Russia has declared a new space race, hoping to join forces with China. Here's why that's unlikely
Aug 24, 2023 07:16 am UTC| Science
This week, the Russian space agency Roscosmos had hoped to return to the Moon after an absence of nearly 50 years. Instead, on Saturday it lost control of its Luna-25 lander. The agency explained the spacecraft switched to...
Scientists find the last remnants of the human genome that were missing in the Y chromosome
Aug 24, 2023 07:15 am UTC| Science
More than 20 years ago, the human genome was first sequenced. While the first version was full of holes representing missing DNA sequences, the genome has been gradually improved in successive rounds. Each has increased...
Aug 22, 2023 04:25 am UTC| Science
The past few weeks have seen a huge surge of interest among scientists and the public in a material called LK-99 after it was claimed to be a superconductor at room temperature and ambient pressure. LK-99 garnered...
Aug 22, 2023 04:21 am UTC| Science
When soaring temperatures, extreme weather and catastrophic wildfires hit the headlines, people start asking for quick fixes to climate change. The U.S. government just announced the first awards from a US$3.5 billion fund...
Chandrayaan-3: India hopes to land a rover on the Moon for the first time
Aug 22, 2023 04:20 am UTC| Science
On Wednesday August 23, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) mission Chandrayaan-3 will deploy its lander and rover to the surface of the Moon. As the name suggests, this is the third mission in a programme of...
Aug 16, 2023 09:15 am UTC| Science
If you have ever taken a medicine, then you have benefited from research in animals. But ten years ago, if you looked at a scientific report involving mice or rats, it would probably have used only male animals. This...
Researchers dig deep underground in hopes of finally observing dark matter
Aug 10, 2023 08:19 am UTC| Science
Physicists like me dont fully understand what makes up about 83% of the matter of the universe something we call dark matter. But with a tank full of xenon buried nearly a mile under South Dakota, we might one day be able...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects