A study, involving the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) researchers, has shown that tranexamic acid (TXA), a drug aimed at tackling serious postpartum bleeding, can be safely administered intramuscularly to pregnant women, quickly achievin…

Visually striking layers of burnt orange, yellow, silver, brown and blue-tinged black are characteristic of banded iron formations, sedimentary rocks that may have prompted some of the largest volcanic eruptions in Earth’s history, according to new r

NASA invites media to the U.S. Army’s Dugway Proving Ground about 80 miles southwest of Salt Lake City on Thursday, July 20, before the agency’s first asteroid sample collected in space is returned to Earth.

Chain saws, shears, chemicals and goats are losing the battle against the noxious plant.

Orangutans ‘can make two sounds at the same time, similar to human beatboxing’. Dr Adriano Lameira from the University of Warwick and lead author of the stud...

A University of Washington-led team has made a key quantum computing breakthrough by detecting fractional quantum anomalous Hall states in semiconductor material flakes, which could be instrumental in creating stable, fault-tolerant qubits. Quantum computing …

NASA is planning to excavate moon soil to develop resources on the moon, beginning with oxygen and water, by 2032. They aim to expand to iron and rare earths in the future. This will help quantify resources and attract commercial investment. The long-term goa…

Researchers from the Human Brain Project (HBP) and collaborating institutions make strides in understanding the distribution of receptors in the brain.

The spotted-wing drosophila is a threat to fruit growers across the US and Europe. Crispr could thwart the pest's numbers.

Scientists believe there might be planets the size of Jupiter or Uranus at the outer edge of our solar system. These planets could be trapped in the Oort Cloud, a collection of debris that marks the farthest gravitational limit of the Sun and its planets. Res…

Ocean currents are not responsible for the increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide.

It turns out that human ancestors and dinosaurs could have actually co-existed, according to new research.Scientists have produced a study which suggested that placental mammals were around before the asteroid that brought an end to the Cretaceous period hit …

The increase raises concerns for future missions.

An asteroid the size of a house has flown past Earth.The 'near-Earth object', named 2023 MU2, was travelling at 2,000mph.Whilst the asteroid was travelling o...

An international team led by the University of Minnesota Twin Cities has, for the first time, accurately determined the age and formation process of the East Anatolian fault, which runs from eastern to south-central Turkey and was involved in the creation of …

While looking for the remains of the first known interplanetary object to fall to the Earth, a Harvard University scholar discovered some promising material. Two weeks ago, Professor Avi Loeb began a dredging expedition to search the Pacific Ocean's depths fo…

According to SETI, the donut may not be from Mars.

It's shaping up to be a huge week for space and physics news, with two major press conferences about the Universe announced for Thursday 29 June.

By viewing the planet in ultraviolet light, scientists say they can gain insight into the Martian atmosphere and view the surface in remarkable ways.

The competition is now in its 15th year and continues to deliver incredible pictures!

A massive asteroid travelled at some speed past Earth (26,000 miles per hour to be exact) and is the same size as 10 buses.It is called 2013 WV44 and is believed to be up to 524 feet (160 metres) in diameter, according to NASA.To put this size into further pe…

Called the WD0032-317B, this protostar sears at a mind-boggling 7,700°C, surpassing even the surface of our Sun by several thousand degrees!

Reports reveal insights into the world’s leading journals – more than 9,000 quality journals from more than 3,000 publishers receive a Journal Impact Factor for the first time London, U.K. June 28, 2023. Clarivate Plc (NYSE:CLVT), a global leader in connectin…

Scientists in the US have unveiled a new robot that can roll on four wheels, turn its wheels into rotors to fly, and "walk" by using its wheels like feet. Dubbed M4 (for Multi-Modal Mobility Morphobot), scientists called it a "real-life Transformer". It could…