Asteroid discovery: NASA discovers proof rivers once existed on Bennu
Oct 12, 2020 09:30 am UTC| Science
Aside from being monitored in their close-approaches, asteroids are also examined by scientists and space agencies as they can shed more light on the universe. NASA recently made a breakthrough in asteroid Bennu, when they...
NASA releases image of blush-colored nebula taken by the Hubble Space Telescope
Oct 12, 2020 09:18 am UTC| Science
NASA and the European Space Agencys Hubble Space Telescope is currently roaming around deep space, witnessing amazing phenomena that occur throughout the universe. Recently, NASA shared an image of a massive blush-colored...
NASA news: James Webb Space Telescope successfully completes environmental testing
Oct 09, 2020 11:12 am UTC| Science
NASA is currently developing the James Webb Space Telescope in preparation for its impending launch in 2021. The agency has announced that the telescope has now finished its environmental testing, making it capable of...
Oct 09, 2020 10:26 am UTC| Science Nature
Climate change has not only brought on rising sea levels and melting ice, it has also brought on a number of other negative effects. One such effect was warned by the US Centers for Disease Control, about a kind of amoeba...
COVID-19 cure: Regeneron files for emergency use approval of REGN-COV2 to FDA
Oct 09, 2020 10:11 am UTC| Science
There has yet to be a definitive cure for COVID-19, which has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives and the numbers only seem to rise for many countries. With Donald Trump contracting the coronavirus last week and...
What is CRISPR? A close look at the gene editing technology that won the Chemistry Nobel prize
Oct 09, 2020 07:50 am UTC| Science
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences yesterday awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna for their work on CRISPR, a method of genome editing. A genome is the full set of...
Asteroid alert: 500-meter rock to pass by Earth in November
Oct 08, 2020 12:07 pm UTC| Science
Asteroids regularly pass by our planet all year round, the sizes ranging from very small to massive. One massive asteroid in particular, is currently on its way to Earth, with NASA noting its arrival in November. NASA...
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
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