Climate change: Study suggests 2020 is one of the hottest years in the Arctic region
Dec 10, 2020 06:26 am UTC| Science Nature
The whole world is affected by climate change, but the warming temperatures have taken a toll on the icy regions of the Arctic most of all. A new study has since offered a dire warning as 2020 might have been one of the...
Dec 10, 2020 06:17 am UTC| Science
NASA and other space agencies all over the world are also preparing for the upcoming missions to Mars. However, following the US successful ending of the Space Race against the Soviet Union, it was revealed that they made...
NASA to send art in deep space in an attempt to inform aliens about human life
Dec 10, 2020 06:11 am UTC| Science
Space agencies like NASA are on the search for life that may exist outside our own planet. A new project by the US-based agency looks to make contact with extraterrestrial life in the universe through sending...
Asteroid alert: Space rock to pass by Earth on Christmas day
Dec 09, 2020 05:49 am UTC| Science
Space objects like asteroids regularly pass by our own planet, with some more massive than others. NASA has confirmed that an asteroid will be making its approach to Earth in time for Christmas on the day itself. It...
COVID-19 news: Researchers suggest gene editing as a preventative measure of future pandemics
Dec 09, 2020 05:33 am UTC| Science
Several pharmaceutical companies have already been making progress towards a vaccine for COVID-19, but the world remains to wait until all have been proven effective in ending the pandemic. A recent study has now suggested...
NASA news: Agency predicts upcoming solar cycles to be its strongest yet
Dec 09, 2020 05:28 am UTC| Science
Aside from monitoring meteors and other similar space objects, NASA is also keeping tabs on any activity that may be taking place in our host star itself, the sun. The agency has now predicted that the upcoming solar cycle...
Asteroid news: Hayabusa2 spacecraft capsule carrying Ryugu samples land in Australia
Dec 08, 2020 06:20 am UTC| Science
Asteroids may appear to be mere debris floating through space, but these rocks are also useful for astronomers to further understand the history of our universe. Japans space agency made history recently when a capsule...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal – and why it won’t go back
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight