Researchers have identified an insect species which was once thought to be extinct. The Australian government plans to wipe out rats which have predated on the insect in the Lord Howe Island.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017 has been awarded to development of cryo-electron microscopy. The instrument is useful in medical research for finding antibiotics for deadly diseases.
The Royal Swedish Academy for Science had declared the award for Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish, and Kip S. Thorne for their contributions in the development of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) detector and for their observations of gravitational waves.
The government of England has decided to give maximum punishment of five years imprisonment for the people who commit atrocities to animals. The new rule might get implemented by 2018.
Researchers have found that a protein - retrocyclin101 can be used to cure influenza and infectious diseases. The research on mice have found lesser deaths from infection when it was treated with the protein.
The International Astronautical Congress (IAC) meeting in Adelaide, Australia on September 29 became a platform for Space companies and agencies to deliver their idea for mankind's mission to Mars.
Around 300 marine species from the Japanese coast have been found on the western coast of United States, indicating that the marine organisms had traveled through the ocean to evade the plastic debris formed after the devastating tsunami in Japan March 2011.
The Akatsuki spacecraft of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, JAXA, has discovered speeding and rotating winds in the atmosphere of Venus using their spacecraft Akatsuki. The images from the planet show that the wind speed is prevalent during certain months.