A 10-km wide asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs when it crashed into earth over 65 million years ago contains a rare metal — iridium — that could be used in the effective treatment of cancer, researchers have found. Scientists from the UK and China have demonstrated that iridium — a rare metal delivered to Earth …

In a recent research, a group of scientists have found a new and effective method to acquire viable cells from cryopreserved tissue samples, which could help researchers to collect and analyse samples from different study sites to conduct more centralized research. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic disease that causes pain, stiffness, swelling, and limitation …

Men could get pregnant as soon as “tomorrow” thanks to developments in womb transplantation, according to one of the world’s leading fertility professors. The success of womb transplants in women means that the science is now available to allow similar operations to be carried out on those who began life as men, Dr Richard Paulson, …

No two snowflakes are alike? Well, maybe not. Snow isn’t actually white That’s right. Snow is actually clear. Snowflakes are made out of ice crystals, so when light passes through, it bends and bounces off each individual crystal. The entire spectrum of light is reflected back to our eyes, and we see white snow. So …

Hot-Jupiters, like the one named CoRoT-2b pictured here orbiting close to its host star, aren’t uncommon. What’s very unusual about NGTS-1b is the tiny size of its host star. NASA/AMES/JPL-CALTECH Just in time for Halloween, astronomers announced the discovery of an exoplanetary “monster” lurking around a tiny star. Called NGTS-1b, the alien world orbits a …