Science
Haiti shipwreck not Colombus’ Santa Maria: UNESCO
A report from the UN cultural agency released Monday concludes that a shipwreck found off northern Haiti could not be the Santa Maria, the lost flagship...
GPS in your head: Brain cell researchers win 2014 Nobel Prize in medicine
American-British scientist John O’Keefe and Norwegians May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser won the 2014 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine for discoveries...
Tall tale: scientists unravel the genetics of human height
It’s no secret that if your dad is tall and your mother is tall, you are probably going to be tall.
Scientists develop world’s first ‘solar battery’
Scientists have recently developed world’s first ‘solar battery’ that runs on light and air.
Close encounters of a third kind: Canada helps in search for extraterrestrials
Canada is contributing to create a new space telescope that one scientist says will up the search for extraterrestrial life.
Scientists uncover 14,300-year-old human faeces in Oregon cave
Archaeologists have found the earliest DNA evidence of human habitation in North America at a cave in Oregon’s high desert.
Danish scientists create crystal to enable breathing under water
Bulky oxygen tanks and face masks could soon no longer be needed to be able to breathe underwater, thanks to the creation of the “Aquaman Crystal”...
Scientists discover way to create oxygen without using plants
Earth’s atmosphere wasn’t always full of life-giving oxygen — it was once a choking mixture of carbon dioxide and other gases, more like...
Sensitive jaws: Sharks have personalities too - apparently
Researchers recorded the social interactions of 10 groups of juvenile catsharks in captivity in three different habitat types, all of which differed in...
35,000 walruses mass on Alaska beach ‘due to climate change’
At least 35,000 walruses have beached themselves on a remote Alaskan coastline in a phenomenon blamed on the melting of arctic ice due to climate change,...
Once the world’s fourth biggest lake, Aral Sea now almost completely dry
The Aral Sea, once the fourth-largest lake in the world, is nearly gone. Satellite images released by NASA this week show half of the inland lake that...
World has lost 50% of its wildlife in the past 40 years, say scientists
Wildlife populations around the world have more than halved in just four decades in the face of unsustainable human consumption, a report has warned.
'Space bubbles' may have doomed key Afghanistan war mission
"Space bubbles" caused a communication blackout that led to a U.S. soldier being killed in Afghanistan in the 2002 battle Operation Anaconda, a study has...
Forty winks 20,000 leagues under the sea: Human sleep patterns evolved in oceans?
The cells that control our rhythms of sleep and wakefulness may have first evolved in the ocean - hundreds of millions of years ago - in response to pressure...
Swiss pilots will fly a solar plane around the world from Abu Dhabi
The first solar-powered flight around the world will take off from and touch down in Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates, officials announced...
Beating China, India may have changed the space race
India’s low-cost mission to Mars successfully entered the red planet’s orbit on Wednesday, crowning what Prime Minister Narendra Modi said...
India makes history with its successful maiden Mars mission
Just days after a NASA spacecraft reached the Red Planet, India has made history by successfully putting a satellite into orbit around Mars on its first...
Super schnozzle: Dinosaur with exceptionally large nose discovered
The remains of a big-nosed dinosaur that stalked the Earth some 75 million years ago, possibly luring mates with its beauty of a schnozzle, have been discovered...
NASA robotic probe enters Mars orbit
A NASA robotic spacecraft has ended an epic 10-month to enter into orbit around Mars and begin a hunt for the planet’s lost water.
SpaceX Falcon rocket blasts off from Florida
An unmanned Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Sunday to deliver a cargo ship to the International Space Station...
Astronauts getting 3-D printer delivered to space station
NASA is sending a 3-D printer to the International Space Station in hopes that astronauts will be able to one day fix their spacecraft by cranking out...
Finding Nemo is real: Clownfish do make epic sea journeys, study finds
In the movie “Finding Nemo,” a father clownfish swims across the ocean to find the son he lost, but in reality, it’s the babies that...
Hubble discovers supermassive black hole
Astronomers have found an unlikely object in an improbable place: a monster black hole lurking inside one of the tiniest galaxies ever known.
'Venus Zone' that may help search for Earth-like alien worlds is discovered
Exoplanet hunters have just made it easier to identify alien Venuses, in the hopes that doing so will lead to the discovery of more alien Earths.
Space cabs: Boeing, SpaceX to ferry astronauts to space station
Boeing Co. and Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) will split as much as $6.8 billion in federal funding to help the U.S.
Forensic sleuths sketch Richard III’s brutal end
England’s King Richard III might well have lost his kingdom for a horse. The reviled king suffered nearly a dozen injuries on the battlefield, but...
Scientists given rare glimpse of 350-kilo colossal squid
Excited scientists have hailed the discovery of a female colossal squid weighing an estimated 350 kilograms (770 lbs) and thought to be only the second...
Rosetta Probe targets first-ever comet landing 4 billion miles from Earth
The European Space Agency (ESA) released a colourful map on Monday that shows the different regions of the 2.5-mile-long (4 kilometre) ice comet known...
Wild Chinese sturgeon on brink of extinction
The wild Chinese sturgeon, which is thought to have existed for more than 140 million years, is at risk of extinction after none of the rare fish were...
Ancient flying reptile named after ‘Avatar’ creature
Some of the most visually stunning sequences from director James Cameron’s blockbuster movie “Avatar” involved graceful flying creatures...
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