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...

Underground ocean found on Pluto, likely slushy with ice

Scientists have found evidence that tiny, distant Pluto harbors a hidden ocean beneath the frozen surface of its heart-shaped central plain containing as much water as all of Earth's seas.
Dinosaurs thrived on eve of destruction

In a humid, tropical jungle in southern China eons ago, a remarkably bird-like dinosaur with wing-like arms, a toothless beak and a dome-shaped crest atop its head becomes trapped in mud, struggles in vain to escape and dies.
Wireless implant allows paralysed monkeys to walk again

Scientists have successfully restored walking movement in paralysed legs of primates, by implanting a wireless brain sensor to stimulate nerves in the spine responsible for locomotion.
Ancient cave lion cubs found crushed and frozen in Russia

For more than 30,000 years, northern Russia's cold permafrost preserves the small bodies of two furry and wide-pawed cave lion cubs, one of them in almost pristine condition.
Everyone should watch DiCaprio's ‘Before the flood’

Leonardo DiCaprio’s passionate plea for the planet dominated his Oscar acceptance speech and now the actor has taken time out from his usual movie-making duties to front a powerful film about climate change called Before The Flood.
Bangladesh born scientist jointly wins Prince Sultan prize for water

A Bangladeshi-American scientist and his team member have won the prestigious creativity prize of the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water (PSIPW).
Vegetarians don’t have better heart health than meat-eaters: Study

A recent American study concludes that cutting out meat does not reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease in the next decade.
[WATCH] 13-yr old genius makes clean energy producing device at $5

Meet Maanasa Mendu, who invents a device to harvest wind power by utilising piezoelectric materials that are both eco-friendly and cost efficient.
Hawking opens British artificial intelligence hub

Professor Stephen Hawking opens a new artificial intelligence research centre at Britain's Cambridge University.
Lander aims for risky touch down on Mars

The search for life on Mars may take a giant leap on Wednesday when a space lander is due to touch down on the red planet in Europe's first attempt to land a craft there since the Beagle 2's "heroic failure" more than a decade ago.