, 2012 marks the 125th