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China's Mars rover finds water evidence on the red planet: study

Chinese scientists have found new evidence that there was water on Mars in the past and there were hydrated minerals on the red planet, which could be potentially exploited during future crewed Mars missions

China's top 10 advances in life sciences in 2021 unveiled

The China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) on Monday released the country's 10 most significant advances in the field of life sciences in 2021

Not quite $1: US chain Dollar Tree announces price hike

Inflation has come for Dollar Tree, which for decades lured American shoppers with promises of items costing just a buck, but which said Tuesday it must now raise those prices to $1.25

Australian astronomers help solve galaxy "murder mystery"

Galaxies are being killed in one of the most extreme regions of the universe and an international team of astronomers believe they now know why, according to a latest research

US-European Solar Orbiter Spacecraft Makes Venus Flyby - ESA

Solar Orbiter spacecraft, a joint project by the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA, has completed its second flyby of Venus in a first-of-its-kind double Venus flyby, the ESA said on Monday

Chinese scientists discover ultrahigh-energy cosmic accelerators in Milky Way

Chinese scientists have detected a dozen ultra-high-energy (UHE) cosmic accelerators within the Milky Way, a find that could overturn humanity's understanding of the galaxy and help reveal the origin of cosmic rays, which have puzzled scientists for a century

Universe becomes hotter over billions of years

The temperature of the Universe has been rising over the last 10 billion years, according to a new research

Researchers discover high-speed jet closest to black hole

Using China's Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope, dubbed Insight-HXMT, researchers have discovered that the low-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (LFQPOs) above 200 keV in a new black hole originated from the precession of a closest relativistic jet to the black hole

Scientists find gas on Venus linked to life on Earth

The atmosphere of Venus contains traces of phosphine gas -- which on Earth can be attributed to living organisms -- scientists said on Monday, in a fresh insight into conditions on our nearest planetary neighbour

Scientists find 'life harbouring' gas on Venus

The atmosphere of Venus contains traces of phosphine gas -- which on Earth is associated with living organisms -- scientists said on Monday, in fresh insight into conditions on our nearest planetary neighbour

Scientists find way to track space junk in daylight

Scientists said Tuesday they had discovered a way to detect space debris even in daylight hours, potentially helping satellites to avoid the ever-growing cloud of junk orbiting the planet

Solar Orbiter gives scientists unprecedented look at Sun

Scientists said Thursday they had obtained the closest ever images taken of the Sun as part of a pan-European mission to study solar winds and flares that could have far-reaching impacts back on Earth

Chinese researchers present evidence of mantle material on far side of Moon

Measurements from China's Chang'e-4 mission to the far side of the Moon have revealed the presence of material from the lunar mantle at the landing site, according to a study published online Wednesday in the journal Nature

Solar Activity Causes Powerful Magnetic Storm Unseen in Some 2 Years - Scientist

The most powerful geomagnetic storm seen in almost two years that has begun on Tuesday morning caused by the solar activity, chief scientist of the Laboratory of Solar X-ray Astronomy of the Lebedev Physical Institute Sergey Bogachev told Sputnik

Chinese Academy of Sciences to hold Public Science Day

The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) announced Monday that it will hold its 15th Public Science Day from May 18 to 19

NASA observation shows universe's earliest galaxies brighter than expected

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed that some of the universe's earliest galaxies were brighter than expected, NASA said Wednesday

NASA spaceship zooms toward farthest world ever photographed

A NASA spaceship is zooming toward the farthest, and quite possibly the oldest, cosmic body ever photographed by humankind, a tiny, distant world called Ultima Thule some four billion miles (6.4 billion kilometers) away

Giant galaxy supercluster found lurking in early Universe

Scientists have discovered a primitive "supercluster" of galaxies forming in the early Universe, just 2.3 billion years after the Big Bang.

Of mice and men: scientists produce babies from same-sex mice pairs

A team of researchers has produced viable offspring from same-sex pairs of mice, using a novel technology that involves stem cells altered to remove certain genes.

3 'hardcore' fish species discovered on Pacific floor

Scientists have discovered three new species of "hardcore" fish living in one of the deepest parts of the ocean, the see-through, scale-free creatures perfectly adapted to conditions that would instantly kill most life on Earth.

Scientists of Russia's Yakutia May Clone Mammoth in Next 10 Years - Region's Head

Scientists of Russia's Sakha (Yakutia) region in cooperation with Japanese and South Korean colleagues may clone a mammoth in the next ten years, the region's acting head Aisen Nikolaev said Friday.

New dinosaur species fossil discovered in China

Chinese scientists have found the fossil of a new dinosaur species in southwest China's Yunnan Province.

Rising temperatures will mean more deaths globally, say scientists

Failure to meet global targets to control rising temperatures will mean more heat-related deaths, researchers said on Thursday.

The 'man in the moon' illusion is caused by lunar swirls, new study finds

"When you look up at a bright full moon on a clear night, you may wonder at the appearance of a human face on the moon's surface."