Новости по теме science

Collapsible wings help eagle fight air turbulence Soaring eagles tuck in their wings when encountering turbulence to avoid damaging their muscles, scientists suggested.

15 October 2014

'Super' battery being developed in Kazakhstan Kazakhstani scientists have developed a battery with a capacity times higher than in those currently available.

14 October 2014

Malala dedicates Nobel award to 'voiceless' children Education rights campaigner Malala Yousafzai dedicated her Nobel peace prize on Friday to "voiceless" children around the world.

11 October 2014

'Sexting' still prevalent among US teens: researchers "Sexting," or sending sexually explicit images by phone, remains prevalent among US teenagers despite the well-known risks and consequences.

10 October 2014

US, German astronauts finish spacewalk to maintain ISS An American and a German astronaut spent just over six hours on a spacewalk outside the International Space Station for equipment repairs and maintenance.

08 October 2014

Trio win Nobel medicine prize for brain's 'GPS' British-American researcher John O'Keefe won the Nobel Medicine Prize with May-Britt and Edvard Moser, for discovering an "inner GPS" that helps the brain navigate.

07 October 2014

Scientists stretch haul of height-related genes Scientists said they had pinpointed nearly 700 genetic variations that determine human height, more than tripling the haul in researc.

06 October 2014

Scientists sound alarm over long wait for Nobel prize Awarding Nobels decades after the original scientific discovery could lead to the coveted prize becoming irrelevant.

05 October 2014

Woman has baby after womb transplant in world first: Lancet A 36-year-old Swede has become the world's first woman to give birth after receiving a womb transplant.

04 October 2014

US-India to collaborate on Mars exploration The United States and India agreed to cooperate on future exploration of the Red Planet.

01 October 2014

New Kazakh robot to help the visually impaired Kazakhstan laboratory has built a prototype of a robot with a system of speech recognition and synthesis.

29 September 2014

Roche breast cancer drug 'helps patients live longer': study A drug developed by Swiss giant Roche to treat an aggressive form of breast cancer has been shown to extend patients' lives by almost 16 months.

29 September 2014

India's spacecraft beams back first Mars photos India's spacecraft has beamed back its first photos of Mars, showing its crater-marked surface.

25 September 2014

Indian spacecraft on course to enter Mars orbit India is on course to become the first nation to reach Mars on its first attempt.

24 September 2014

SpaceX cargo capsule nears International Space Station SpaceX's unmanned Dragon spacecraft was nearing the International Space Station with a cargo of supplies.

23 September 2014

Physicists achieve longer distance quantum teleportation Physicists in Switzerland said they had succeeded in teleporting the quantum state of a photon to a crystal.

22 September 2014

Weather forces delay to SpaceX cargo mission Thick clouds and rain over the Florida coast early forced the California-based SpaceX to postpone the launch of its Dragon cargo carrier.

20 September 2014

Chimps are natural-born killers, say scientists Chimpanzees can be lethally violent to each other but this stems from an inherent streak and not, as some have suggested, from human interference.

18 September 2014

American waistlines get bigger and bigger: study The average American's waistline has expanded over the past decade, adding about one inch (2.5 centimeters) of belly fat.

17 September 2014

NASA to make announcement on US human spaceflights The company -- or companies -- that will build America's next space taxi to carry astronauts to low Earth orbit and back is to be revealed.

17 September 2014

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