Science

Nasa’s Anil Menon, 2 Russian cosmonauts head to ISS: How to watch launch live

How a DRDO scientist’s advice on Bengaluru-Delhi flight ‘changed’ a CEO’s life

Family 'heartbroken' over parents' wildfire deaths

Pete and Fran Gillam are confirmed dead by their family, who live in Sheffield.

Woman charged with aggravated arson over moorland fire in Greater Manchester

Shania Care-Slede, 20, arrested over incident at Dovestone reservoir on Saturday in which fireworks were launched A woman has been charged with arson in connection with a major moorland wildfire, as large parts of Manchester were covered…

The young Chinese scientist behind an ‘impossible’ breakthrough on sodium batteries

Scientist Lu Yaxiang, a professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Physics, has spent a decade working to make sodium-ion batteries commercially viable. Those years of work on energy storage in April earned Lu a China Youth…

B.C. helicopter pilot killed in Colorado crash while on wildfire duty

Police in southwestern Colorado say a man from British Columbia has died after the helicopter he was piloting crashed on Sunday.

NASA chief visits Russia's space launchpad for US-Russian crew launch

Once bitter rivals in the space race during the Cold War, Russia and the US cooperate on the space station and other projects.

Cebu Pacific planes to have Starlink Wi-Fi by 2027

MANILA, Philippines – Gokongwei-led Cebu Pacific has tapped Elon Musk-owned Starlink to provide satellite internet across its fleet, becoming the first low-cost carrier in Southeast Asia to do so. The company will begin rolling out the…

T rex tooth stuck in fossil shows how predator hunted 66 million years ago

An amazing fossil discovery shows a T. rex tooth stuck in an Edmontosaurus skull, dating back 66 million years. This proves a direct clash between these dinosaurs. The tooth confirms T. rex involvement, meaning the Edmontosaurus was either…

First Bundibugyo Ebola vaccine to start human trials in the UK

Scientists in Oxford will start to test the world's first vaccine against Bundibugyo Ebola, as an outbreak of the rare virus strain continues to spread across Congo and Uganda.

Top computer scientist: ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini don't understand a word they say

Computer scientist Peter J. Denning argues Alan Turing's 1950 paper sent AI down the wrong road. In his new book, he says two Turing assumptions—that intelligence needs no body, and that imitation proves thought—have misled 75 years of…

National bullion bank accumulates 153 tons of gold: ministry

Indonesia's national gold bank, or bullion ecosystem, has accumulated approximately 153 tons of gold in the 17 ...