Space science
Mars One plans to build a settlement on Mars
Mars One announced it would build a Mars settlement in 2023, sounding like a fiction story, but it was completely true. The Dutch-funded privately owned company has a pl…
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Animal world
The killing of African elephants is out of control
Poachers have killed more than 11,000 elephants at Gabon, once considered an African elephant elephant paradise, to get ivory from 2004 to present.
Environment
Two ice cracks threaten the Antarctic research station
This is the second consecutive winter that Halley Vi station must be closed because of the risk of being stuck between two growing cracks in the floating ice shelf 150 m…
Environment
Volcanoes operate in the freezing zone
The territories of British overseas are expanding. According to researchers from the British Antarctic Survey Association (BAS), volcanoes erupting on the island of Mont…
Science Events
The Apocalypse stood still in 2013
Scientists report that the Apocalyptic Clock's two needles will not move this year.
Science Events
Apocalyptic Clock inched up by a minute
Climate change and the failure of the international community in an effort to stop the proliferation of nuclear weapons are two reasons why the Apocalyptic clock is turn…
Science Events
Apocalyptic clock is turned back 1 minute
The Apocalypse clock (Doomsday), a symbol of nuclear risk during the past 55 years, has been turned back another minute for the night before midnight.
Scientific works
He closed the research station in Antarctica because the ice surface broke
Researchers are working at the UK's Halley (BAS) survey station in Antarctica, which is preparing to evacuate by detecting a cracked surface in the Brunt Ice Shelf.
Science story
The person who discovered the ozone layer hole died
Scientist Joe Farman of the British Antarctic Survey Institute, who identified holes in the ozone layer in Antarctica, died at the age of 82.
Medicine - Health
Detection of new viruses that cause dengue
Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, USA, said dengue has killed two people in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2009 and seriously sick the thi…
New technology
The Netherlands built the world's largest generator to fight floods
Dutch scientists have successfully researched the planet's largest tsunami to combat floods, a phenomenon the people have been facing for several thousand years.