Washington, May 23 (ANI): For most animal species, moving objects play a major role in the processing of sensory impressions in the brain, as they often signal the presence of a welcome prey or an imminent threat.

Washington, Apr.20 (ANI): Wild fires not only destroy millions of trees each year but the residue is transported to the sea by rivers which penetrates the carbon cycle, a recent study has revealed.

Washington, April 18 (ANI): A research team at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics has created a new keyboard called KALQ that enables faster thumb-typing on touchscreen devices.

Washington, March 29 (ANI): In a new study, researchers have found that house mice (Mus musculus) showed a definite preference for mating with individuals from their father's original population.

Washington, March 20 (ANI): Teamwork has been fundamental in humanity's greatest achievements and now scientists have found that this trait has its evolutionary roots in our nearest primate relatives - chimpanzees.

Washington, February 14 (ANI): A research team has revealed the reason why some people are worse at learning than others.

London, February 10 (ANI): One way to find whether exoplanets would contain life forms would be by looking at their distinctive colours, say scientists.

Washington, January 24 (ANI): Researchers have found that in chimpanzees cooperative relationships are facilitated by an endocrinological mechanism involving the hormone oxytocin, even when these are between non-kin.

Washington, December 18 (ANI): Removal of germ cells - the sperm and egg producing cells - increases longevity of the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans, but the underlying molecular mechanisms were a mystery.

Washington, December 18 (ANI): Max Planck scientists have identified a potential new target to fight multidrug-resistant bacteria: the factor EF-P.

London, December 6 (ANI): A discovery made by a Georgia State University professor and international researchers could lead to transistors - the fundamental part of all modern electronics - controlled by laser pulses that will be 10,000 times faster than today's fastest transistors.

Washington, December 3 (ANI): Adults who were exposed to trauma in early childhood are more likely to suffer from anxiety and mood disorders, as traumatic experience induces lasting changes to their gene regulation, according to scientists.

Washington, November 30(ANI): Synchronization emerges between brains when making music together, and even when musicians play different voices, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin have found.

Washington, November 15 (ANI): Our listening abilities oscillate and depend on the exact timing of one's brain rhythms, a new study has revealed.

Washington, October 31 (ANI): Using the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Telescope and techniques more commonly encountered in Hollywood blockbuster computer graphics than in astronomy, a team of researchers has produced a three-dimensional map of the molecular cloud B68, a possible future birthplace for a low-mass star.

Washington, October 16 (ANI): People are living longer than ever, thanks mostly to industrialisation.

Washington, October 5 (ANI): Harvard and Max Planck Institute scientists have estimated the date when Neanderthals and modern Europeans last shared ancestors to explain why Neanderthals are most closely related to people outside Africa.

Washington, August 30 (ANI): Chimpanzees are not only capable of learning from one another, but they also use this social information to form and maintain local traditions, researchers have found.

Washington, August 21 (ANI): Children as young as 3 apparently can tell the difference between whining and when someone has good reason to be upset, and they will respond with sympathy usually only when it is truly deserved, according to a new research.

Washington, August 10 (ANI): Polygynous male pectoral sandpipers that sleep the least sire the most young during the breeding season, according to a new study.

Washington, August 8 (ANI): Max Planck scientists have made a major step forward in understanding the cause of dyslexia, a learning disability where patients have difficulties reading and writing.

Washington, August 2 (ANI): Most of world population, especially in China, North India and the Middle East are expected to be affected by a drastic decrease in air quality over the coming decades, according to a new atmospheric model.

Washington, July 20 (ANI): Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg and Oxford University have refuted a central tenet of neuroscience regarding the function of hippocampal NMDA receptor-transmitted plasticity in spatial learning.

Washington, July 18 (ANI): What denotes keywords is not the fact that they appear very frequently in a given text, but it is that they are found in greater numbers only at certain points in the text, scientists from the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems have found.

London, May 4 (ANI): Researchers have accused Skype for allowing a privacy vulnerability, which potentially let people know the location of a caller, to stay in their software for more than a year.