Climate change: Rising temperatures may have caused the collapse of civilizations along central Asia
Dec 18, 2020 08:49 am UTC| Science Nature
Climate change is one of the big issues that we face today in the world but it has always played a part in history. A recent study suggests that the collapse of civilizations in Central Asia may have been caused by climate...
NASA news: Astronomer explains the importance of brown-dwarf star discovery
Dec 18, 2020 07:34 am UTC| Science
With millions of exoplanets beyond our planetary neighborhood, astronomers have been on the search for an exoplanet just like our own Earth. A NASA astronomer has now revealed why discovering brown-dwarf stars is important...
AI technique that predicts cell growth could someday diagnose cancer or develop new drugs
Dec 17, 2020 11:37 am UTC| Science
Machine learning technologies are everywhere. Theyre used by search engines, social media, and even in online banking. But one area that this technology is still emerging is medicine. Machine learning technologies could...
SpaceX Starship prototype exploded, but it's still a giant leap towards Mars
Dec 17, 2020 11:36 am UTC| Science
Private company SpaceX launched SN8, a prototype of its Starship spacecraft, designed to go to the Moon and Mars, on December 10. Its short flight attracted a great deal of attention for its final few seconds before...
Future cities: new challenges mean we need to reimagine how urban landscapes could look
Dec 17, 2020 11:11 am UTC| Real Estate Science
Imagining future cities has long been a favourite activity for architects, artists and designers. Technology is often central in these schemes it appears as a dynamic and seemingly unstoppable force, providing a neat...
Climate change: Ice melt from Greenland could lead to 18-centimeter rise in sea levels
Dec 17, 2020 06:46 am UTC| Science Nature
The increasing temperatures and melting ice have long indicated the dangers of climate change in the world. With icy regions like Greenland and the Arctic taking the worst hit, a suggests that the ice melt from Greenland...
Mars mission: Starship prototype explosion deemed progress towards future Red Planet missions
Dec 17, 2020 06:37 am UTC| Science
In the years to come, space agencies are already gearing up for the inevitable missions to our neighboring planet of Mars. SpaceX has already been conducting tests for the rocket that would be used for the future Mars...
Electricity from farm waste: how biogas could help Malawians with no power
What the Supreme Court is doing right in considering Trump’s immunity case
US election: why it’s not the protesters’ votes that the Democrats should worry about
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects