DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) launched its first mission to Mars early on Monday (Jul 20) as it strives to develop its scientific and technology capabilities and move away from its reliance on oil. The Hope Probe blasted off from Japan’s Tanegashima Space Center at 1.58am UAE time (6.58am […]
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The reintroduction of red kites to an area of outstanding natural beauty 30 years ago has been a “true conservation success story”, an expert has said. Numbers of kites had declined over a 200-year period and by the 1980s they were one of only three globally-threatened species in the UK. […]
More than 100 wild animals, including at least eight rare rhinos, have died in recent flooding at a national park in north-eastern India, officials say. The Kaziranga park in Assam state is home to the world’s largest population of one-horned rhinos, which faced extinction at the turn of the century. […]
SAN FRANCISCO: Twitter said on Saturday (Jul 18) that hackers were able to download account information for up to eight accounts involved in the hack of its systems this week, but said none of them were verified accounts. The company said the attackers targeted 130 accounts, and were able to […]
WASHINGTON: The NASA astronauts who traveled to the International Space Station in SpaceX’s first crewed flight in May are expected to return to Earth on Aug 2 after spending two months in orbit, a NASA spokesman said on Friday. US astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley will gear up for […]
Up to one-fifth of Brazil’s soya exports to the European Union may be “contaminated” by illegal deforestation, a study has found. Researchers used freely available maps and data to identify the specific farms and ranches clearing forests to produce soya and beef destined for Europe. They found 2% of properties […]
An ocean mystery – how the blackest fish in the deep sea are so extremely black – has been solved in a study that began with a very bad photograph. “I couldn’t get a good shot – just fish silhouettes,” said Dr Karen Osborn from the Smithsonian Institution. Her detailed […]
Millions of people around the world could be exposed to dangerous levels of heat stress – a dangerous condition which can cause organs to shut down. Many live in developing countries, and do jobs that expose them to potentially life threatening conditions. These include being out in the open […]
New pictures of the Sun taken just 77 million km (48 million miles) from its surface are the closest ever acquired by cameras. They come from the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter (SolO) probe, which was launched earlier this year. Among the UK-assembled craft’s novel insights are views of mini-flares […]
PARIS: Emissions of methane – a planet-warming gas several times more potent than carbon dioxide – have risen by nine per cent in a decade driven by mankind’s insatiable hunger for energy and food, a major international study concluded Wednesday (Jul 15). Methane (CH4) has a warming potential 28 times […]