Science

Newswise — AMES, Iowa – With the help of the world’s most powerful supercomputer and new artificial intelligence techniques, an international team of researchers has theorized how the extreme conditions in stars produce carbon-12, which they describe as “a critical gateway to the birth of life.” The researchers’ fundamental question: …

A Hubble image taken on Dec. 5, 2005 of the Main Belt asteroid 2001 SE101 passing in front of the Crab Nebula.   (Image credit: © NASA/ESA HST, Image processing: Melina Thévenot) Astronomers have revealed the trails of nearly 1,500 new asteroids hidden in data gathered by NASA’s most venerable …

KUALA LUMPUR (April 20): Malaysia has exceeded its expectations of trade and business leads garnered at Expo 2020 Dubai, giving confidence for its industries to get the much-needed boost to reset their businesses, said the Malaysian Green Technology and Climate Change Corporation (MGTC).  MGTC chief executive Shamsul Bahar Mohd Nor said the …

“Even if the aliens are short, dour and sexually obsessed,” the late cosmologist Carl Sagan once mused, “if they’re here, I want to know about them.” Driven by the same mindset, a Nasa-led team of international scientists has developed a new message that it proposes to beam across the galaxy …

Taylor Swift, U.S. singer-songwriter known for hits such as “Shake It Off” and “You Belong With Me,” has earned a new accolade — she now has a new species of millipede named in her honor. The twisted-claw millipede Nannaria swiftae joins 16 other new species described from the Appalachian Mountains …

Messenger RNA (mRNA) technology, which continues to play a key role in the ongoing fight against Covid-19, represents one of the most significant scientific breakthroughs of our time. The widespread effectiveness of mRNA-based vaccines has attracted considerable attention to the prospect of mRNA technology serving as a platform that can …

The world’s billionaires are pouring money into age-reversal investments. Last September, it came out that Jeff Bezos had invested in Altos Labs, a company pursuing biological reprogramming technology. “Reprogramming” is the scientific term for turning old cells young again. It was discovered in 2012 by Japanese scientist Shinya Yamanaka, who called it a …

You will not remember this awful remake, for good reason. While the original was a classic piece of British cinema famed for its ambiguous (and literal) cliffhanger ending, this was a charmless hunk of dreck that ends with – no joke – Seth Green buying a set of speakers designed …

The mysterious Antikythera mechanism, thought by some to be the world’s first computer, was first “started up” on Dec. 22, 178 B.C., archaeologists have now found. Discovered by sponge divers in a Roman-era shipwreck near the Greek island of Antikythera in 1901, the elaborate ancient computer, which looks like a …

Having insufficient savings is a big worry but taking monies out prematurely will only compound matters of the inescapable aging society Malaysia will have to face in the decades ahead. In October 2021, the country’s chief statistician Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Uzir Mahidin pointed out that Malaysia is forecast to …