Science

Nasa’s Mars rover makes historic landing

National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (Nasa) Mars rover Perseverance streaked through the orange Martian sky and landed on the red…

4 years ago

Scientists discover star rotating in opposite direction to its planets

Scientists in Denmark have recently discovered a distant planetary system harbouring two planets that orbit a star rotating backwards. Simon…

4 years ago

England’s Stonehenge was erected in Wales first

Around 3200 B.C.E., Stone Age farmers in Wales’s Preseli Hills built a great monument: They carved columns of unspotted dolerite,…

4 years ago

World’s largest COVID-19 drug trial identifies second compound that cuts risk of death

The world’s largest trial of COVID-19 drugs has produced more good news: The anti-inflammatory drug tocilizumab cut the death risk…

4 years ago

Researchers create Neanderthal-like ‘mini-brains’ in lab

Researchers have switched a single human gene out for its Neanderthal counterpart in brain tissue grown in a lab dish.…

4 years ago

UAE spacecraft enters orbit around Mars in historic flight

A spacecraft from the United Arab Emirates swung into orbit around Mars on Tuesday in a triumph for the Arab…

4 years ago

Data from Israel show drop in infections as vaccines seen to be curbing COVID-19

Israeli researchers are seeing signs that COVID-19 vaccines are helping to curb infections and hospitalisations among older people, almost six…

5 years ago

SpaceX launches record spacecraft in cosmic rideshare programme

A veteran rocket from billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s SpaceX aerospace company launched 143 spacecraft into space on Sunday, a new…

5 years ago

COVID variant can elude immune responses triggered by vaccines

Our Correspondent Evidence is growing that some coronavirus variants could evade immune responses triggered by vaccines and previous infections. Researchers…

5 years ago

Mystery solved? CIA releases all records on UFOs to public

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has released massive data of the US government’s records on UFOs for over three decades…

5 years ago

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