A huge explosion has struck an ammunition depot at a military firing range in southern Russia. The Defense Ministry said a rocket engine caught fire. Around 600 people have been evacuated. The incident took place at Ashuluk testing range near…
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Blue Origin has fourth successful rocket booster landing
US space firm Blue Origin conducted a successful fourth test Sunday of its reusable New Shepard rocket, which dropped back to Earth for a flawless upright landing seen on a live webcast. Blue Origin, the space travel company founded by…
How science is putting a new face on crime solving
Advances in forensics are giving us an unprecedented ability to solve cases—and exposing mistakes in some investigations. A roadside memorial marks where Sierra Bouzigard’s body was found seven years ago in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana. There were no witnesses to the…
Groundbreaking discovery of organic molecule in space
Researchers have found an organic molecule essential to biology in interstellar space for the first time, announced experts Tuesday, a discovery that could help solve a long-time mystery. Like humans, the organic molecules that make up the universe can lean…
Scientists use underwater robots to study India’s monsoon
Scientists from Britain and India will release underwater robots into the Bay of Bengal in a bid to more accurately predict the Indian monsoon critical to millions of farmers, they said Tuesday. Researchers will also fly a plane packed with…
Musk explains his ‘cargo route’ to Mars
SpaceX chief Elon Musk shed light Saturday on his new plan to send an unmanned spaceship to Mars as early as 2018, as part of his quest to someday colonize the Red Planet. Musk, the Internet entrepreneur who cofounded of…
Sun-powered Solar Impulse 2 aircraft sets off for New York
The Solar Impulse 2 aircraft set off late Friday from Pennsylvania, aiming for New York and a fly-over of the Statue of Liberty in the latest leg of its bid to circle the globe using only solar power. The aircraft,…
Scientists grow human organs for transplant inside pigs
Scientists in the United States are trying to grow human organs inside pigs.They have injected human stem cells into pig embryos to produce human-pig embryos known as chimeras.The embryos are part of research aimed at overcoming the worldwide shortage of…
US to establish lab network for combating ‘superbugs’
US authorities said Tuesday they are establishing a network of labs that can respond quickly to antibiotic-resistant “superbugs,” following America’s first human case of a dangerous strain of E. coli. The announcement by the US Centers for Disease Control and…
Are flying robots the perfect co-workers?
The year is 2020. A group of warehouse workers are locking up for the weekend. As the lights go off, a swarm of buzzing drones fly into the darkness. Over the coming days, they will zoom up and down the…
NASA successfully inflates new space station room
Cape Canveral (AP/UNB) — NASA successfully inflated a new experimental room at the International Space Station on Saturday, producing the world’s first pump-it-up compartment for astronauts. The operation took much longer than expected, stretching over three days in all. But…
Ministry to promote new engineers’ innovative ideas: Nasrul
The Power and Energy Ministry will promote innovative ideas of young engineering students through the ‘Energy Research Council’, a newly set up research body of the ministry. State Minister for Power and Energy Nasrul Hamid on Tuesday announced this while…
World’s oldest space pebbles found in Australia
The tiny meteorites slammed into Earth about 2.7 billion years ago and captured clues to the planet’s early atmosphere. A microscope image shows one of the tiny 2.7-billion-year-old meteorites. About 2.7 billion years ago, tiny meteorites the size of sand…
Russia’s brand new cosmodrome launches first-ever rocket
Russia’s new Vostochny Cosmodrome has conducted its first space launch on Thursday. A Soyuz rocket boosted three scientific and distance viewing satellites into orbit. The lift-off took place at 5:01am Moscow time (2:01am GMT) and some 8 minutes 44 seconds…
Inquiry launched as suspected drone strikes passenger jet in London
London (CNN)British police and government aviation investigators have launched inquiries after a passenger jet was struck by what was believed to be a drone as it approached a London airport Sunday. British Airways Flight BA727 from Geneva, Switzerland, was coming…
