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Yemen’s Houthi rebels claim to have fired a Burkan-2 missile targeting a royal palace in Saudi Arabia, according to the BBC. The missile was however shot down by the Saudi-led coalition forces, the state media said. Witnesses said hearing an explosion in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. Some users have also posted videos on […]
NASA has awarded the Aircraft Maintenance, Logistics, Integration, Configuration Management and Engineering (ALICE) contract to Yulista Tactical Services based in Huntsville, Alabama. The base period for the contract will be 18 months, starting March 1, 2018. After completion of 18-month base period, the contract offers a one-year option and a 15-month option. The total maximum […]
NASA will announce the finalist concepts for its future solar system mission during a media teleconference on Wednesday, December 20, 2017. According to the space agency, this robotic mission is targeted to be launched in mid-2020s and aims to explore the solar system. This mission would be the fourth in NASA’s New Frontiers portfolio. So […]
The European Space Agency (ESA) and Roscosmos are currently discussing future cooperation between two agencies on ExoMars and the Moon exploration projects. According to the Roscosmos press office, a meeting was recently held between ESA CEO Johann-Dietrich Woerner and Roscosmos CEO Igor Komarov at the ESA’s Research and Technology Center in Noordwijk (the Netherlands) where […]
Berlin’s new international airport will now open in October 2020, eight years behind its proposed deadline for starting the operations. “With today’s supervisory board meeting we are starting the last phase of the completion of the terminal and thus of the opening of BER,” airport Chief Engelbert Luetke Daldrup said. Berlins’ BER airport project has […]
China’s FAST radio telescope has found three new pulsars, the National Astronomical Observatories of China (NAOC) announced on Tuesday. With a receiving area equivalent to about 30 football fields, FAST (Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope)— nicknamed Tianyan— is the largest single-dish radio telescope in the world. The telescope is located in southwest China’s Guizhou […]
Li Kexin, a Chinese diplomat in the United States, has warned that China would invade Taiwan if the US sends its navy vessels to Taiwan Strait. Kexin, a minister with the Chinese Embassy to the United States, said these words during an embassy event on Friday. According to the Reuters, he told American officials that […]
Russian and Chinese militaries have agreed to increase their pragmatic cooperation in the military field, senior military officials from both countries have announced. On Friday, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu met Zhang Youxia, vice chairman of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Military Commission and a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC […]
The world’s most popular cryptocurrency is creating new records with every new day. According to latest reports, Bitcoin has now reached its all-time high value of $18,000. Forbes revealed that Bitcoin price rallied up to $18,000 per unit on late December 7, and then fell back to about $16,000. In early hours of Friday’s trading, […]
A gold fortune with a value of over €100,000 was found in a box of donated food at Lindenhof Senior Centre in Lürrip in Mönchengladbach, Germany. The Local reported that the fortune in the form of South African gold coins was discovered by an employee of the adult care center. A 78-year-old widow recently donated […]
Russian space agency Roscosmos has joined hands with S7 airline to build a new orbital cosmodrome complex, a source in the aerospace industry told daily Izvestia. The new cosmodrome complex will be used to assemble and fuel spacecraft. The complex is also expected to be used to launch spacecraft into near-earth orbits as well as […]
A geologist has discovered a 2,000-million-year-old “prokaryotic” microfossils in India. The microfossils were found in a carbonaneous shale from the Gawlior basin of the Bundelkhand region in Central India. Naresh Ghose, formerly geology professor at Patna University, lives in the city of Bengaluru. His latest finding was reported at the recent annual convention of the […]
We all know that intelligence level of one individual is different from the other individual. Some people are smarter and more intelligent than others. But why? Probably because the brains of intelligent people are wired in a different way compared to average people, as per claims made a new study carried out by scientists from […]
Scientists have finally revealed how the little, black flies of Mono Lake are able to keep themselves dry underwater and survive in the highly alkaline water of the lake. The vast Mono Lake lies east of Yosemite National Park in California and is one of the most ancient lakes in North America. This 150-foot-deep lake […]
Niels Hogel, a German nurse who received a life sentence in 2015 for killing two people, could have actually killed more than 100 patients, according to police officials investigating the case. During his trial in 2015, Hoegel admitted killing patients in city clinics in Oldenburg and Delmenhorst. He used to systematically administer overdoses of heart […]
India is currently working on reusable launch vehicles for Mars exploration and to search for alien life in the vast Universe, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman AS Kiran Kumar has revealed. Mr. Kumar was speaking at an inaugural talk at Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) on Wednesday. PRL has organized a three-day brainstorming session […]
A new study carried out by NASA scientists has revealed some surprising information about melting of ice sheets in Antarctica. According to this study, a geothermal heat source (called mantle plume) is lying deep under Antarctica’s Marie Byrd Land, and while this mantle plume does not pose any additional threats, it could explain the collapse […]
Researchers have discovered a new great ape species in Sumatra, Indonesia. This is the first great ape species to be described by scientists in nearly 90 years. Previously, scientists have recognized six great ape species: Sumatran and Bornean orangutans, eastern and western gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos. The latest study is based on analysis of the […]
Scientists have been using the CRISPR gene-editing tool to alter DNA, but now a team of scientists from the Broad Institute claims to have expanded this tool to also edit RNA. RNA is different to DNA in a variety of ways. While DNA is responsible for storing and transferring genetic information, RNA within the cells […]
In 2014, the same team of astronomers had found two rings around Chariklo, a smaller, space rock orbiting between Neptune and Jupiter. Haumea—an egg-shaped dwarf planet located at the edge of our Solar System—features a ring of particles, according to a new study led by a group of astronomers from the Institute of Astrophysics of […]
Terrorists have attacked the Kabul international airport in Afghanistan, according to the TOLO News. The rocket attack came just hours after US Defence Secretary James Mattis arrived in Afghanistan on a surprise visit. All flights at the airport were cancelled following the attack. The rocket attack started at about 11.15 am, with firing of about […]
This spacecraft was designed to last for just six months in the Martian orbit, but surpassing all expectations, it has now completed three years in space. We are talking about ISRO’s Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) that on September 24 completed three years in Mars orbit. India’s Mars mission was launched on November 5, 2013 from […]
Researchers used nerve stimulation technique on a 35-year-old man who has been in a vegetative state for the past 15 years, and noticed improvement in the level of consciousness in that person. The patient selected for this study was incapacitated by a car accident 15 years ago, and showed no signs of improvement in the […]
Paving the way for humanlike robots, the researchers at Columbia University have created synthetic soft muscles that are able to lift 1,000 times their own weight. Dubbed soft actuator, these artificial muscles have been created using 3D printing technique. They can push, pull, twist, bend and lift weight and cost just US$ 0.03/gram to make. […]