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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...

Explosion rocks SpaceX launch site in Florida

An explosion destroys a Falcon 9 rocket belonging to Elon Musk's SpaceX during routine test firing at Cape Canaveral in Florida.
New fossils show life on Earth at least 3.7bn years old

Life on Earth is even older than we thought, says Australian scientists as they unveiled fossils dating back a staggering 3.7 billion years.
Fall from tree may have caused death of 'Lucy' the famed fossil

Lucy, one of the best known ancestors of humans to ever roam the earth, may have died after a fall from a tree, University of Texas researchers said on Monday after studying her 3.18-million-year-old fossilized remains.
Buried tectonic plate reveals hidden dinosaur- era sea

A previously unknown tectonic plate — one that has been swallowed up by the Earth — has been discovered in the Philippine Sea, according to a recent study, reports Live Science.
Earth-like planet found circling star nearest to the sun

Scientists have discovered a planet that appears to be similar to Earth circling the star closest to the sun, potentially a major step in the quest to find out if life exists elsewhere in the universe.
Study finds ancient Iceman wore hat made of bear skin

Scientists say Oetzi the Iceman wore clothes made of brown bear pelt and roe deer when he died in the Alps 5,300 years ago.
Nissan revolution: Could new petrol engine make diesel obsolete?

Japanese automaker Nissan Motor Co has come up with a new type of gasoline engine it says may make some of today's advanced diesel engines obsolete.
Long in the tooth: Greenland shark may live 4 centuries

The Greenland shark, a big and slow-moving deep-ocean predator that prowls the frigid waters of the Arctic and North Atlantic, can claim the distinction of being the planet's longest-living vertebrate, with a lifespan perhaps reaching about 400 years.
Mystery mummified monster discovered in Siberia diamond pit

A strange mummified creature has been discovered at the heart of a diamond pit in the Sakha Republic, in northern Siberia, according to International Business Times.
Facial reconstruction made of Bronze Age woman

Scientist makes facial reconstruction of a young woman who died more than 3,700 years ago.