CORONAVIRUS has killed more than 1,000 people in China, fuelling conspiracy theories of unleashed bioweapons and lab experiments gone wrong – but what do experts have to say about these coronavirus theories? The novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) epidemic has infected more…
Scientists have found found the coronavirus can survive for days on surfaces that are frequently touched- especially in crowded Tube stations and hospitals The virus can linger on surfaces for days (Image: Getty Images) Scientists say the coronavirus can survive…
Doctor Li Wenliang, who died on Friday, had warned colleagues about the spread of coronavirus before being gagged by police and then sent a letter warning he would be “punished” The whistleblower doctor who attempted to warn the world about…
MH370 used a special aviation technique to avoid disputed territory and avoid detection, an expert has suggested. Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went missing on March 8, 2014, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board. The…
Four endangered gorillas died suddenly in a Ugandan national park, apparently killed by a single lightning strike. Mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei), a subspecies of eastern gorilla, live at elevations of 8,000 to 13,000 feet (2,400 to 4,000 meters) in…
On June 20, 2013, at 11:15 p.m. EDT, the sun shot out a solar flare (left side), which was followed by an eruption of solar material shooting through the sun’s atmosphere. The sun constantly bombards Earth with wispy belches of…
Children wear face masks during the Lunar New Year of the Rat public holiday in Hong Kong on Jan. 27, 2020. The outbreak of a new coronavirus in China has killed more than 900 people, but one group has escaped…
NASA has featured the photo of astronaut Bruce McCandless II flating free in space as its Astronomy Picture of the Day The photo shows astronaut Bruce McCandless II floating free in space back in 1984 (Image: NASA) At first glance…
In this episode of Life’s Little Mysteries, we’ll take a closer look at some of the mysteries surrounding one of our closest animal companions: dogs. How did dogs get to be dogs; what do they dream about?; and do they…
The spacecraft, called Solar Orbiter, will travel 93 million miles to the Sun to take the first close-up look at the star’s polar regions A new probe built by NASA and the European Space Agency has set off on a…