Tag: Science

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…

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…

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 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…

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…

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 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…

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…

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 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…