Machu Picchu was pilgrimage center, not true city, say researchers

September 25th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A new study that reports precise ages for glacial moraines in southern Peru links climate swings in the tropics to those of Europe and North America during the Little Ice Age approximately 150 to 350 years ago. According to lead author Joe Licciardi, associate professor of Earth sciences at the University of New Hampshire, "The study brings us one step closer to understanding global-scale patterns of glacier activity and climate during the Little Ice Age.

September 21st, 2009 SYDNEY - A book, titled, "The Road Less Travelled: 1,000 Amazing Places Off the Tourist Trail", has outlined the world's most over-rated tourist sites. According to a report carried out in www.news.com.au, here are the 5 most over-rated ancient and historical sites in the world, according to the book.

September 9th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A drug initially used to treat seizures improves sleep quality in menopausal women with hot flashes, claims a new study. University of Rochester Medical Center researchers have reported the finding online and in the September issue of the Journal of Women's Health.

August 18th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Organic nano-scale wires may serve as an alternative to silicon in computer chips, according to a collaborative team of Chinese and Danish researchers. Nanochemists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Nano-Science Center, Department of Chemistry at the University of Copenhagen, say that they have created nanoscale electric contacts out of organic and inorganic nanowires.

July 28th, 2009 LONDON - A study on domestic cats conducted by researchers at Queen"s University Belfast in Northern Ireland suggests that, more often than not, females tend to be righties, while males are lefties. Psychologists Deborah Wells and Sarah Millsopp, however, point out that these preferences only manifest when cats perform particularly dexterous feats.

July 25th, 2009 LONDON - A study on domestic cats conducted by researchers at Queen's University Belfast in Northern Ireland suggests that, more often than not, females tend to be righties, while males are lefties. Psychologists Deborah Wells and Sarah Millsopp, however, point out that these preferences only manifest when cats perform particularly dexterous feats.

July 13th, 2009 LIMA - A team of archaeologists has discovered an Inca road in Peru, which was unknown until now and apparently held sacred, leading to the citadel of Machu Picchu. According to a report in Today's News, the discovery was made by archaeologists from the Peru National Culture Institute and technicians from Jaume I University in Castellon, Spain.

July 2nd, 2009 LIMA - In a new study, a team of scientists have determined that the success of the Inca was boosted by a period of global warming that lasted more than four centuries. The new study is called "Putting the Rise of the Inca within a Climatic and Land Management Context" and was prepared by Alex Chepstow-Lusty, an English paleo-biologist working for the French Institute of Andean Studies, in Lima, Peru.

June 21st, 2009 LONDON - A recent study shows that we use two separate processes to determine the subtle differences between true and false in our daily lives as opposed to previous views that true and false statements are both processed in the left inferior frontal cortex. According to researchers from the Universities of Lisbon and Vita-Salute, Milan, determining whether a statement is true involves memory and deciding whether one is false relies on reasoning and problem-solving processes.

June 18th, 2009 LIMA - Archaeologists at the National Institute of Culture (INC) have found a pre-Inca tomb in the Salapunku archaeological site, located inside the Machu Picchu Archaeological Park in Cusco, southeastern Peru. Resident archaeologist Francisco Huaycaya Quispe said that these remains would belong to a woman from the Quillke culture, an indigenous which flourished before the Inca Empire.

June 18th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A team of Portuguese and Italian researchers from the Universities of Lisbon and Vita-Salute, Milan, have found that humans use two separate processes to determine the subtle distinctions between true and false in their daily lives. Writing about their neuroimaging study, titled 'June Cortex', the researchers point out that deciding whether a statement is true involves memory, and that determining whether one is false relies on reasoning and problem-solving processes.

June 5th, 2009 LONDON - Archaeologists in Peru have discovered the remains of nearly three dozen people sacrificed some 600 years ago in a gruesome ritual by the Incan civilization. The bodies, some of which show signs of having been cut along their necks and collarbones, were otherwise found in good condition, Carlos Webster, who is leading excavations at the Chotuna-Chornancap camp, told the Telegraph.

April 27th, 2009 Ohio study with hobby planes looks at bird strikesHURON, Ohio — Researchers want to fly remote-controlled airplanes near Lake Erie to determine whether lighting systems could scare away birds and cut down the number of mid-air collisions with flying fowl. Wildlife biologists hope the study will help them understand more about how birds react to planes.

April 23rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Thinking your memory will get worse as you become older may actually make it come true. Researchers found that the elderly who thought that seniors would perform poorly on memory tests scored worse than their counterparts who didn't buy this outlook.

April 21st, 2009 WASHINGTON - Grasping a glass or throwing a baseball could be an arduous task for the arm with over 30 muscles working in tandem. But now, researchers have found that stimulating groups of muscles instead of individual muscles could make it easier to control the limbs.