Science

FRANCE: Astronomy buffs in Taiwan can see on Friday a rare "blue moon," which refers to the appearance of a...

World will get just 12 hours warning if sun erupts

NEW YORK: The world will get just 12 hours warning if a huge explosion of high energy particles from the...

We can get vitamin B3 from space

LONDON: Vitamin B3 found on Earth might have been made in space and delivered to Earth on meteorites, according to...

Conservationists re-establish local colony of oyster in New Jersey

WASHINGTON: A team of animal conservationists have begun re-establishing the local colony of oyster in New Jersey by releasing more...

Chimpanzees use clay to meet their nutritional requirements, scientists say

MALI: Chimpanzees in Ugandan forests are turning to clay to meet their nutritional requirements, says a study published in the...

Undergraduates discover 2 most dense galaxies

HONG KONG: Astronomy undergraduates Michael Sandoval and Richard Vo from San Jose University have stumbled upon two of the most...

Rosetta’s Philae lander serves up cometary surprises after a bounce

MEXICO: Scientists with the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission may have had a scare when the Philae lander bounced off...

560,000-year-old adult tooth finds by French student

CANADA: A tooth dating from 560,000 years before our own time has been discovered in France, providing new insights into...

Astronomers discover 1st aurora beyond solar system

LONDON: Astronomers have discovered the first aurora ever seen in an object beyond our Solar System. The aurora -- similar...

Astronomers find a planetary system with three super-earths

PARIS: Astronomers said on Thursday they had found a planetary system with three super-earths orbiting a bright, dwarf star —...

Space considers one of the sources of vitamin B3

LONDON: Vitamin B3 found on Earth might have been made in space and delivered to Earth on meteorites, according to...

Cultivation of Stevia plant can help to boost agri economy

RAWALPINDI: : Cultivation of Steva plant will help boost agriculture economy and improve living standard of the farmers community, said...

Tech experts demand to ban killer robots

LONDON: Over a 1,000 stalwarts from the world of robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) including icons like Stephen Hawking, technologist...

New discovered galaxy two hundred times smaller than our Milky Way

CANADA: Imagine seeing a million stars dazzling the night sky instead of a few thousand that we see from Earth....

Mystery of pendulum clocks finally solved

LONDON: After more than three centuries of invention of pendulum clocks, scientists have finally solved the mystery behind pendulums. There...

‘Carbon sink’ detected underneath world’s deserts

BRENT: Scientists have been searching for a place on land where the additional carbon is being stored – the so-called...

Chemical element lithium finds for 1st time in material ejected by a nova

LONDON: The chemical element lithium has been found for the first time in material ejected by a nova. Observations of...

NASA researchers flow a light plane into aircraft black boxes

PARIS: NASA researchers have flown a light plane into the ground in a test of aircraft black boxes. The most...

African golden jackal genetically different from other European jackal species, study

MEXICO: The African golden jackal, it turns out, may be a genetically distinct species when compared against the golden jackals...

Fly thought to be extinct for 150 years find in Devon