Milla, a five-year-old female ocelot, lies on a table after undergoing an in vitro fertilization procedure at the Texas State Aquarium in Corpus Christi, Texas, U.S., December 9, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters In the race to save the endangered ocelot, scientists are trekking the United States, pursuing fertility treatments and striving to kickstart a … Read more
Climate change is already causing all sorts of problems on Earth, but soon it will be making a mess in orbit around the planet too, a new study finds. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Climate change is already causing all sorts of problems on Earth, but soon it will be making a mess in orbit … Read more
Questions: 1. Name the type site of the Indus civilisation. A type site in archaeology is a particular place or settlement that defines the culture and/or other characteristics identified with the civilisation. 2. __________ is considered to have been one of the major cities of the Indus civilisation. Located in the Cholistan Desert in Pakistan’s … Read more
Questions: 1. The North Pacific has a plastic trash problem that popularly goes by the name X. But contrary to what it suggests, the problem is spread out over a large area and isn’t easily visible to the named eye. What is X? 2. The west of North America experiences a strange kind of tide … Read more
NBA franchise the New Orleans Pelicans are the latest American sports team to agree to play in Australia, after officials locked in a two-match exhibition series against NBL sides Melbourne United and South East Melbourne Phoenix in October. Organisers are hoping to sell out the matches at 14,000-capacity Rod Laver Arena, held on the weekend … Read more
New York Yankees ace Gerrit Cole will have season-ending Tommy John surgery on his right elbow on Tuesday. The Yankees said the 34-year-old right-hander was examined on Monday by Dr Neal ElAttrache at the Cedars-Sinai Kerlan-Jobe Institute in Los Angeles. ElAttrache, the Dodgers’ head team physician, will operate on Cole. “This isn’t the news any … Read more
Australia’s top-ranked tennis player Alex de Minaur cruised into the fourth round of the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells. The world No 10, who is seeded ninth for the ATP 1000 event in the California desert, scored an impressive 6-4, 6-0 win over Hubert Hurkacz. The spoils had been shared at one win apiece … Read more
Belle Brockhoff is “in good spirits” in a Greek hospital after a horror crash at a Snowboard Cross World Cup race in Georgia over the weekend left her with a serious back injury. The 32-year-old, who has represented Australia at three Winter Olympics, was airlifted off the slopes of Gudauri after tumbling at relatively high … Read more
Understanding how particles such as electrons travel vast distances in space or how they acquire ultra-high energy has been a long-standing puzzle in astrophysics. In fact, physicists’ picture of the manner of energy propagation in the universe is still not fully clear. On January 13, researchers with the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University … Read more
Rick Parry, the chair of the English Football League, has expressed disappointment with Kemi Badenoch for not speaking to the league before coming out against an independent football regulator, and has asked the leader of the Conservative party to consider taking “a more balanced view”. In February, Badenoch declared her personal opposition to a policy … Read more