MICROBES may prove indispensable to deep space exploration, with researchers saying their presence is unavoidable and their potential benefits significant.
SAN FRANCISCO: WhatsApp said Wednesday that Russia “attempted to fully block” the messaging app in the country to push users to a competing state-controlled service, potentially affecting 100 million people.
TORONTO: Canada was in mourning Wednesday, Prime Minister Mark Carney said, after a lone shooter killed at least nine people, including seven at a school, and injured dozens more in a remote western town.
SCIENTISTS studying the origins of life say some genes that shaped modern biology are older than the earliest common ancestor shared by all living organisms.
Dallas-based Colossal Biosciences will establish the Colossal Biovault and World Preservation Lab in Dubai’s Museum of the Future, storing millions of frozen tissue and biological samples from 10,000 species, including the 100 most endangered globally and in the UAE.
MEMBERS of the public helped name a newly identified deep-sea chiton after more than 8,000 suggestions were submitted through a global online naming campaign led by Senckenberg Ocean Species Alliance (Sosa) in collaboration with Pensoft Publishers and science YouTuber Ze Frank.
TOKYO: Tokyo on Monday that reckless actions would be met with a “resolute response”, a day after Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, who is viewed as critical of China, won a landslide election.
NEW YORK: Brad Arnold, a founder and lead singer of American rock band 3 Doors Down, died yesterday, nine months after disclosing that he had kidney cancer, the group said. He was 47.
TOKYO: Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi pledged Saturday to make Japan “more prosperous and safer”, including through tougher immigration screening, in a final appeal to voters on the eve of snap elections.
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE: US President Donald Trump said that Washington had “very good talks” on Iran after the two sides held an indirect dialogue in Oman, pledging another round of negotiations next week.