Science

News Hour: Rubisco is the central enzyme responsible for photosynthesis in plants, it enables them to absorb carbon from the atmosphere, which they depend upon to live and grow. But until now, the extent of natural...

News Hour: Rice, or Oryza sativa as its scientifically known, feeds more than a third of the globe. Yet the majority of rice crops that supply 90 percent of the world come from just two domesticated...

News Hour: Humans have trained a range of species to help them find food: examples are dogs, falcons and cormorants. These animals are domesticated or taught to cooperate by their owners. Human-animal collaboration in the wild...

News Hour: A new U of T Scarborough study has identified “superstar” varieties of rice that can reduce fertilizer loss and cut down on environmental pollution in the process. The study, authored by U of T...

News Hour: Experience in trading changes how the human brain evaluates the sale of goods, muting a well-established economic bias known as the endowment effect, according to researchers at the University of Chicago. The findings, to...

News Hour: An international team of astronomers has discovered and confirmed a treasure trove of new worlds using NASA’s Kepler spacecraft on its K2 mission. Out of 197 initial planet candidates, scientists have confirmed 104 planets...

News Hour: Newly discovered fossil evidence from Namibia strengthens the proposition that the world’s first mass extinction was caused by “ecosystem engineers” — newly evolved biological organisms that altered the environment so radically it drove older...

News Hour: Working on recent inventions is the passion of a team of Brac University Bangladesh. One of the recent work of this team is Mars Rover. The word “Mars Rover” means a boat for Mars...

News Hour: Women In Digital (WIDBD) is an initiative of a Social Enterprise that has created programs to help women advance by providing access to Digital Platform. This new initiative aims to facilitate female creativity to...

News Hour: Researchers announced Wednesday they have discovered a ferocious meat-eating dinosaur in Argentina, notable for having short arms like the T-rex but hailing from a different branch of the family tree, reports BSS. The Gualicho...