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Climate change: Flooding caused by global warming ‘to put one billion people at risk by 2060’
LONDON: More than a billion people will be at risk from flooding caused by climate change in just a few...
Paris climate agreement has ‘failed’ poor countries, report says
PARIS: The international climate deal agreed in Paris has “failed to include meaningful mechanisms” to guarantee financial support for poorer...
Curiosity measures seasonal patterns in Mars atmosphere
WASHINGTON: The local atmosphere in Mars is clear in winter, dustier in spring and summer, and windy in autumn, show...
IBM CREATES A MOLECULE THAT COULD DESTROY ALL VIRUSES
WASHINGTON: Finding a cure for viruses like Ebola, Zika, or even the flu is a challenging task. Viruses are vastly...
Global warming exerts double impact on Arctic migrating birds
WASHINGTON: Red knots, a migrating bird species able to fly about 5,000 kilometers non-stop, are becoming smaller as temperatures warm...
A huge unnamed dwarf planet, almost the size of Pluto, has been hiding in our solar system
NEW YORK: In a universe full of planets, 2007 OR10 is something special. It’s big, just slightly smaller than the...
EA addresses rumors of upcoming Xbox One, PS4 upgrades
CALIFORNIA: Electronic Arts held its earnings call for the fourth quarter of its fiscal year 2016 yesterday, and shared its...
Boeing falls behind SpaceX in next space race
LONDON: Boeing just fell behind SpaceX in the race to be the first private company to carry U.S. astronauts to...
First full-scale demonstration of hyperloop technology
Today, in the desert outside Las Vegas, a start-up called Hyperloop One performed the world's first full-scale test of hyperloop...
Star has four mini-Neptunes orbiting in lock step
SAN FRANCISCO: Researchers at two U.S. universities have found that a four-planet system observed several years ago by the Kepler...
Fossilised space dust from 2.7 billion years ago holds surprise about Earth’s ancient atmosphere
LONDON: Each year, more than 3,000 tonnes of space dust fails to burn up in our planet’s atmosphere and falls...
Micron starts mass producing GDDR5X memory ahead of schedule
IDAHO: Micron is a step or two ahead of where it thought it would be at this point. Back in...
Astronomers find more than 1,000 new planets
WASHINGTON: This week astronomers using NASA’s Kepler space telescope announced that the planet-hunting spacecraft had increased its catalogue by an...
Over 20% of world plants face extinction
LONDON: Modern civilization has not been kind to the world's flora. More than 20 percent of the plants known to...
China builds world’s largest radio telescope in search for aliens
GUIYANG: China has almost finished building the world’s largest radio telescope (FAST) and will soon start the test operation phase...
Mercury a black dot as it crosses face of sun
CAPE CANAVERAL: For the first time in 10 years, Mercury passed directly between the earth and sun on Monday, resembling...
Five Pacific islands lost to rising seas as climate change hits
LONDON: Five tiny Pacific islands have disappeared due to rising seas and erosion, a discovery thought to be the first...
Move over, LG G5, Motorola’s next Moto X may go modular
SEOUL: There's allegedly more to that newly leaked all-metal Moto X 2016 design than we first thought, and it's good...
New $600 Nvidia GTX card announced, faster than Titan X
CALIFORNIA: Chipmaker announces the GTX 1080, which replaces the company's previous top-of-the-line cared with more performance. Tonight during a special...
China Exclusive: Chinese archaeologists test DNA from bones of ancient marquis
NANCHANG: Archaeologists are using bones unearthed from the 2,000-year-old tomb of Haihunhou, the Marquis of Haihun, to conduct DNA analysis....
