By VICE News A landmark discovery about the genetic make-up of tumors means scientists believe they have now found a way to get the human immune system to recognize cancer as an enemy and attack it. A team of scientists…
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NASA astronaut Scott Kelly is back on Earth after a year
Kelly and Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Sergey Volkov landed late Monday night in the Kazakhstan desert, NASA and Russian mission control said. Kelly could be seen pumping his fist and giving a thumbs up after being hoisted from the…
Sher-e-Bangla Agri University develops two new vegetables
The Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University (SAU), Dhaka has been conducting research to develop, introduce new crops and crop varieties which are suitable for growing in Bangladesh and which are capable of ensuring better return to the farmers and to meeting people’s…
NASA found fracture in Pluto’s moon
Images from the New Horizon space probe suggest that Pluto’s moon Charon once had a sub-surface ocean that has since frozen and expanded, causing the surface to stretch and fracture, NASA said Friday.Charon’s surface was photographed by the New Horizons’s…
Astronomers record rotation of cloudy ‘super-Jupiter’
In a maiden attempt to decode the rotation of a massive exoplanet, astronomers using Hubble Space Telescope have measured the rotation rate of a cloudy “super-Jupiter” by observing the varied brightness in its atmosphere.The planet called 2M1207b is about four…
Hobbits were not humans
Diminutive humans that died out on an Indonesian island some 15,000 years ago were not Homo sapiens but a different species, according to a study published Monday that dives into a fierce anthropological debate.Fossils of Homo floresiensis — dubbed “the…
New clues about formation of the moon
It’s the only world besides Earth that man has set foot on. But we still don’t know exactly how it got there.Now, rocks brought back by the Apollo astronauts in the late ’60s and early ’70s are providing new clues…
Flower in space
Remember how in the Hollywood film The Martian, Matt Damon’s character Mark Watney grows potatoes on Mars to survive on the Red Planet? While that’s still a sci-fi achievement, here’s a bit of real life news that’ll leave you quite…
Japanese astronomers discovers Black hole in Milky way
A team of Japanese astronomers has discovered an enigmatic gas cloud just 200 light years away from the centre of the Milky Way that can be the possible missing link in the black hole evolution.This may be the first detection…
Ancient giant crocodile discovered in Sahara
Paleontologists searching far and wide in Tunisia made a discovery of massive proportions: the world’s largest sea-dwelling crocodile, previously unknown to science, The Washington Post newspaper reports.This prehistoric crocodile is believed to have measured more than 30 feet long and…
NASA finds 100 new alien planets
NASA’s planet-hunting revamped Kepler mission has found more than 100 confirmed planets orbiting other stars. The information about the planets, some of which are very different from what the spacecraft observed during its original mission, was shared by University of…
Solar-powered hearing aids in Brazil
Over 360 million people around the world suffer from disabling hearing loss, with the majority living in low and middle-income countries. And while hearing aids can make a big difference, the reality is that globally only 10 percent of those…
‘Crash rates for self-driving cars less than conventional car’
By David Shepardson Washington – Self-driving cars are involved in fewer crashes on average than vehicles with a driver behind the wheel, a study released on Friday by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute shows. The study was commissioned by Alphabet…
China begins 5G research
China’s ministry of industry and information technology (MIIT) began to research and test 5G technology with the aim of commercialising it by 2020, the media reported.”The purpose of the research and test is to support the formulation of global 5G…
Why real King Kong became extinct
The largest ape to roam Earth died out 100,000 years ago because it failed to tuck into savannah grass after climate change hit its preferred diet of forest fruit, scientists suggest.Gigantopithecus — the closest Nature ever came to producing a…
New elements in Periodic Table
International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) has formally added four new chemical elements to the periodic table, report the BBC and the Guardian.Discovered by scientists in Japan, Russia and America, elements 113, 115, 117 and 118 have finally…
Pre-historic animal shell found in Argentina
A passer-by on Christmas Day found a meter-long shell on a riverbank in Argentina which may be from a glyptodont, a prehistoric kind of giant armadillo, experts said Tuesday.A local man thought the black scaly shell was a dinosaur egg…
Monkeys knew to sing
Ancient monkeys used auditory cues similar to humans to distinguish between low and high sound notes, say researchers, adding that pitch perception may have evolved more than 40 million years ago to enable vocal communication and song-like vocalisations.Pitch perception is…
Hydra can live forever
Is there a creature that can defeat death? Yes, says new research that confirmed that the tiny hydra – a centimetre-long polyp that inhabits fresh water all over the world – does not show any sign of deteriorating with age…
Space robots trained with virtual reality
NASA is training space robots with Virtual Reality (VR) where the operators are using Sony’s PlayStation VR to control a “humanoid” in the space environment.Part of “Mighty Morphenaut” project, the PlayStation VR lets the operator make decisions by taking into…
Paris climate deal paves way for further science
Paris – A deal to reduce global emissions and help the world adapt to climate change was signed in Paris on 12 December — with earlier concerns that science would be ignored allayed by new promises. The agreement, signed by…
N.Korea criticises anthrax experiment by USFK
Ha-young Choi Pyongyang’s state-run Rodong Sinmun newspaper on Monday criticized use of anthrax in South Korea, which was revealed by a joint ROK-U.S. joint working group’s (JWG) investigation last Thursday. Repeating its allegations of biological warfare during the Korean War,…
Okayama University innovate new technique to remove of strontium from waste water
International Desk Toshiro Ono and colleagues at Okayama University have developed an effective system for removing strontium 90 from aqueous solution based on the hydroxyapatite (HAP) column procedure. The researchers are hopeful that their HAP column technique could be useful…
‘Sail-backed’ dinosaur roamed in Spain
Along a lush river delta in what is now northeastern Spain, a herd of dinosaurs munched on ferns and conifers similar to modern-day cypresses 125 million years ago.These creatures stood out from the others in this Cretaceous Period landscape by…
Why Neanderthals’ faces different than us
The Neanderthals, who appeared about 200,000 years ago, are quite distinct from modern humans in the manner in which their faces grow, finds a new study.The results add to an old but important debate concerning the separation of these two…
NASA shares more close up photos of Pluto
The US space agency has released a series of sharp Pluto snapshots, billing them as the best close-ups of the dwarf planet we may see for decades.On July 14, NASA’s New Horizons became the first spacecraft to pass by Pluto,…
Scientists found the key to painless life
Scientists at University College London (UCL) have found the recipe for painlessness in a study that used genetically modified mice to show a channel responsible for allowing pain signals to pass along nerve cell membranes is vital to feel agony.In…
NASA launches US cargo ship on Sunday
High winds in Florida have pushed to Sunday Orbital ATK’s launch of its unmanned Cygnus cargo ship to the International Space Station, the latest in a series of delays due to weather.The next launch bid will begin at 4:44 pm…
Japanese scientist stripped of doctorate
A Japanese university has revoked a doctoral degree awarded to a young researcher embroiled in a scandal that has rocked the scientific establishment.Haruko Obokata, 32, drew intense media scrutiny after failing to reproduce the results of what was once billed…
Astronomers see planet still growing
Astronomers have taken the first images of a planet still in formation, a discovery expected to shed light on how giant planets manage to beef up early in their lives, research published on Wednesday showed.Astronomers used a telescope in Arizona…