Science

ATLANTA: For the first time, scientists filmed the process of a human white blood cell dying. The video captured each...

NASA collaborates with German Aerospace Center to reduce aircraft noise

LONDON: NASA has partnered with the German Aerospace Center (DLR) to help reduce aircraft noise and advance research into rotorcraft....

Administrator Bolden signs agreements to advance NASA’s journey to Mars

WASHINGTON: NASA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) have signed agreements to work together to reduce aircraft noise and advance...

NASA’s Hubble Telescope detects stratosphere on distant blazing hot exoplanet

NEW YORK: Stratosphere has been discovered on a distant blazing-hot exoplanet dubbed WASP-33b by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope – a...

Indonesians refuse to leave volcano area despite warnings of impending eruption

LUSAKA: Thousands of villagers are refusing to leave their homes on the slopes of one of Indonesia's most volatile volcanoes...

Bioengineers invent a way to harvest energy from water evaporating

LONDON: Bioengineers have invented the world’s first engine that runs on energy created from the process of natural water evaporation...

UC Davis Department of Entomology participates in bee study

PARIS: Wild bee diversity is declining worldwide at unprecedented rates, and steps must be taken to conserve them — and...

Dry climate kept plant eating dinosaurs away from tropics

MALI: An unpredictable, yet scorching and dry climate kept large, grass-eating dinosaurs out of the tropics for some 30 million...

Why we can’t recall the exact colour we saw

BRENT: Ever came across a situation wherein you were asked to recollect the colours you had seen in a particular...

Meteorites hold clue to methane mystery

MEXICO: Scientists have discovered methane hidden in Martian meteorites, which could hint that the elusive gas, which on Earth is...

There’s a big difference between Earth& Saturn

HONG KONG: There are a lot of big differences between Earth and Saturn, including size, chemistry, temperature, distance from the...

Researchers create world’s thinnest light bulb from graphene

WASHINGTON: Researchers have created the world's thinnest light bulb using graphene, an atomically thin and perfectly crystalline form of carbon,...

Pluto just 4 weeks, 20m miles away for spacecraft

NEW YORK: NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is at Pluto's doorstep, following an incredible journey of nine years and 4.8 billion...

Diseased fish confirm damage to Great Barrier Reef ecosystem, researchers

EUROPE: The kind of muddy waters often seen around the Great Barrier Reef increase disease rates in fish and damage...

Researchers start collect DNA of residents from Normandy in northern France, search of Viking heritage

EUROPE: British scientists searching for evidence of Norse colonisation in the communities of the Cotentin peninsula warn of ‘sensitivities’ over...

Latest image of NASA’s Dawn shows bright patch on dwarf planet Ceres

LONDON: The latest picture released by the science team for NASA's Dawn mission shows a bright patch on the dwarf...

Smoking responsible for lung cancer, study

BRENT: Cigarette smoking is responsible for at least 345,962 cancer deaths in the U.S. each year, according to a new...

Researchers capture how human white blood cells die

LONDON: In a first, researchers at La Trobe Institute of Molecular Science have managed to capture the complex stages of...

World experience 1 minute which have 61 seconds

WASHINGTON: Well at 2359 Greenwich Mean Time on June 30, or 9.59am AEST on July 1, the world will experience...

National Wildlife protects 1,074 dusky gopher frog species