Primordial worm-like creature was forerunner to most animals – including us
A worm-like creature smaller than a grain of rice that burrowed on the sea floor in search of meals like dead organic matter about 555...
In battle against coronavirus, Colombia transforms military hospital
Colombia’s central military hospital, which for decades was inundated with victims of landmines and other casualties of the country’s internal conflict, is being outfitted to...
Coronavirus deals blow to NASA’s 2024 return-to-moon plan
The coronavirus outbreak dealt a blow to NASA’s plans to return Americans to the moon by 2024, as the space agency chief on Thursday ordered...
Fins of prehistoric fish reveal origins of the human hand
Inside the stout fins of a fish that prowled the shallow waters of an estuary in what is now eastern Canada about 380 million years...
Chinese rocket fails on maiden launch – Xinhua
A new Chinese medium-lift rocket, part of a family of launch vehicles meant to support most of China’s launch missions in future, failed on its...
Trials of potential coronavirus treatments start for some existing drugs
Drugs used for treating arthritis are being tested as treatments for COVID-19, the disease caused by a new coronavirus, as researchers rush to find ways...
First woman in space brought down to earth by anger over bid to prolong Putin rule
Valentina Tereshkova was hailed as a hero when she became the first woman in space in 1963....
Joint Russian-European Mars mission postponed over coronavirus
A joint Russian-European mission to send a rover to Mars has been postponed by two years because its final phase has been compromised by the...
Russian-European mission to Mars postponed until 2022 over coronavirus: Roscosmos
Russia’s space agency Roscosmos and the European Space Agency have decided to postpone the launch of a joint research mission to Mars until autumn 2022...
On faraway planet, it’s cloudy with a chance of liquid iron rain
Scientists have detected an exotic planet in another solar system where the weather forecast is always dire – a 100 percent chance of the most...
