A brief history of the UK's Winchcombe meteorite
Mar 13, 2023 11:53 am UTC| Science
On 28 February 2021, for the first time in 30 years, a meteorite fell in the UK and was later recovered by scientists. Today, theres an international effort to study this space rock and learn more about its place in the...
Mar 13, 2023 11:43 am UTC| Science
Hundreds of experts from around the world gathered at the Francis Crick Institute in London this week for the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing. As at the first and second summits, held in Washington DC...
Mar 13, 2023 11:41 am UTC| Science
Hot on the heels of the disappointing Green Comet, astronomers have just discovered a new comet with the potential to be next years big story C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS). Although it is still more than 18 months from...
The earliest modern humans in Europe mastered bow-and-arrow technology 54,000 years ago
Mar 13, 2023 11:39 am UTC| Science
Based on research in Frances Mandrin cave, in February 2022 we published a study in the journal Science Advances that pushed back the earliest evidence of the arrival of the first Homo sapiens in Europe to 54,000 years ago...
How amateur scientists are still helping make important discoveries
Mar 04, 2023 12:22 pm UTC| Science
What images does science conjure up in your mind? You may well be visualising a laboratory, equations scrawled on a blackboard. Figures are surrounded by glassware filled with coloured liquids. Maybe someone, with...
Drinking Coke, Pepsi could increase testicle size, testosterone level: study
Feb 23, 2023 04:11 am UTC| Health Science Economy Business Life
A study by the Northwest Minzu University in China has revealed that drinking Coca-Cola and Pepsi can lead to larger testicles and higher testosterone levels. The university was determining the impact of carbonated...
Japanese tourism startup Iwaya Giken to offer balloon rides into ‘space’
Feb 22, 2023 23:41 pm UTC| Life Economy Business Science
Japanese startup Iwaya Giken is launching a space tourism business to take sightseers on balloon rides 25 kilometers into the stratosphere Iwaya Giken noted that while passengers need not undergo special training to...