Science

WASHINGTON: NASA’s Kepler telescope has spotted a new planet – one where Luke Skywalker might feel right at home. Just...

LONDON: A gas giant 3,700 light years away is the largest planet yet to be found orbiting two stars, scientists...

NEW YORK: In a revelation that shouldn’t surprise anybody, Peabody Energy, the United States’ largest coal company, has been bankrolling...

LONDON: Some worlds have more than one sun in their sky. Now scientists say they’ve confirmed the existence of the...

LONDON: Atmospheric concentrations of CO2 will shatter the symbolic barrier of 400 parts per million (ppm) this year and will...

WASHINGTON: Bombarding Martian rock with X-rays, NASA’s Curiosity rover has dug up the first mineral evidence of an explosive type...

SANTIAGO: Astronomers in Chile have caught the first-ever glimpse of a “supermassive” black hole preparing to gorge itself on gas...

LONDON: A species of tropical fish can differentiate between human faces, the first time fish have been found to possess...

LONDON: A team of astrophysicists from the University of Birmingham has successfully used Kepler data to capture the sounds emitted...

LONDON: A tropical fish can tell one human face from another despite lacking a brain section that homo sapiens and...

SANTIAGO : Chile said Monday it is suing Bolivia at the International Court of Justice over a river both countries...

PARIS: Archaeologists said on Tuesday they had discovered the remains of victims from a 6,000-year-old massacre in Alsace in eastern...

LONDON: It has taken just two months of space-based experimentation for scientists and engineers to know that the European Space...

JAKARTA: This year’s World Environment Day on June 5 puts the spotlight on the illegal trade in wildlife. The problem...

CAIRO: French scientists equipped with a special telescope have joined the Scan the Pyramids project that was launched last year...

WASHINGTON: The universe is expanding faster than anyone had previously measured or calculated from theory. This is a discovery that...

BERLIN: Scientists have taken a “very positive step” towards creating a universal vaccine against cancer that makes the body’s immune...

NEW YORK: Amid their struggle to survive extreme weather conditions, food crops are producing more of chemical compounds that can...

ONTARIO: Our galaxy has a collective mass 700 billion times that of the sun, according to the most accurate measurement...

LONDON: Environmental problems, like pollution and chemicals, are not just inconveniences of modern life. The report “Healthy Environment, Healthy People”...