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Coronavirus has disrupted everyday life throughout the world through travel bans, flight restrictions and the cancellation of sporting and cultural events. More than 60 million Italians have been banned from…
The zero-emissions option of hydrogen fuel holds a lot of promise for reducing our reliance on fossil fuels – if only we could find a way to produce it cheaply…
TOTO is surrounded by islands, reefs and shoals. This helps isolate the underwater base from oceanic disturbances, specifically high-ambient noise. The area is consequently considered the ideal location for testing…
The find was made in Pilbara, northwest Australia, on a stretch of rock that once laid on the bed of the ocean next to a hydrothermal vent. Within its composition…
The coronavirus outbreak so far has led to more than 3,800 deaths and in excess of 110,000 people infected. Since it was first detected in Wuhan, China, some have made…
Around 4.5 billion years ago, something the size of Mars collided with a newly formed Earth, to colossal effect. This object is not only thought to have fused with Earth…
The official verdict is in. As the red supergiant Betelgeuse once again returns to normal brightness levels, astronomers have taken the star’s temperature to identify the cause of its recent…
A bacterial species that survives by ‘breathing’ rock has intrigued scientists for decades, even though the inner workings of its mysterious cellular respiration technique have remained far from clear. Now,…
According to a study published in the journal Frontiers in Plant Science, lettuce grown in space isn’t just delicious – it’s also just as nutritious and safe to eat as…
When NASA’s Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (Insight) lander set down on Mars in November of 2018, it began its two-year primary mission of studying Mars’…
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went missing six years ago today, on March 8, 2014, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board. No wreckage of the…
On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 vanished en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Now more than half a decade on, the missing jet plane and the 239…
As macabre as it seems, it’s not exactly a secret that in some species of shark the unborn dine on their siblings while still developing in the womb. But it…
Evolution explains how all living beings, including us, came to be. It would be easy to assume evolution works by continuously adding features to organisms, constantly increasing their complexity. Some…
Time, as far as we know, moves only in one direction. But in 2018, researchers found events in some gamma-ray burst pulses that seemed to repeat themselves as though they…
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went missing on March 8, 2014, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board. Tomorrow is the sixth anniversary of the tragedy…
The world has wasted precious time, and now, after a decade of procrastination on climate change, we have our work cut out for us. If nations around the globe still…
We already know dogs are amazing creatures, and scientists just discovered another talent our canine friends seem to possess: they appear to be able to sniff out the heat of…
According to some Christian evangelists, the coronavirus represents one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, whose arrival is said to precede the end of the world. But these are…
The shocking claim that coronavirus was deliberately created and then released to wipe out humanity been widely . Fears were not helped when a 40-year-old book was discovered, as it…
Well, those crazy chemistry cats have done it. Nearly 200 years after the molecule was discovered by Michael Faraday, researchers have finally revealed the complex electronic structure of benzene. This…
The deadly virus is on the verge of becoming a pandemic after almost 100,000 cases have been reported worldwide, amounting to 3,390 deaths. The Chinese government first alerted the world…
We may not be as lucky as birds, but the human eye does pretty well when it comes to colour perception; typically, we can distinguish around 1 million colours. A…
New analysis of organic molecules found in dried-up Martian mud in the Gale Crater has revealed an intriguing possibility. Scientists have concluded that we can’t rule out those molecules actually…