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Mathematicians have recently mapped out a new cheaper and easier route for manned mission to Mars, it has been reported.

It has solved the two big problems that have held humans back from getting there; the cost of the journey and the fact that it could only be done every two years, the Independent reported.

It requires lobbing the ship into an orbit like that of Mars so that it flies ahead of the planet, called ballistic capture. That was instead of the Hohmann transfer that’s currently used, where the spaceship was aimed at a certain place in the Mars orbit and meets it there.

Scientists have revealed the mystery behind spreading of lung cancer.

The researchers at the Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute discovered that the ties which lash cells together – controlled by a protein called TIAM1 – were chopped up when cell maintenance work goes wrong.

Healthy cells routinely scrap old cell parts so they could be broken down and used again. But this process spiraled out of control in lung cancer cells, which scraped too many TIAM1 ties.

Targeting this recycling process could stop lung cancer from spreading by keeping the cells stuck firmly together.

British scientists said today that they had discovered 12 genes linked to developmental disorders in children that can cause heart defects, seizures and intellectual disability.

The genes were found in a trawl of the genomes of 1,133 children with severe, undiagnosed disorders and their parents, said the authors of a study published in the journal Nature.

“These newly implicated genes increase by 10 per cent the proportion of children that could be diagnosed” by identifying the DNA mutations responsible for their condition, they wrote.

Researchers have recently developed a map of water vapor distribution in Mars’ atmosphere, it has been reported.

Research from Russian scientists from the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), together with their French and American colleagues, included observations of seasonal variations in atmospheric concentrations using data collected over ten years by the Russian-French SPICAM spectrometer aboard the Mars Express orbiter.

A new analysis of a Martian rock has revealed a record of our planet’s climate billions of years ago when water likely washed across its surface and any life that ever formed there might have emerged.

“Minerals within the meteorite hold a snapshot of the planet’s ancient chemistry of interactions between water and atmosphere,” said Robina Shaheen, project scientist at the University of California.

The meteorite, which fell on Earth 13,000 years ago, was plucked by hunters from an Antarctic ice-field 30 years ago.

Astronomers have recently spotted a new neighbor for Milky Way galaxy, a tiny and isolated dwarf galaxy almost 7 million light years away

The team, led by Prof Igor Karachentsev of the Special Astrophysical Observatory in Karachai-Cherkessia, Russia, found the new galaxy, named KKs3 , using the Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) in August 2014. Kks3 was located in the southern sky in the direction of the constellation of Hydrus and its stars have only one ten-thousandth of the mass of the Milky Way.

A new study has revealed that musical training might also help kids focus their attention, control their emotions and diminish their anxiety.

A University of Vermont College of Medicine child psychiatry team has found evidence they expected – that music playing altered the motor areas of the brain, because the activity requires control and coordination of movement and changes were observed in the behavior-regulating areas of the brain.

Researchers have recently stated that Pacific may potentially record the worst coral bleaching ever set to happen in 20 years.

Now, more than 16 years later, global warming appears to be doing what it used to require a super El Nino to do, push ocean temperatures so high across the Pacific Ocean that it sets off a major coral bleaching event, the Mashable reported.

An evangelical scholar has claimed that entire story of Jesus being born in a stable may be based on a misreading of the New Testament, saying that he was not, in fact, born there.

Rev Ian Paul recently took to his blog claiming that Jesus wasn’t born in a stable, and, curiously, the New Testament hardly even hints that this might have been the case, the Guardian reported.

British scientists found that the antibodies of llamas can be effective in neutralising a series of viruses, including HIV, the PLOS Pathogens magazine reported.

The llama is a domestic artiodactyl mammal of the camelidae family, abundant in Puna or the Andes high plains of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador and Peru.

According to Plos Pathogens, researchers of the University College of London resorted to the antibodies of those animals because they have only one gene, unlike human beings and most fauna, whose antibodies have two genes and therefore need to be matched.

Scientists from the University of Southampton have developed a new technique to mark individual brain cells to help improve our understanding of how the brain works.

The new marking technique, known as multicolour RGB tracking, allows single cells to be encoded with a heritable colour mark generated by a random combination of the three basic colours (red, green and blue).

A new study has revealed that long-term exposure to the threat of terrorism can elevate people’s resting heart rates and increase their risk of dying.

The study on 17,000 Israelis by Hebrew University of Jerusalem examined the factors affecting basal (resting) heart rates, and studied how these rates changed over the years during annual checkups of healthy Israeli subjects. Israel has been exposed to the repeated stress of multiple wars and terror attacks for over 60 years, with a major impact on the entire society.

The former astronaut Buzz Aldrin has recently revealed that he is still looking for his “good-looking” soul mate.

The 84-year-old told GQ that he was still on the scout for cute-looking ladies, the New York Post reported.

The second man on the moon divorced Lois Driggs Cannon in 2013 after 23 years of marriage and began dating 30-years-younger Michelle Sucillon but mentioned that he was still available in the market for love.

—ANI