However, not all experts accept the validity of her results. The possibility of a brain microbiome keeps scientists engaged in a lively discussion with crucial ramifications toward a possible role for ...

“With this executive order, the war on women’s sports is over,” Trump said at a signing ceremony in the East Room that included lawmakers and female athletes who have come out in support of a ban, ...

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The rest of the rocket will continue orbiting Earth indefinitely. Rhodes’ advice to aspiring rocket scientists: Get as much hands on experience as possible Rhodes’ advice to aspiring rocket scientists ...

During the job 260 miles (420 kilometers) up, Williams set a new spacewalking record for female astronauts. The pair expected to stay just a week when they arrived at the space station last June.

This claim by scientists has raised several ethical and social questions. Is it right to have children without a male and female partner? Will this process change the traditional concept of family ...

The Indian Space Research Organisation successfully launched a second-generation navigation satellite, NVS-02, into a geosynchronous transfer orbit using a GSLV rocket in its 100th launch from ...

Humanity is closer to destroying itself, according to atomic scientists who revealed on Tuesday that the famous “Doomsday Clock” was set to 89 seconds to midnight — the closest it has ever been.

Seventy-eight years ago, scientists created a unique sort of timepiece — named the Doomsday Clock — as a symbolic attempt to gauge how close humanity is to destroying the world. On Tuesday ...

A newly-discovered planet similar to our own could be capable of sustaining life (Picture: PA Wire) Scientists have discovered a ‘super-Earth’ planet six times larger than our own which may ...