Science

LONDON: It turns out that Jupiter may be more than just an enormous ball of gas spinning a few hundred...

NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope discovers Solar System with 5 Earth-sized Vulcan Planets

HONG KONG: NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has discovered a new solar system roughly 117 light-years from Earth that plays host...

Innovation in an age of global science commentary

LONDON: Scientific research is dramatically more global in its practice and impact than it was just a decade ago. Whether...

Western Australia’s dolphin dead

SYDNEY: At least one dolphin a week is being killed in trawl nets in northern Western Australia and the death...

Jupiter may have destroyed newborn planets in early Solar System: Study

A new study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests that Jupiter may have destroyed newborn...

1,000-metre wide asteroid on near-collision course with Earth

NASA revealed that a 1,000-metre wide asteroid will make a relatively close but harmless pass by Earth on Friday. It...

More than 1,800 marine turtles died last year

KARACHI: An interview-based survey whose findings were shared during the proceedings of a regional symposium on Tuesday showed a massive...

NASA’s MAVEN observes mysterious dust cloud, aurora around Mars

FRANCE: The bat-winged MAVEN spacecraft has now been in orbit for six months, dipping in and out of the Red...

Scientists unearth 200m year old salamander fossils

CANADA: Paleontologists from the University of Edinburgh found flossils of a so-called "super salamander" in southern Portugal, at a site...

NASA’s Curiosity rover found nitrogen on Mars

MEXICO: NASA’s Curiosity rover has found nitrogen on the surface of Mars, a significant discovery that adds to evidence the...

Gulf stream at its lowest level in 1,000 years

LONDON:The Atlantic “overturning” is a current which brings warm water north and cold water south. This ocean current affects weather...

Street vision of sea floor may help save coral reefs

The destruction of coral reefs is being mapped and the National History Museum is asking pioneers of underwater photography to...

Jupiter may be behind mysterious ‘gaping hole’ in our 4.6 billion yrs old solar system

LONDON: While our Solar System is estimated to be 4.6 billion years old, just what was happening during all that...

NASA’s new solar electric ion engine better for space

bySana Anwar

BRENT: NASA spacecraft Dawn is the first of its kind to go on a space mission using an electric ion...

Global demand for water to overtake its supply by 2050

WASHINGTON: Population growth could cause global demand for water to outpace supply by mid-century if current levels of consumption continue,...

40 teams of high school gather at GVSU for FIRST Robotics competition

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ALLENDALE: More than 40 teams of high school students are pitting their robot creations against each other in the FIRST...

Scientists uncover 231 million old 9ft-long ‘Carolina Butcher’ crocodile that ruled world before dinosaurs

PARIS: A newly discovered crocodile ancestor that lived on land and walked on two legs may have been a top...

Scientific paper gives global warming alarmists ‘one helluva beating’

LONDON: A new scientific paper has driven yet another nail into the coffin of Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming theory. The...

NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft finds for 1st time mysterious Martian dust cloud, aurora lights near Martian atmosphere

PARIS: In the latest surprising discovery, NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft has for the first time observed...

China plans to send 40 spacecraft into orbit this year