Science

An estimated 1.4 billion adults aged 30 to 79 around the world had hypertension, or high blood pressure in 2024, making it nearly 33% of the population as per a WHO report. While, this data points towards the number of people who have been diagnosed with hypertension, and estimated 600 million adults with hypertension are…

Nasa astronaut Anil Menon rides the Canadarm2 robotic arm to install a solar array on the ISS, 260 miles above Earth. (Photo: Nasa) Nasa astronaut Anil Menon and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk completed a seven-hour, 11-minute spacewalk on October 29, installing and deploying the seventh roll-out solar array on the International Space Station…

For generations, Australia’s tiny native stingless honey bees have been part of Indigenous medicine. Scientists now believe they may hold clues to tackling one of modern medicine’s biggest challenges: antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Researchers at the University of Sydney examined the potential medicinal benefits of honey and propolis (a mixture of plant resin and beeswax that bees…

A two-bedroom home covering 1,078 sq ft in Saint-Rémi-d’Amherst, Quebec, has been built using structural panels made from the equivalent of about 200,000 recycled plastic bottles. The building shell was fully put together on-site in just three days. The project could offer a new way to build more affordable and sustainable homes across Canada. The…

Representative Image of Isabella Garry researching okra, fenugreek and psyllium in a school laboratory (AI-generated image) A seventh-grade student from Minnesota has tested whether gels made from common plants could absorb microplastics in a laboratory model of the stomach. Isabella Garry, from Eden Prairie, was named one of 30 finalists in the 2026 Thermo Fisher…

Nevada mine site gets a new park amid $257 million cleanup and plans for 3,000 homes (Image Credit: Nevada Division of Environmental Division) What was once a mining site associated with potentially harmful industrial waste is now making way for neighbourhood parks, walking trails and thousands of homes. In Henderson, Nevada, a former manganese mine…

Fewer than 400 bearded vultures remain in the wild across South Africa and Lesotho, and conservationist Shannon Hoffman is working to give the unusual birds a chance of survival. Through the Bred 4 the Wild Bearded Vulture Breeding Programme, Hoffman has spent more than a decade developing a specialised captive-breeding effort intended to build a…

Scientists have discovered twin and triplet embryos inside two eggs laid by a single wild Burmese python in southern Florida, marking the first recorded instance of triplet embryos in a snake. The unusual finding emerged from a clutch of 37 eggs laid on 17 May 2024 by a radio-tagged female python in Big Cypress National…

Textile residues adhering to artefacts excavated at Sanxingdui (Photos: Antiquity) Scientists examining 3,000-year-old objects recovered from the Sanxingdui archaeological site in China’s Sichuan Province have found traces of silk on 101 artefacts, including bronze masks, gold, jade and ivory objects. According to a study published in the journal Antiquity on Sunday, researchers used microscopic and…

A 42-year-old man in Russia discovered that a seed had sprouted inside his eye after suffering months of agonising headaches, inflammation and double vision. Maxim Sleptsov, a welder and plumber from Siberia, reportedly sustained the injury when a branch struck his face during a summer trip to a remote district. Although he rinsed his eye…