Stephen Hawking’s plan to blast a tiny ship to another star
By Ryan Faith This week, on the 55th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s first-ever manned spaceflight, Russian internet entrepreneur Yuri Milner and British physicist Stephen Hawking announced a project aimed to send a spacecraft to another star. With lasers! Breakthrough Starshot,…
Buzz Aldrin plans permanent settlement on Mars
Buzz Aldrin was the second man to walk on the Moon. Now the Nasa veteran, and trained engineer, is setting his sights on another part of our Solar System – Mars. By Sue Nelson 11 April 2016 Buzz Aldrin’s passion…
Physicists just discovered a new state of matter called ‘quantum spin liquid’
Researchers with the University of Cambridge say they have the first real evidence of a new state of matter, some 40 years after it was first theorized. Known as “quantum spin liquid,” the matter states causes normally unbreakable electrons to…
Modern ‘novo theater’ (planetorium) to be built in Ctg
Chittagong Correspondent Minister for Housing and Public Works Engineer Mosharraf Hossain yesterday said that a modern Novo Theater will be established in the port city Chittagong using the latest technology and ultramodern architectural design at a cost of TK 250…
See Jupiter take one for the solar system
On March 17 the gas giant planet was pummeled by a speeding space rock, and backyard skywatchers happened to capture the cosmic violence at the moment of impact. The sighting is the latest in a rash of impacts seen on…
Synthetic bug given ‘fewest genes’
Scientists have taken another step in their quest to understand the bare genetic essentials of life.A team led by US research entrepreneur Craig Venter has created a semi-synthetic, functioning bacterium in the lab that has fewer than 500 genes.This minimal…
NASA cargo ship reaches space station
An unmanned cargo ship packed with science experiment materials plus food, water and clothes successfully docked at the International Space Station on Saturday, NASA partner Orbital ATK said.The cargo ship, Cygnus, which blasted off Tuesday on the resupply run, was…
NASA cargo ship reaches space station
An unmanned cargo ship packed with science experiment materials plus food, water and clothes successfully docked at the International Space Station on Saturday, NASA partner Orbital ATK said.The cargo ship, Cygnus, which blasted off Tuesday on the resupply run, was…
Fish-like object found on Mars
A fish-shaped object has been found in an ocean on Mars even bigger than the Arctic Ocean on Earth, seen in an photograph sent by NASA.NASA-shared raw image sent by the Curiosity rover shows an aquatic life on the Red…
Moon once spun on a different axis
Telltale patches of water ice on opposite ends of the Moon reveal that Earth’s orbiting companion once spun on a different axis, according to a study released Wednesday.The six-degree tilt, which happened several billion years ago, was likely caused by…
Ancient scrolls give up their secrets
Metallic ink was used to inscribe scrolls regarded as an archaeological wonder, according to scientists.The discovery pushes back the date for the first use of metallic ink by several centuries.The Herculaneum scrolls were buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius…
Bear bone discovery re-writes human history
Analysis of a bear bone found in an Irish cave has provided evidence of human existence in Ireland 2,500 years earlier than previously thought, academics announced Sunday.For decades, the earliest evidence of human life in Ireland dated from 8,000 BC.But…
Magnetic field helped life on Earth
Not just water and oxygen, life thrived on early Earth thanks to another necessary ingredient: the presence of a protective magnetic field.A new study of the young, Sun-like star Kappa Ceti has found that magnetic field plays a key role…
Sun writhes with magnetic field lines
A dazzling new image depicts the sun’s many magnetic field lines, which snake all around Earth’s star but are densest near sunspots. These darker and slightly cooler regions on the surface are where solar flares and huge eruptions of plasma…
Google Maps’ bubbles to show upcoming turns
Google Maps v9, which has been in Google Play for a while, has had the ability to show heads-up bubbles announcing upcoming turns and street or exit names while in navigation mode. The feature was previously only available to a…