Science

Lost in space: Two Galileo satellites fail to reach correct orbit
Two European Galileo satellites launched as part of a navigation system designed to rival GPS have failed to locate their intended orbit, launch firm Arianespace...
Baby corals and fish can smell their way to the best home, study finds
Young corals and fish in the Pacific Ocean can smell a bad neighborhood. When looking for a place to settle down, these animals use chemical cues to avoid...
Spiders get bigger and breed more when living in the city, study finds
The growth of cities is causing certain species of spider to get bigger and reproduce faster, according to a new study.
Sniffing out TB: African giant pouched rats trained to detect disease
First it was landmines, now it’s tuberculosis. APOPO, the Belgian nonprofit organisation that trained rats to detect landmines, is now training them...
Peek into brain shows how kids learn math skills
Sometime during elementary school, you quit counting your fingers and just knew the answer.
Asteroid may ‘wipe out human life’ – in 867 years’ time
Humanity could be wiped out by a massive asteroid that is hurtling towards earth at a speed of around 38,000 miles an hour, scientists have warned.
Ebola puts focus on drugs made in tobacco plants
It’s an eye-catching angle in the story of an experimental treatment for Ebola: The drug comes from tobacco plants that were turned into living pharmaceutical...
We have none but ourselves to blame for most of melting glaciers
More than two-thirds of the recent rapid melting of the world’s glaciers can be blamed on humans, a new study finds.
Tibet’s glaciers at their warmest in 2,000 years
The Tibetan plateau, whose glaciers supply water to hundreds of millions of people in Asia, were warmer over the past 50 years than at any stage in the...
Flock of ancient ‘butterfly headed’ flying reptiles discovered
An ancient flying reptile with a bizarre, butterfly-like head has been unearthed in Brazil.
Iranian becomes first woman to win prestigious ‘Nobel Prize of maths’
An Iranian-born mathematician has become the first woman to win a prestigious Fields Medal, widely viewed as the Nobel Prize of mathematics.
Greek PM says tomb from era of Alexander the Great found in northern dig
Archaeologists excavating an ancient mound in northern Greece have uncovered what appears to be the entrance to an important tomb from about the end of...
Supermoon lights up sky as stargazers around the world share photos
A “supermoon” lit up the sky as stargazers enjoyed the Perseid meteor shower - one of the year’s most dramatic lunar events.
Spoiler alert: Russian cosmonaut releases first pictures of ‘supermoon’
As stargazers around the world prepare to enjoy the second and biggest of three giant full moons on Sunday night, a dramatic image of the “supermoon”...
Nasa releases video of ‘flying saucer’ which could be used for Mars landing
Footage of a supersonic “flying saucer” has been released by Nasa, as the agency attempts to find a process for landing heavier spacecraft...
Here’s why it’s not so great to have a supermoon and meteor shower together
What’s better than being able to watch a meteor shower? A meteor shower combined with a supermoon perhaps? Unfortunately not.
NASA Mars test called success despite torn chute
NASA engineers insist a test of a vehicle they hope to one day use above Mars achieved most of its objectives despite a parachute that virtually disintegrated...
Astronauts ‘suffer life-threatening sleep deprivation’ on missions
Lack of sleep was one of the many hazards of space travel not explored in the blockbuster movie Gravity.
Transformer minis: Scientists make cheap, fast self-assembling robots
Borrowing from the ancient Japanese art of origami, children’s toys and even a touch of the “Transformers” movies, scientists and engineers...
'We're here!' After 10 years, space probe finally catches up with comet
A probe launched in 2004 to chase a comet billions of kilometres around space has today made contact with Earth after reaching its target.
'We're at the comet': Space probe prepares to beam back pictures to Earth
A probe launched in 2004 to chase a comet billions of miles around space has today made contact with Earth after reaching its target.
'Armageddon'-style comet hunter close to target
A European spacecraft is closing in on a comet it has been tracking for over 10 years in a mission likened to the action film “Armageddon”.
NASA marks 10 years of orbiting Mercury
Because of Mercury’s proximity to the blinding sun, it has eluded even the most powerful telescopes.
Rare whale fossil pulled from California backyard
A search-and-rescue team pulled a rare half-ton whale fossil from a Southern California backyard Friday.
Dinosaurs evolved into birds by ‘shrinking’ over 50 million years
An international team of scientists on Thursday described an extraordinary evolutionary process that unfolded over a period of 50 million years in which...
Elephants have stronger sense of smell than dogs or rats, new study sniffs out
Bomb detection squads may switch from dogs to elephants going by a recent study by Japanese scientists proclaiming the pachyderm as the species with the...
Greatest mom: Deep-sea octopus waits 4.5 years for eggs to hatch
Scientists on Wednesday described how the female of an octopus species that dwells below the sea surface spends about 4.5 years brooding her eggs, protecting...
NASA’s Mars rover Opportunity breaks off-world driving record
The U.S. space agency’s Opportunity rover has now clocked more miles on Mars than any man-made vehicle to reach another celestial body, NASA said.
Were the dinosaurs wiped out by a colossal case of bad luck?
The space rock that wiped out most of the dinosaurs may have had a colossal case of bad timing.
Scientists sent to solve ‘end-of-the-world’ Russian crater mystery
A vast crater discovered in a remote region of Siberia known to locals as “the end of the world” is causing a sensation in Russia, with a group...

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