Spokesman of the Awami League-led 14-party alliance and Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim said on Tuesday that there would not be any dialogue with BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia. “No dialogue with those killers, razakars and attackers of…
Winds blasted out by the giant black holes found at the centre of galaxies are strong enough to stunt the birth of new stars, astronomers have found. By training two space telescopes on a supermassive black hole with the mass…
Fabíola Ortiz RIO DE JANEIRO- A 24-year-old Brazilian student has created a portable medical lamp that kills antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The inventor, Caio Guimarães, studied electrical engineering at Brazil’s Federal University of Pernambuco. His device consists of a lamp, which emits…
Getting to Mars is never going to be cheap. But a couple of mathematicians have figured out how to shave some significant bucks off the price tag. Rather than fly to the red planet when it’s orbit brings it closest,…
Members of a joint force have rescued three forest officials, who were reputedly kidnapped by miscreants from Harikata of Langadu upazila, from Naniachar of the upazila 19 days after the incident. The three forest officials–conservator Farid Mia, range officer Robiul…
European robot probe Philae has made the first, historic landing on a comet, after descending from its mothership. The landing on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was confirmed at about 1605 GMT. There were cheers and hugs at the control room in Darmstadt,…
Though the emerging possibility of deleting traumatic memories could provide some people relief, the question remains whether it would fundamentally change who they are.
By Rebecca Morelle The chance discovery of a deep-sea “graveyard” is helping scientists to shed light on the fate of dead ocean giants, scientists report.
The ancient Egyptians called it Ra. The ancient Greeks called it Helios. The ancient Mayans called it Kinich Ahau. The ancient Germans called it Sól.
Killer robots will be debated during an informal meeting of experts at the United Nations in Geneva. Two robotics experts, Prof Ronald Arkin and Prof Noel Sharkey, will debate the efficacy and necessity of killer robots. The meeting will be…
Dead men tell no lies, but perhaps dead dinosaurs do. A new dinosaur species found in China and nicknamed “Pinocchio Rex” was a long-snouted cousin of Tyrannosaurus rex.
By Melissa Hogenboom Neuroscience is a fast growing and popular field, but despite advances, when an area of the brain ‘lights up” it does not tell us as much as we’d like about the inner workings of the mind.
By Rebecca Morelle The mystery of a bizarre quacking sound heard in the ocean has finally been solved, scientists report.
Science has often come to the rescue when it comes to the world’s big problems, be it the Green Revolution that helped avoid mass starvation or the small pox vaccine that eradicated the disease.
Participants’ brain scans revealed that artists had increased neural matter in areas relating to fine motor movements and visual imagery.
By Paul Rincon The ocean liner sank on its maiden voyage 102 years ago, with the loss of more than 1,500 lives.
Director general of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) Prof Rolf-Dieter Heur on Monday said he often wonders why Satyendra Nath Bose was not given the Nobel Prize. “Prof Higgs (Peter Higgs) together with Englert (Francois Englert) won the…
By Paul Rincon At the weekend, the satellite-tagged fish, called Lydia, crossed the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, which marks a rough boundary line between east and west.
By James Gallagher The brain of one monkey has been used to control the movements of another, “avatar”, monkey, US scientists report. Brain scans read the master monkey’s mind and were used to electrically stimulate the avatar’s spinal cord, resulting…
Scientists have created a bionic hand which allows the amputee to feel lifelike sensations from their fingers. A Danish man received the hand, which was connected to nerves in his upper arm, following surgery in Italy. Dennis Aabo, who lost…
At least one type of “sixth sense” isn’t real, new research suggests. The new study, detailed Monday (Jan. 13) in the journal PLOS ONE, found that what people perceive as a sixth sense may simply be their vision systems detecting…
Even water tastes sweeter when you’re in love, new research finds.
(ISNS) — Hundreds of millions of years ago, when the ancestors of land animals crawled out of the seas and flopped on a primordial beach they learned quickly that to survive they were going to have to develop new tools…
Dhaka – In another historic feat, renowned animal scientists from Bangladesh and China on Friday formally announced the water buffalo genome sequencing success. Lal Teer Livestock Limited, a Bangladeshi company and Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI), one of the world’s premier…
A deep-sea voyage to drill more than a mile below the ocean floor could solve one of Earth’s long-standing mysteries: how continents form. An oceangoing research vessel, which sets sail in March, will venture to a chain of underwater volcanoes…
Some of the largest beasts in the ancient seas had black skin or scales, new research finds.
Great white sharks can live almost as long as humans — 70 years or more — much longer than scientists previously thought.
By by Joe Rao As 2013 draws to a close, it’s time to look forward to the stargazing highlights of the coming year.
By Stephanie Pappas Cute animals are an Internet genre of their own. But sometimes, Mother Nature’s creations are downright weird.
By Laura Poppick Ants may not seem particularly germaphobic, since they live in bacteria-rich dirt and often eat decaying plants and animals. But some ants have evolved to be quite fastidious sanitizers, regularly bathing themselves in antimicrobial secretions emitted from…