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Chronic wasting disease has been spreading among deer in the United States, which has raised concerns that the fatal neurological illness might make the leap to people. But a recent study suggests that the disease has a tough path…

ISRO's Aditya-L1 spacecraft's two onboard remote sensing instruments have captured the recent solar fury, the space agency said on Monday. India's maiden solar mission Aditya-L1 reached the Lagrangian point (L1) on January six this…

Michigan HT Image Michigan, The Sun warms the Earth, making it habitable for people and animals. But that’s not all it does, and it affects a much larger area of space. 3.6 Crore Indians visited in a single day choosing us as…

Bengaluru, More innovations and understanding the chemistry of waste material will help find ways to reuse solid waste, experts suggested during a panel discussion organised at Bengaluru International Centre on June 9. One of the…

New Delhi, A new study has shed light on how the brain imagines future outcomes to guide decisions and researchers says a deeper understanding of these brain mechanisms could ultimately improve the treatment of disorders affecting…

Retired astronaut William Anders, one of the first three humans to orbit the moon, who captured the "Earthrise" photo during NASA's Apollo 8 mission, died on Friday when the small plane he was piloting crashed in Washington state, local…

Wildfire season got off to an early start in Northern California with the Corral Fire, which started burning grasslands in San Joaquin County on June 1 and grew to cover more than 50 square kilometers. A new modeling study…

Two lines of ancient apes, including what may be the smallest great ape yet, lived alongside each other in Europe, fossils discovered in a Bavarian clay pit indicate. It’s the first time that different species of ape, each with a…

The most destructive Cascadian earthquakes are likely to slam offshore of Washington state and Vancouver Island, new data reveal.   The Cascadia megathrust is a massive fault thought capable of generating devastating magnitude…

Detecting exoplanets used to be so difficult that scientists spotted the first black hole, detected the leftover radiation from the Big Bang and took snapshots of countless distant galaxies before discovering the first planet…

Horse power may have revved up about four millennia ago. Horses were domesticated at least twice, researchers report June 6 in Nature. Genetic data suggest Botai hunter-gatherers in Central Asia may have been the first to…

Oddly, origami could be useful for snagging prey.  A single-celled protist called Lacrymaria olor uses a helix of pleats folded like origami to unspool a necklike protrusion up to 30 times the length of its body, or 1.2…

People have been wrongly jailed for forensic failures. Scientists are working to improve police lineups, fingerprinting and even DNA analysis.

Boeing's Crew Flight Test mission has finally been launched after multiple delays. The Indian-origin NASA astronaut Sunita Williams has scripted history again as she onboarded  Boeing's Starliner crew flight along with Butch Wilmore.…

China has become the first country to collect samples from the farside of the moon, hopefully providing scientists with new insights into the history and formation of our natural satellite. On June 1, a grab-and-go mission…

A series of explosions from the Hawaiian volcano Kilauea in 2018 may have been triggered by a never-before-seen style of eruption — one that’s reminiscent of a stomp rocket toy. In May of that year, plumes of hot gas and rock…

Boeing geared up again Wednesday for its first astronaut launch, held up for years by safety concerns. It was the third launch attempt for NASA test pilots Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams in Boeing's Starliner capsule. Rocket-related…

Accessible images A recent study calls into question the long-standing assumption that male mammals tend to be larger than females, Jonathan Lambert reported in “Mammal size rule needs rethinking” (SN: 4/6/24, p. 12).…

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Beautiful curtains of pink and green light swirled in night skies around the world in May during one of the strongest displays of auroras in half a millennium. The source of that light show was the sun. In the first week of…

Nobel Prize-winning biochemist Thomas Cech’s new book is part ode to RNA and part detailed history of the scientists who’ve studied it.

Earth may have had fresh, not just salty, water as soon as 600 million years after the planet formed — a mere blink of an eye in geologic time. Researchers analyzed oxygen molecules within 4-billion-year-old zircon crystals…

WASHINGTON — Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease expert until leaving the government in 2022, faces heated questioning Monday from Republican lawmakers about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. HT Image A…

Animal Genes Transplanted to Bacteria — Science News, June 1, 1974 Genes from animals can be combined with genes from bacteria and be put in a bacterium so that the animal genes can replicate in the bacterium…. The…

TOKYO — Earthquakes early Monday again struck Japan's north-central region of Ishikawa, still recovering from the destruction left by a powerful quake on Jan. 1, but the latest shaking caused only minor damage. HT Image A magnitude…

Indian-origin astronaut Sunita Williams is all set to fly into space for a third time via the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Boeing Starliner spacecraft. The flight, originally scheduled for May 6, was postponed…

One of the most peculiar of North America’s natural wonders — the synchronized mass mating frenzies of big, obsessed insects called periodical cicadas — is playing out across the southeastern and midwestern United States. The…

Cats are getting — and dying of — bird flu. That’s sparking worries about the risk that the ongoing outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza poses for these feline furballs and their owners. This outbreak has been…

Big things can sometimes come in small packages.  A small fern has broken the record for the largest genome yet known, researchers report May 31 in iScience. The plant’s full set of genetic instructions is over 50 times the…

The Institute of Biotechnology Research and Innovation Council (iBRIC) under central department of Biotechnology —Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI)—has organised the 2nd THSTI Advanced Course in Vaccinology…