Long stretches of DNA previously dismissed as “junk” are in fact crucial to the way our genome works, an international team of scientists said on Wednesday . It is the most significant shift in scientists’ understanding of the way our DNA operates since the sequencing of the human genome in 2000, when it was discovered [...]
As extraterrestrial journeys go, it is not the most imposing challenge that science has faced. Yet the quarter-mile journey on which the Martian rover Curiosity embarked last week is being watched with breathless attention by planetary experts. The $2.5bn vehicle, the most sophisticated machine to visit another world, was sent to the Red Planet to [...]
1.58 million sq. miles That’s the current extent of Arctic sea ice, which has already melted to record low levels—despite the fact that there’s more than a month to go in the current summer season. According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), the current level breaks the record melt of 2007, when [...]
Neil Armstrong the first man to walk on the moon, has died aged 82. The former US astronaut, who will go down on history as the most famous pioneer of space exploration, passed away as the result of heart complications following surgery. As commander of the Apollo 11 mission, he became the first person to [...]
Driving off Bradbury Landing: The tracks left in the Martian soil by the rolling Curiosity vehicle can be seen at top-right. Photo: BBC The US space agency’s (Nasa) Curiosity rover has finally begun to roll. The Mars robot, which landed [...]
Holloman Air Force Base, at the eastern edge of New Mexico’s White Sands Missile Range, 200 miles south of Albuquerque, was once famous for the daredevil maneuvers of those who trained there. In 1954, Col. John Paul Stapp rode a rocket-propelled sled across the desert, reaching 632 miles per hour, in an attempt to figure [...]
SHANGHAI, June 24 (bdnews24.com/Reuters) – China re-affirmed its goal of building a full-fledged space station by 2020 on Sunday, following a successful manual docking between a manned spacecraft and an experimental orbiting lab module. “Mastery of rendezvous and docking technology is a decisive step towards realizing the goals of the second stage in the development [...]
Prof Sir Mark Walport has been appointed to be the UK government’s chief scientific advisor. He is seen as a “big-hitter” who knows his way around the Whitehall machine. He is earthy, forthright and a great communicator. His tenure as one of the most influential civil servants in Whitehall is likely to be eventful. [...]
LONDON: British police on Tuesday loaded almost 3,000 images onto a smartphone App and invited the public to help them identify people suspected of taking part in last year’s London riots. The Metropolitan Police force loaded 2,880 CCTV images onto its App and urged people to sift through the images and confidentially send the [...]
Around the time the iPad came out more than two years ago, Microsoft executives got an eye-opening jolt about how far Apple would go to gain an edge for its products. Microsoft learned through industry sources that Apple had bought large quantities of high-quality aluminum from a mine in Australia to create the distinctive cases for the [...]