New species of crested dinosaur identified in Mexico

A team of palaeontologists in Mexico have identified a new species of dinosaur after finding its 72 million-year-old fossilized remains almost a decade ago, Mexico�s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) said on Thursday. Reuters reported the new species, named Tlatolophus galorum,...

China completes historic Mars spacecraft landing

An uncrewed Chinese spacecraft successfully landed on the surface of Mars on Saturday, state news agency Xinhua reported, making China the second space-faring nation after the United States to land on the Red Planet. The Tianwen-1 spacecraft landed on a site on a vast plain known as Utopia Planitia,...

WhatsApp postpones data-sharing change after backlash

The WhatsApp logo and binary cyber codes are seen in this illustration taken November 26, 2019. (Reuters) WhatsApp on Friday postponed a data-sharing change as users concerned about privacy fled the Facebook-owned messaging service and flocked to rivals Telegram and Signal. The smartphone app, a huge...

Millions of WhatsApp users migrate to Signal and Telegram

WhatsApp users this week flocked in their millions to other more privacy-based apps like Signal and Telegram after WhatsApp announced they will soon start sharing data with Facebook. According to Telegram, they recorded an increase of 25 million users in the past 72 hours. Signal�s Brian Acton said...

Apple Presents Its 5G-Enabled iPhone 12+Video

According to Verizon Communications Inc�s chief executive, Hans Vestberg, the new model has faster 5G connectivity thanks to its network which is set to overcome bottlenecks in big cities and crowded areas. Apple Inc unveiled its 5G-enabled iPhone 12 on Tuesday. The new smartphone has a 6.1-inch...

Possible sign of life discovered on inhospitable Venus

This artistic impression depicts the planet Venus, where scientists have confirmed the detection of phosphine molecules. (Photo by Reuters) Scientists said on Monday they have detected in the harshly acidic clouds of Venus a gas called phosphine that indicates microbes may inhabit Earth�s inhospitable...

Apple plans to make at least 75 million 5G iPhones for this year

Apple Inc has asked suppliers to make at least 75 million 5G iPhones for later this year, along with new Apple Watch models, a new iPad Air and a smaller HomePod, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday. According to Reuters, Apple expects shipments of these next-generation iPhones to reach as high as...

Scientists Have Reportedly Discovered Remains of Giant Pigeon

Scientists from the University of New Mexico have found the remains of a giant pigeon, Tongoenas burleyi, on the islands of the Kingdom of Tonga in Oceania, according to the portal "Eurekalert!" The pigeon may be among the most common animals city-dwellers encounter on a daily basis, especially if...

Don�t expect first COVID-19 vaccinations until early 2021: WHO

A woman holds a small bottle labeled with a "Vaccine COVID-19" sticker and a medical syringe in this illustration taken April 10, 2020. (Photo by Reuters) Researchers are making "good progress" in developing vaccines against COVID-19, with a handful in late-stage trials, but their first use cannot be...

Iran successfully tests 5G in lab in Tehran

Photo published on July 22, 2020 shows a view to a site where Iran�s second largest mobile operator MTN Irancell launched a first lab testing site for 5G high-speed mobile internet in the Iranian capital Tehran. An Iranian deputy telecoms minister says a first trial in the country for the high-speed...

Coronavirus: Oxford University vaccine found to produce COVID-19 antibodies

Scientists at the University of Oxford say their experimental coronavirus vaccine has been shown in an early trial to prompt a protective immune response in hundreds of people who got the shot. British researchers first began testing the vaccine in April in about 1,000 people, half of whom got the experimental...

Chinese researchers start phase-2 human test for possible coronavirus vaccine

In this file photo a worker packs rabies vaccines at a lab at the Yisheng Biopharma Company, where researchers are trying to develop a vaccine for the coronavirus (COVID-19) in Shenyang in China�s northeast Liaoning province, on June 9, 2020. (Photo by AFP) Chinese researchers have started a second...

Medical experts fear rich nations may get privileged access to potential COVID-19 vaccine

In this picture taken on April 29, 2020, an engineer looks at monkey kidney cells as he make a test on an experimental vaccine for the COVID-19 inside the Cells Culture Room laboratory at the Sinovac Biotech facilities in Beijing. COVID-19 has killed hundreds of thousands across the globe and forced...

Researchers concerned mutations in some strains may help coronavirus spread

Scientists are keeping a close eye on genome mutations to prevent a coronavirus vaccine that only works against some strains. 10 May 2020. (Photo via The Guardian) Scientists have found evidence for mutations in some strains of the coronavirus that suggest the pathogen may be adapting to humans after...

Malaria breakthrough as scientists find microbe �that can stop� mosquitoes spreading deadly disease

Scientists have discovered a microbe they say can prevent mosquitoes from transmitting malaria. Jeremy Herren, a researcher at the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, told Euronews it was a critical first step towards "a new way of controlling malaria". Infected mosquitoes spread...

