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Astronomers have identified a new ultra-faint dwarf satellite companion of our Milky Way Galaxy.

• 22 ноября 2016, 20:31

China will launch its second space lab as the country works towards setting up its own space station, among several ambitious goals.

• 14 сентября 2016, 18:08

Life on Earth is even older than we though - fossils dating back a staggering 3.7 billion years have been discovered.

• 01 сентября 2016, 13:20

The prevailing theory that mammals only flourished after an asteroid strike wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago is doubly wrong.

• 08 июня 2016, 16:53

Japan is abandoning a quarter-of-a-billion-dollar satellite it sent to study black holes, disappointed space scientists said.

• 28 апреля 2016, 17:54

Researchers from Guangzhou Medical University used a gene-editing technique CRISPR to artificially induce a mutation in human cells.

• 13 апреля 2016, 18:31

A long-extinct animal known as the Siberian unicorn -- actually a long-horned rhinoceros -- may have walked the Earth 29,000 years ago.

• 30 марта 2016, 15:46

hunters searching for mammoth tusks discovered an Ice Age puppy's snout peeking out from the permafrost.

• 28 марта 2016, 13:20

A previously unknown giant planet may have been discovered lurking in the outer reaches of our solar system, US scientists announced.

• 21 января 2016, 15:39

Russian investigators began examining the grave of Tsar Alexander III ahead of his exhumation in a probe looking to finally identify the remains of the last tsar Nicholas II and his family.

• 04 ноября 2015, 15:21

In a controversial shift, a leading US medical association urged women to wait until the age of 45 before getting an annual mammogram to screen for breast cancer.

• 21 октября 2015, 15:10

Sweden's Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich of the US and Aziz Sancar, a Turkish-American, won the 2015 Nobel Chemistry Prize for work on how cells repair damaged DNA.

• 07 октября 2015, 17:01

Derived from a herb used to treat fevers some 1,700 years ago, the anti-malaria drug artemisinin is one of many treatments plucked from the treasure chest of ancient Chinese medicine.

• 06 октября 2015, 12:40

Research into brain diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and traumatic injury got a boost with a $100 million pledge from a US foundation and seven universities.

• 02 октября 2015, 15:24

Liquid water has been observed on the planet Mars which makes it far more likely that life could be found there, the US space agency NASA said.

• 29 сентября 2015, 12:04

Biotech stocks took a hit after Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton pledged to take action against runaway price increases on specialty drugs.

• 22 сентября 2015, 13:54

Archaeologists in Kazakhstan are puzzled over headless remains found in ancient burials of Hun and Sarmat warriors.

• 27 августа 2015, 19:07

Seven start-up projects from Kazakhstan have qualified in the final round of TECHNATION acceleration program for start-up teams from CIS, Europe and Asia.

• 30 июля 2015, 17:48

A solar power plant SunPower Oasis C-7 has been presented in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana.

• 16 июля 2015, 17:49

Some coral species are better at adapting to climate change than others, and they may be able to pass their hardy DNA onto the next generation.

• 26 июня 2015, 11:15