Science

Scientists reverse ageing in mice

Scientists have reversed signs of ageing in middle-aged and elderly...
SpaceX capsule with world's first all-civilian orbital crew splashes down off Florida

The quartet of newly minted citizen astronauts comprising the...
SpaceX capsule with world's first all-civilian orbital crew set for splashdown

The quartet of newly minted citizen astronauts comprising the...

Bangladeshi water engineer in top 2% of the world scientists

This list has been prepared by Stanford University by analysing...
What life is like aboard the SpaceX Dragon capsule

The first space tourism mission by Elon Musk's SpaceX blasted...
Mars rocks collected by Perseverance boost case for ancient life

Both samples, slightly wider than a pencil in diameter and about...

NASA confirms Perseverance Mars rover got its first piece of rock

NASA confirmed Monday that its Perseverance Mars rover succeeded in...
Bacteria, and Other Gut Feelings

Our behaviour may directly affect the bacteria in our gut.
Chinese researchers propose deflecting 'Armageddon' asteroids with rockets

Chinese researchers want to send more than 20 of China's...

What Does Asteroid Mining Look Like?

They brought iron. They wiped off dinosaurs. It’s payback time.
Bezos offers NASA $2 billion in exchange for moon mission contract

Fresh off his trip to space, billionaire businessman Jeff Bezos on...
Meet Grace, the healthcare robot Covid-19 created

The Hong Kong team behind celebrity humanoid robot Sophia is...

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin sues NASA over Moon lander contract

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin sued the U.S government over NASA'...
AI apocalypse: Will AI replace radiologists?

Artificial Intelligence, in its simplicity, includes processes that...
3 Bangladeshi researchers named in Asian Scientist 100 list

Three Bangladeshi researchers have been included in the sixth...

Musk's SpaceX wins NASA's $2.9 billion moon lander contract

NASA awarded billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's space...
Sea slugs lose heads to rid bodies of parasites, Japan researchers show

Japanese researchers have shown that a type of sea slug are able to...
Elon Musk to offer $100m prize for 'best' tech to capture carbon dioxide emissions

Tesla Inc chief and billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk on Thursday...

Elon Musk's Neuralink shows monkey with brain-chip playing videogame by thinking

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's brain-chip startup...
UAE's 'Hope' probe sends home first image of Mars

The UAE's "Hope" probe sent back its first image of...
Bangladesh to get its first space observatory in Faridpur

The government is all set to build the “Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur...

Mars long ago was wet. You may be surprised where the water went

Mars was once a wet world, with abundant bodies of water on its...
Rich countries fall short in sciences gender equality: UNESCO

Women still face a massive gender bias in science careers worldwide...
Bangladesh-born scientist M Zahid Hasan to receive US Department of Energy award

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will confer the Ernest Orlando...

NASA's Perseverance rover will scour Mars for signs of life

NASA's most advanced Mars rover, Perseverance, launches from Earth on July 30, on a mission to seek out signs of ancient microbial life on what was once a river delta three-and-a-half billion years ago.
Solar Orbiter gives scientists unprecedented look at Sun

Scientists said Thursday they had obtained the closest-ever images taken of the Sun as part of a pan-European mission to study solar winds and flares that could have far-reaching impacts back on Earth.
Bangladeshi scientists complete genome sequencing of virus causing Covid-19

A team from Child Health Research Foundation (CHRF) successfully completes the genome sequencing of the SARS Cov-2 virus in Bangladesh.
Dinosaur DNA found preserved in 75 million year-old fossil

Scientists have discovered organic material preserved in 75-million-year-old dinosaur fossils, including cartilage cells, proteins, chromosomes, and DNA.
Australian scientists make breakthrough on preventing dengue

Researchers from Australia’s national science body successfully genetically engineer mosquitoes that are resistant to spreading dengue virus.
First Iranian-American astronaut reaches for stars

Jasmin "Jaws" Moghbeli earns her fierce nickname during her time as a decorated helicopter gunship pilot who flew more than 150 missions in Afghanistan.
Annular solar eclipse on December 26

A partial solar eclipse will be visible on December 26 in Bangladesh if the sky remains clear, according to Bangladesh Meteorological Department.
Pioneers of lithium-ion battery win Nobel chemistry prize

Scientists John Goodenough, Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino won the 2019 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the development of lithium-ion batteries, an important technology in enabling the world to move away from fossil fuels.
Peebles, Mayor, Queloz win Nobel physics prize

Canadian-American cosmologist James Peebles and Swiss scientists Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz win the 2019 Nobel Prize for Physics for shedding light on the evolution of the universe and discovering planets orbiting distant suns.
3 scientists of UK, US win Nobel Prize in Medicine

Two scientists from the United States and one from Britain win the 2019 Nobel Medicine Prize for finding how cells adapt to fluctuating oxygen levels, paving the way for new strategies to fight diseases such as anaemia and cancer.