• ‘Smart farming’ plows ahead in Japan

    “Smart farming,” which utilises cutting-edge robotics and artificial intelligence, could hold the key to an agricultural resurgence in a nation of graying farmers and a general population reluctant to toil in the soil.

  • Gene-edited monkeys cloned for sleep disorder research

    Chinese scientists make clones of a gene-edited macaque to aid research of circadian rhythm disorders that are linked to sleep problems, depression and Alzheimer's disease, the official Xinhua news agency says.

  • Chinese scientist who gene-edited babies fired by university

    A Chinese scientist who created what he said were the world’s first “gene-edited” babies evaded oversight and broke ethical boundaries in a quest for fame and fortune, state media said on Monday, as his former university said he had been fired.

  • Skywatchers await 'super blood wolf moon'

    Look up into the night sky on Sunday and - if it is clear - you may witness the so-called "Super Blood Wolf Moon" total lunar eclipse, which will take a star turn across the continental United States during prime time for viewing.

  • Total lunar eclipse meets supermoon

    Total lunar eclipse meets supermoon Sunday night

    Here comes a total lunar eclipse and supermoon, all wrapped into one. The moon, Earth and sun is to line up for the only total lunar eclipse this year and next.

  • Japanese satellite launched to deliver artificial meteors

    A rocket carrying a satellite on a mission to deliver the world's first artificial meteor shower blasts into space, Japanese scientists says.

  • Chinese seed sprouts on moon

    A small green shoot is growing on the moon in an out-of-this-world first after a cotton seed germinates on board a Chinese lunar lander, scientists say.

  • China moon rover wakes from nap

    China's lunar rover got back to work on the far side of the moon Thursday after waking from a five-day hibernation, its official social media page announced.

  • 'Repeating' radio waves from deep space baffle scientists

    Astronomers in Canada have detected a mysterious volley of radio waves from far outside our galaxy, according to two studies published Wednesday in Nature.

  • Nasa Mars

    Nasa spacecraft lands on Mars

    Nasa's InSight spacecraft, the first robotic lander designed to study the deep interior of a distant world, touches down safely on the surface of Mars with instruments to detect planetary seismic rumblings never measured anywhere but Earth.