This Sea Lizard Had a Grand Piano-Size Head and a Big Appetite

Tokyo, 24 December, /AJMEDIA/ A sea lizard with a skull the size of a grand piano died in the ancient ocean that is now Nevada. It was most likely the… Read more

Webb telescope launch again pushed back

Tokyo, 23 December, /AJMEDIA/ The launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, which astronomers hope will herald a new era of discovery, has again been pushed back until at least… Read more

Genomic sequencing: Here’s how researchers identify omicron and other COVID variants

Tokyo, 22 December, /AJMEDIA/ How do scientists detect new variants of the virus that causes COVID-19? The answer is a process called DNA sequencing. Researchers sequence DNA to determine the… Read more

BHOS students win startup competition

Tokyo, 21 December, /AJMEDIA/ The AzPlagio team of Baku Higher Oil School (BHOS) has won the EdTech Startup Competition organized by the Ministry of Education. The team won first place… Read more

Five ice-age mammoths unearthed in Cotswolds after 220,000 years

Tokyo, 20 December, /AJMEDIA/ Five ice-age mammoths in an extraordinary state of preservation have been discovered in the Cotswolds, to the astonishment of archaeologists and palaeontologists. The extensive remains of… Read more

Tokyo hospital succeeds in fetal surgery for serious heart disease

Tokyo, 19 December, /AJMEDIA/ A hospital in Tokyo has successfully conducted Japan’s first operation to treat an unborn baby for severe aortic stenosis, a serious heart disease, the hospital said.… Read more

These are the viruses that mRNA vaccines may take on next

Tokyo, 18 December, /AJMEDIA/ Tiny molecules came up big in 2021. By year’s end, COVID-19 vaccines based on snippets of mRNA, or messenger RNA, proved to be safe and incredibly… Read more

NASA Mars helicopter tallies astounding total of 30 minutes aloft

Tokyo, 17 December, /AJMEDIA/ Ingenuity has done something almost unthinkable: persevered in flight on Mars. Frigid temperatures. Rocky terrain. A thin atmosphere. Dust. NASA’s Mars helicopter Ingenuity has pushed through… Read more

Spacecraft discovers ‘hidden water’ in Mars Grand Canyon

Tokyo, 16 December, /AJMEDIA/ Who’s up for an adventure? You just need to catch a crewed spacecraft to Mars, land near a massive canyon there and go in search of… Read more

A bacteria-virus arms race could lead to a new way to treat shigellosis

Tokyo, 15 December, /AJMEDIA/ When some bacteria manage to escape being killed by a virus, the microbes end up hamstringing themselves. And that could be useful in the fight to… Read more