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Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to 'power of evolution'

A phage is a virus that can infect bacteria and trick them into reproducing it. Smith found that it was possible to tinker with the genetic material of a phage ...

Researchers may have found the first signs of an exomoon

So last October, the pair directed the Hubble Space Telescope at the star in an attempt to verify - or rule out - the possibility of a moon orbiting the plane...

Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded for using evolution to develop new chemicals

Describing Arnold's contribution, the academy noted: "In 1993, she conducted the first directed evolution of enzymes , which are proteins that catalyse chemica...

Physicist suspended for talk that sparks sexism concerns

Cern has found Monday "particularly shocking" the presentation of a visiting scientist who has ensured that the physical is a matter of men and accused women of...

Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded for pioneering work in evolutionary science

Smith, also from the USA, and Winter, from the United Kingdom, jointly win the other half "for the phage display of peptides and antibodies". A phage is a virus...

The Goblin, a dwarf planet, found far beyond Pluto

Astronomers first observed the dwarf planet in 2015, from the Subaru telescope at Hawaii's Mauna Kea Observatories. Illustration by Roberto Molar Candanosa a...

Laser Advances That Changed Our Lives: Nobel Prize in Physics

Ashkin discovered that the "radiation pressure" from a beam of light could be used to move extremely small objects and hold them in position. These devices ...

Hurricane Florence death toll rises to 50

Other lost time will be made up by faculty adding online assignments, readings and face-to-face meetings. In the video, her young daughter can be heard saying...

Shell agrees to massive Canadian liquified natural gas project

The project has a 40-year export license and all major environmental permits are in place for both the plant and the pipeline, according to Shell. The massive i...

Tropical Storm Rosa heads for Baja, U.S. Southwest

By Tuesday afternoon, Rosa will head toward the deserts of Arizona. "Those planning to be outdoors next week should keep an eye on the weather forecast and ma...

Partners announce $31bn investment in Canada LNG project

Canadian producers say a positive final investment decision for the Kitimat-based LNG Canada project could eventually encourage others to follow suit, creating ...

Newly discovered 'goblin' world hints at the presence of Planet Nine

The theoretical Planet Nine is based on the gravitational pull it exerts on these bodies, with astronomers confident it will be found in the coming years. "If...

Nobel in Physics for Controlling Laser Light

Canadian Donna Strickland, Gerard Mourou from France and American Arthur Ashkin will share the £998,662.97 [$998,662.97] prize. Along with Donna Strickland, he ...

Allison and Tasuku Honjo Win 2018 Nobel Prize In Physiology or Medicine

They have been independently working on the treatment since the 1990s. In some cases, some cancer cells also contain these proteins which allow the cells...

Frenchman In Nobel Scandal Gets 2 Years In Prison For Rape

The victim's attorney, Elisabeth Massi Fritz, said that her client was "very relieved", the Expressen newspaper reported . "No rape victims should be silent, n...

Physicist Suspended For Sexist Presentation

Yet it was at just such a meeting, in Cern , the European Organisation for Nuclear Research in Geneva, where Alessandro Strumia, professor of physics at the Un...

For $20 Per Kg, You Can Now Order Experimental Soil From Mars

UCF Physics Professor Dan Britt says that lack of standardization means the results of experiments can't be compared in an apples-to-apples way. Well, in that...

'Monstrous' mosquitoes 20 times larger than normal swarm Carolinas after Florence

This past week NC Governor Roy Cooper announced that he would be directing $4 million to fight a new giant mosquito epidemic now spreading through our state due...

Skull-shaped asteroid is not headed for Earth this Halloween

According to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory small-body object database, the asteroid's next flyby will not be almost so close; it will pass about 24 million m...

Hurricane Rosa off Mexico could bring rip currents to San Diego

It was about 585 miles (940 km) southwest of San Felipe Mexico at 2 a.m. It was heading north at 12 miles per hour (19 kph). The swell will begin to hit on ...

Toxic PCBs threaten orcas around the world

An worldwide team of researchers, including scientists from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), suggest current concentrations could lead to the disappear...

Jurassic giant: Huge new dinosaur species discovered in Africa

Ledumahadi mafube offers a snapshot of the transitional path - from small and bipedal to big and quadrupedal. Ledumahadi Mafube was the most massive land ani...

Judge stops bear hunt and returns Yellowstone grizzlies to the endangered list

Momentum for change to the 1973 act has been building since President Donald Trump took office previous year. Around the hunting of grizzly bear in Yellowston...

Japan rover photos show asteroid's surface

But the hexagonal rovers have now sent back their first, slightly blurry, colour images of their surface and made their first "hop"-their primary means of movem...

Trump, Guterres discuss terrorism, proliferation at UN General Assembly

Fending off the worst effects of climate change is going to take the money countries have pledged but not delivered, French President Emmanuel Macron said o...

Beluga whale in Thames `foraging normally´

Experts have said the whale may be lost and in danger and rescue teams are on standby. "We want to ensure it is given the best chance of survival - and that m...

Vorombe titan confirmed as largest bird ever weighing up to 800kg

In the study, published in the journal Royal Society Open Science , Hansford examined elephant bird bones found around the world, feeding their dimensions into...

Elephant bird Vorombe titan named largest ever bird

It's the "world's largest bird ", called Vorombe Titan , according to a new study published Tuesday in the Royal Society Open Science . In the 19th century...

NASA discovers three things that impact Earth's spin

NASA found the melting of the ice, fueled by the release of greenhouse gases, accounted for one third of Earth's wobble. Over the past century, the Earth has dr...

Beluga whale spotted again in River Thames

Conservationists said they hoped the beluga's natural instincts would soon kick in and it would head out of the estuary and back north. Throughout the day, An...