Updated: Dec 2nd, 2025 Scientists may have detected the first direct signature of dark matter, nearly 100 years after Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky first proposed its existence. A new study by Professor Tomonori Totani of the University of Tokyo, published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP), suggests that NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space...
Updated: Nov 27th, 2025 NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have reported encouraging signs of recovery in the Antarctic ozone layer, which reached an estimated annual peak of 8.83 million square miles on September 9. While still substantial, scientists noted that this year’s ozone hole is smaller than in many earlier years...
ASEAN Secretary-General Kao Kim Hourn met Cambodia’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Prak Sokhonn on the sidelines of the Special ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting on the current situation between Cambodia and Thailand in Malaysia’s Kuala Lumpur on Monday. During the meeting, Kao Kim Hourn and Prak Sokhonn discussed the...
Updated: Nov 19th, 2025 Image: NASA NASA’s Perseverance rover has stumbled upon an unusual rock during its recent survey of the Vernodden bedrock area, raising the possibility of a new meteorite discovery on Mars. According to mission updates from NASA, the rover encountered an 80-centimetre-wide, sculpted rock named ‘Phippsaksla’, which stood out sharply from the...
Updated: Dec 22nd, 2025 A student-led National Citizen Party (NCP) leader was shot by miscreants in Bangladesh’s Khulna on Monday, just days after the killing of radical Islamist leader Sharif Osman Hadi, as the violence continues to grip the South Asian nation. According to local media reports, the injured was identified as 42-year-old Mohammad Motaleb...
China has reportedly made another major gold discovery, this time beneath the sea off the coast of Laizhou in Yantai city, located in eastern Shandong province. As per reports, the find is being described as the largest undersea gold discovery in Asia so far. According to information shared by the Yantai city government during a...
Updated: Nov 14th, 2025 Chandrayaan-3’s Propulsion Module (CH3-PM) has successfully completed a rare flyby of the Moon, providing valuable data for future lunar missions. Originally part of the historic CH-3 mission that achieved a soft lunar landing on August 23, 2023, the PM had been orbiting the Earth since October 2023 after executing Trans-Earth Injection...
Updated: Dec 22nd, 2025 Fifteen people were killed and 19 others injured in the early hours of Monday in a bus accident at the intersection of the Krapyak toll exit in Semarang city, Indonesia’s Central Java province, local authorities reported. According to the Semarang Search and Rescue Office, the passenger bus was reportedly travelling at...
Updated: Nov 9th, 2025 A groundbreaking pilot study published Saturday in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that a single gene edit could one day permanently reduce dangerously high cholesterol levels, potentially eliminating the need for lifelong medication. The study ‘Phase 1 Trial of CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing Targeting ANGPTL3’, involving just 15 patients with...
Updated: Nov 5th, 2025 A team of researchers from Japan has successfully treated spinal fractures in animal models using stem cells from fatty tissue. The team from the Osaka Metropolitan University used stem cells extracted from adipose — the body’s fatty tissue — to treat spine fractures in rats similar to those caused by osteoporosis...