Scientific research

Healthy corals help bleached neighbours regain colour: Study

A new lab study by scientists at Stanford University finds that simply placing healthy, colourful coral in contact with their bleached counterparts is enough to bring the dying ones back from the brink.

Large dogs age more quickly than small dogs at a molecular level

Across mammals, bigger species usually live longer lives than smaller ones like mice, but within a species that pattern can reverse.

NASA’s Perseverance rover breaks record for off-planet driving on Mars

It has focused on the Jezero Crater, a region in the northern hemisphere of Mars believed to have been home to a lake basin billions of years ago.

Astronaut Pikachu logs 67 days and 1,040 orbits aboard ISS – now catch him on Earth

The plush space traveller was at the orbiting laboratory from April 11 to June 17 with crew members from the European Space Agency.

Amelia Earhart expedition heads to Pacific atoll hoping to find her plane

A statue of legendary aviator Amelia Earhart stands at the Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum in Atchison, Kansas.

‘No divisions, no borders’, French astronaut says of seeing Earth from space

French astronaut Sophie Adenot is the first French female astronaut to venture outside the space station for a spacewalk.

UN warns against technology used to read citizens’ minds

Neurotechnologies are advancing so rapidly that governments’ ability to access and manipulate people’s brains could one day pose a threat to fundamental human rights.

Margaret Hamilton, scientist who led NASA’s Apollo software development, dies at 90

Former US President Barack Obama presents scientist Margaret Hamilton with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor in 2016.

Francis Halzen wins Nobel physics prize for work on ‘ghostly messengers’ from outer space

Belgian physicist Francis Halzen was honoured “for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin”.

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