China says its new space station will be completed by 2022

FILE: In this file photo taken Saturday, June 16, 2012, a Shenzhou 9 spacecraft Long March rocket with 3 astronauts including China’s first female astronaut launches - Copyright AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File China is aiming to complete work on its space station within about two years, officials...

Twitter opens up data for researchers to study COVID-19 spread

In this file photo, taken in Lille, France, on October 01, 2019, the logos of mobile apps Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, Facebook, Google, and Messenger are seen on a tablet. (By AFP) Twitter Inc. will grant researchers and software developers access to a real-time data stream of tens of millions of...

Coronavirus: Minks test positive for COVID-19 at two Dutch farms

Two Dutch mink farms have reported cases of COVID-19 among their animals, the country�s Ministry of Agriculture confirmed on Sunday. Minks at the two farms located within 15km of each other in southern Netherlands "showed various symptoms including respiratory problems," the ministry said in a statement. Mink...

Meteorite explodes, crashes into Brazil+video

An observatory in Brazil captured the moment a meteorite speeds across the night sky before exploding and crashing . According to reports, the meteorite exploded in Brazil�s Hortensias Region in Rio Grande do Sul state. Professor Carlos Fernando Jung from the Heller & Jung Space Observatory reported...

Earth-sized, habitable-zone exoplanet found hiding in Kepler data

An illustration of Kepler-1649c orbiting around its host red dwarf star. This newly discovered exoplanet is in its star�s habitable zone and is the closest to Earth in size and temperature found yet in Kepler�s data. (Photo by NASA) Buried in data from the now-defunct Kepler space telescope, astronomers...

Three COVID-19 vaccines approved for clinical trials: China

Small bottles labeled with a "Vaccine COVID-19" sticker and a medical syringe are seen in this illustration taken taken April 10, 2020. (Photo by Reuters) China has so far approved three vaccines of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) for clinical trials, said an official on Tuesday in Beijing. Wu...

Afghan All-Female Robotic Team Builds Ventilator

The all-girls robotics team, which has won international honors for their robots, has made a ventilator, which they are trying to convince health officials to use for COVID-19 patients. Ventilators are the main lifesaving devices for coronavirus patients, and some countries are faced with a lack of...

Iran�s Defense Ministry unveils rapid test kits for novel coronavirus

This photo published Iranian Defense Ministry news service shows test kits put on display for an unveiling ceremony in Tehran on March 30, 2020. A biomedicine company affiliated with the Iranian Defense Ministry has unveiled homemade rapid tests kits for new coronavirus as the country moves to contain...

Iranian firm supplying much needed test kits amid coronavirus surge

An Iranian company starts supplying 10,000 coronavirus test kits to the labs across the country. An Iranian pharmaceutical company has started supplying coronavirus test kits amid a reported shortage for the much-needed diagnostics for a pathogen that has set off a global pandemic. Vahid Yunessi, the...

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates leaves board of directors

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates Microsoft on Friday announced that co-founder Bill Gates has left its board of directors to devote more time to philanthropy. The 64-year-old stopped being involved in day-to-day operations at the firm more than a decade ago, turning his attention to the foundation he...

Okay Google, Find Aliens! How UFO Fans Use Tech Giant�s Services to Find ETs in Antarctica

In December, UFO fans were engaged in heated debates over a huge mysterious hole in Antarctica. The humongous structure, which users thought was an entrance to a secret military base, first appeared in 2007, but disappeared shortly afterwards. Twelve years later it reappeared on Google Maps. It seems...

Record-breaking NASA astronaut returns to Earth

NASA�s Christina Koch returned to Earth safely Thursday having shattered the spaceflight record for female astronauts after almost a year aboard the International Space Station. Koch touched down at 0912 GMT on the Kazakh steppe after 328 days in space along with Luca Parmitano of the European Space...

New telescope reveals sun�s surface in closest detail yet

Images from a powerful new telescope installed on top of a volcano in Hawaii show the surface of the sun in the closest detail yet, revealing features as small as 30 kilometers (18 miles) across. They were captured by the National Science Foundation�s (NSF) Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, which...

Secret that helps some trees live more than 1,000 years

Researchers in the US and China studied growth rings taken from inside the trunks of 34 healthy ginkgo trees. The trees ranged in age from 15 to 667 years old. They found that the ginkgos didn�t stop growing as they aged, although the rings grew thinner. They found that, no matter what their age,...

Oceans were hottest in recorded history in 2019: Study

The world�s oceans were the hottest in recorded history in 2019, scientists said on Tuesday, as man-made emissions warmed seas at an ever-increasing rate with potentially disastrous impacts on Earth�s climate. Oceans absorb more than 90 percent of excess heat created by greenhouse gas emissions and...