LONDON: Giving up on beef will be more beneficial to the planet than driving cars. Scientists have confirmed that beef's environmental impact significantly that of other meat including chicken and pork
The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) has signed an agreement with Venezuela for in-orbit delivery of a second remote sensing satellite for the country, the company said on Tuesday.
A high-flying package of live animals, plant seeds, and materials samples shot into space Friday (July 18) aboard a retrievable Russian Foton satellite, launching a two-month mission focusing on microgravity
Microorganisms and their viruses are increasingly recognized as drivers of myriad ecosystem processes. However, our knowledge of their roles is limited by the inability of culture-dependent and culture-independent
The United Arab Emirates government on Wednesday said it plans to send an unmanned spacecraft to the planet of Mars by 2021 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the country’s founding. The project
The mission of Aura, which is Latin for breeze, centers on obtaining measurements of ozone, aerosols and key gases throughout the atmosphere. And after one decade in space, the satellite has provided vital
- Less for research, more for security The 2014-15 Union budget outlays for scientific research reflect marginal jumps over allocations last year with atomic energy, space, biotechnology and earth sciences
Posts, Telecommunication and Information Techno-logy Ministry will place a fresh development project proposal (DPP) to launch the country’s first-ever satellite Bangabandhu-1 at an estimated cost of Tk
Astronomers have studied the carbon monoxide in a galaxy over 12 billion light years from Earth and discovered that it's running out of gas, quite literally, and headed for a 'red and dead' future. The
An unmanned Delta 2 rocket blasted off from California on Wednesday, carrying a NASA science satellite to survey where carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas tied to climate change, is moving into and out of
