Indonesian authorities are turning to the technique of cloud seeding to try to stop more rain falling in the flood-hit…
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American scientist Frances Arnold, who won the Nobel Prize for chemistry, has retracted her latest paper. Ms Arnold shared the…
Using the SPHERE receiver of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Very Southern Telescope (VLT), astronomers noticed that the asteroid Hygea,…
Astronomers are warning that their view of the Universe could be under threat. From next week, a campaign to launch…
In an important New Year development, Tesla Motors, in partnership with physicists from Canada’s Dalhousie University, filed a patent on…
Five thousand and seven hundred years ago, “Lola,” a blue-eyed woman with dark skin and hair, chewed on a slice…
Deep under its frozen primordial oceans, Saturn’s moon Enceladus may conceal the building blocks for life, according to recent research.…
Is Earth under the watchful eye of “lurking” extraterrestrial spy probes? One US physicist argues that while it’s a distant…
The hypothetical Planet Nine, assumed to be lurking somewhere in the outskirts of our solar system, may not be a…
Astronomers have discovered a giant planet that, they say, should not exist, according to current theories. The Jupiter-like world is…
500 scientists and eminent persons have made a public declaration to the UN stating that there is no climate emergency.…
Scientists say one of the US space agency’s (Nasa) new Earth observers is going to have a transformative impact in…
Eleanor G. Rieffel NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, California Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor Google AI Quantum…
China’s Yutu-2 lunar rover has beamed back more images of the “colored mysterious substance” it discovered in a small crater…
It’s being described as the biggest Arctic science expedition of all time. The German Research Vessel Polarstern is about to…
Scientists have stumbled across the blackest material ever seen, which absorbs 99.995 percent of light and makes the previously known…
Astronomers have detected water vapour in the atmosphere of a planet known as K2-18 b, which is twice the size…
Break out the party hats. Astronomers have all but confirmed that the second known interstellar object is currently whizzing through…