Cretaceous-period fossils spark excitement in city’s paleontological community Hong Kong — Hong Kong has unveiled its first-ever dinosaur fossils, believed to originate from a large dinosaur, at the Heritage Discovery Centre on October 25, 2024. The fossils, discovered on Port Island, a small, uninhabited outlying island known for its red rock formations, provide new insights...
Study Shows Hippos Lift All Four Feet Off the Ground While Running at Top Speed A groundbreaking study from the Royal Veterinary College has revealed that hippos can, in fact, get all four feet off the ground while running at full speed. The research, led by Professor John Hutchinson, found that hippos, typically known for...
NASA-backed lunar lander, launched by SpaceX, aims for moon landing on February 22, 2024.” On Thursday, February 15, 2024, Intuitive Machines’ lunar lander, Odysseus, launched successfully from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center aboard a SpaceX Falcon rocket. The mission marks another attempt by a private US company to reach the moon, a month after a rival...
Landmark mission demonstrates potential to redirect celestial threats and safeguard Earth from future disasters In a groundbreaking planetary defense test, NASA successfully crashed a multimillion-dollar spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos, approximately 6.8 million miles from Earth. The mission, known as the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), aimed to assess whether humanity could alter the trajectory...
David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian receive recognition for discovering receptors that detect temperature and touch, a critical discovery for pain management and survival. In a groundbreaking achievement, Professors David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian have been awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their pioneering research into the sense of touch. The pair,...
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