GW170814 was the first binary black hole merger measured by the three-detector network and allowed for the first tests of gravitational-wave polarization.
The scientists gathered in Hong Kong this week for an international conference on gene editing, the ability to rewrite the code of life to try to correct or prevent diseases.
The study found that frequent, seasonal fires nearly 10 million years ago, in the late Miocene -- Geologic time period -- helped turn forested areas into open landscapes, and drove the expansion of grasslands.
The findings by researchers at the New York University (NYU) School of Medicine in the US better explain why hair does not normally grow on wounded skin.
"I want to show that whales are ecosystem engineers," Lavenia Ratnarajah, a marine biogeochemist at the University of Liverpool, was quoted as saying.
For the study, published in the journal BMC Microbiology, the ISS strains were compared to all publicly available genomes of 1,291 Enterobacter strains collected on Earth.
According to NASA, the annual ozone hole reached an average area coverage of 22.9 square km in 2018.
Until now, ulcers and lesions inside the mouth were treated using either creams or mouthwashes, which were used in the whole mouth rather than targeting the specific area, making them less effective.
The host star itself is about 600 light years away from the Earth. The discovery was made by measuring the mass of the planet using the indigenously designed “PRL Advance Radial-velocity Abu-sky Search”
The new visa, which will be provided only to those who have proven their competency in different fields, is expected to attract top foreign experts who will take part in the research programmes in the kingdom.
As the word spread, crowd gathered on the field to look, with many of them terming it a ‘meteor’ that shooted from the sky.
The warning in late 1992 had called on humankind to curtail environmental destruction and cautioned that “a great change in our stewardship of the Earth and the life on it is required, if vast human misery is to be avoided.”
Scientists have for the first time discovered a skeleton of ichthyosaur -in India.
It was a faint signal, but it told of one of the most violent acts in the universe, and it would soon reveal secrets of the cosmos, including how gold was created.
A team of scientists from IIT Kharagpur devised a wearable technology from silk protein fibroin.
An international team of astronomers has discovered a so-called "super-Earth" that could contain liquid water, a situation that would make it a very good candidate for harbouring life.
A team of scientists has developed the world’s strongest and high quality material graphene using soybean. Graphene is a carbon material that is one atom thick. Its thin composition and high conductivity means it is
The world's smallest pacemaker that is as a large vitamin capsule was successfully implanted for the first time in a patient in the US to restore the heart's normal rhythm, scientists say. The pacemaker is
Scientists have discovered a lost gigantic continent called Mauritia hidden beneath the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius. The piece of crust, which was subsequently covered by young lava during volcanic eruptions on the island, seems
A 100-million-year-old insect species with a triangular head has been discovered by a team of scientists at the Oregon State University. The features of the insect are so unusual that it has been placed in
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