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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...

More gravitational waves detected

Scientists collect a second burst of gravitational waves sweeping through the Earth.
Scientists find giant new planet orbiting two suns

Astronomers say that they discovered the largest planet outside the solar system that orbits two suns.
Solar Impulse 2 to make New York fly-over

A plane powered entirely by the sun is flying to New York City. The Solar Impulse 2 has taken off from Lehigh Valley, 87 miles (140km) west of the "Big Apple", on a journey that should take only a few hours.
Scientists turn chief global warming gas into harmless stone

Scientists have a found a quick way — but not a cheap one — to turn heat-trapping carbon dioxide gas into harmless rock.
Humans are just starting to understand the octopus — and it's mind-blowing

Every year on June 8, people around the world celebrate this day, and to join in on the fun here are some mind-blowing facts about octopuses.
Likely ancestor of mystery 'hobbit' found

Half-sized humans who lived 700,000 years ago were almost certainly the ancestors of enigmatic "hobbits" whose fossils were found on the same Indonesian isle in 2003, scientists stunned by their own discovery reported Wednesday.
Scientists grow human organs for transplant inside pigs

Scientists in the United States are trying to grow human organs inside pigs.
Scientist engineers bacterium that produces energy

The chemist who gave us the artificial leaf has genetically engineered bacteria to absorb hydrogen and carbon dioxide and convert them into alcohol fuel, reports Forbes.
NASA successfully inflates new space station room

NASA successfully inflated a new experimental room at the International Space Station on Saturday, producing the world's first pump-it-up compartment for astronauts.
Scientists make news clouds which may lessen global warming

A new discovery about how clouds form may scale back some of the more dire predictions about temperature increases caused by man-made global warming.