US no longer recommends Covid shots for children, pregnant women
Washington, United States - The US will no longer recommend Covid-19 vaccines for children and healthy pregnant women, Health Secretary...Health Science
Doubt cast on claim of ‘hints’ of life on faraway planet
Paris, France - When astronomers announced last month they might have discovered the most promising hints of alien life yet...Science
Private US lunar lander mission imperiled by technical snag
Washington, United States -- An historic private mission to land on the Moon was facing potential failure Monday due to...Astrobotic's Peregrine Lunar Lander blasted off overnight from Florida's Cape Canaveral, then successfully separated from its launch vehicle around an hour later.
But teams at ground control found they were unable to point the unmanned spacecraft correctly at the sun.
UAE announces its participation in Nasa’s Lunar Gateway Station
Abu Dhabi, UAE - The UAE has announced its participation in developing a module on Nasa’s Lunar Gateway Station alongside...The UAE will be responsible for developing the lunar space station's Crew and Science Airlock, a critical component for maintaining a safe environment for astronauts
This unit will act as a portal of the station, serving as the entry and exit point for missions and astronauts travelling to the Moon’s surface from the Lunar Gateway Station
India’s solar mission Aditya-L1 enters Sun’s orbit
New Delhi, India - India's solar observation mission on Saturday entered the Sun's orbit after a four-month journey, the latest success...The Aditya-L1 mission was launched in September and is carrying an array of instruments to measure and observe the Sun's outermost layers.
The latest mission by the Indian Space Research Organization is the first by any Asian nation to be placed in orbit around the Sun.
Invest Qatar launches azure open AI GPT-powered chatbot ‘Ai.SHA’
DOHA, QATAR - The Investment Promotion Agency Qatar (Invest Qatar) has partnered with Microsoft to develop Ai.SHA, an innovative AI-powered...This initiative positions Invest Qatar as one of the first investment promotion agencies (IPA) in the world to adopt advanced technology.
This will pave the way for transformative changes in professional interactions between investors and businesses in Qatar.
Saudi team discovers genetic disorder, names it Alfadhel syndrome
RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA - A team of Saudi researchers from King Abdullah Children's Specialist Hospital (KACSH) and King Abdullah International...This disorder has been named Alfadhel Syndrome, after Professor Majid Alfadhel, the leader of the research team.
The syndrome has gained official recognition and listing in the OMIM database, operated by Johns Hopkins University.
SpaceX launches secretive US military spacecraft on research mission
The Pentagon has released little information about the space drone and its mission, which was initially scheduled for December 7,...The rocket launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 8:07 pm Eastern Time (0107 GMT Friday)
It is unclear where exactly the uncrewed and autonomously operating spacecraft is headed on its seventh mission
Artists utilize technology against AI copycats
NEW YORK, US - Artists under siege by artificial intelligence (AI) that studies their work, then replicates their styles, have teamed...Created in just four months, Glaze spun off technology used to disrupt facial recognition systems.
Glaze essentially outthinks AI models when it comes to how they train, tweaking pixels in ways indiscernible by human viewers
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin sets new launch attempt for Tuesday
The company finally announced a December 18 launch from its base near Van Horn, Texas. But on the day itself...Jeff Bezos' space company has not launched a rocket since an uncrewed September 2022 crash placed its program on hold while it carried out fixes and awaited regulatory approval
Though the rocket will carry a payload of science experiments, not people, mission NS-24 must succeed before Blue Origin can return to taking thrill-seekers to final frontier
The feline frontier: NASA sends cat video from deep space
The video was beamed to Earth using a laser transceiver on the Psyche probe, which is journeying to the main...The 15-second meow-vie featuring an orange tabby named Taters is the first to be streamed from deep space
The encoded near-infrared signal was received by the Hale Telescope at Caltech's Palomar Observatory in San Diego County
Native oysters making a return to Belfast after over a century’s absence
BELFAST, UK - Long gone from Belfast's famed harbor where the Titanic was built, oysters are making a comeback thanks to...Until the early 1900s, the Belfast Lough channel was home to large oyster reefs but overfishing, disease and pollution decimated the population.
Extensive native oyster beds were abundant in European seas and humans have been harvesting them since the Stone Age.
