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Science
A large cockroach thought extinct since the 1930s was just rediscovered on a small island in Australia
In 1887, Australian Museum scientists undertook a pioneering expedition to Lord...
Bill Gates says Middle East can be part of the solution in green energy
Billionaire philanthropist, Bill Gates, has backed the Middle East to be "part of...
Nobel prize awarded for ‘click chemistry’ – an environmentally friendly method of building molecules
The 2022 Nobel prize for Chemistry has been awarded to a trio for developing click...
Scientists create proteins that do not exist in nature and that mimic the immunoglobulins of antibodies
A team of researchers, led by Enrique Marcos, F. Xavier Gomis Rüth and David Baker,...
Nobel prize: physicists share prize for insights into the spooky world of quantum mechanics
The 2022 Nobel prize for physics has been awarded to a trio of scientists for pioneering...
NIVD, a startup deeptech in vitro nanodiagnostics, sets up at the Barcelona Science Park
NIVD, a startup that specialises in developing nanosensors for early diagnostics,...
Earth harbours 20,000,000,000,000,000 ants – and they weigh more than wild birds and mammals combined
Have you ever wondered exactly how many ants live on Earth? Possibly not, but it’s...
Seahorse fathers give birth in a unique way, new research shows
In seahorses and pipefish, it is the male that gets pregnant and gives birth. Seahorse...
Mars is littered with 15,694 pounds of human trash from 50 years of robotic exploration
People have been exploring the surface of Mars for over 50 years
NASA is crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid to test a plan that could one day save Earth from catastrophe
On Sept. 26, 2022, NASA plans to change an asteroid’s orbit
Saudi mission on SpaceX capsule to include first female Arab astronaut
Saudi Arabia's mission to the International Space Station next year aboard a SpaceX...
Can we really deflect an asteroid by crashing into it? Nobody knows, but we are excited to try
Nasa’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (Dart) spacecraft is designed to be a one...
Six recent discoveries that have changed how we think about human origins
Scientific study of human evolution historically reassured us of a comforting order...
Humans evolved with their microbiomes – like genes, your gut microbes pass from one generation to the next
When the first humans moved out of Africa, they carried their gut microbes with...
Should we really believe scientific facts will last forever when history is full of revolutions in thinking?
Astronomers once believed the Sun revolved around the Earth. In the 19th century,...