A recent study led by the University of Hawaii states that earth is going through its sixth mass extinction. There have been five mass extinctions so far. However, all of those were caused by natural phenomena.

Earth is witnessing its sixth mass extinction, humans to be blamed: Study

If humans do not prepare for rigors of colonising outer space, astronauts may turn to cannibalism, warn two space scholars. There are numerous challenges for space colonists but the most important one is the food security, said Edinburgh University’s Charles Cockell.

Prepare for rigors of colonising outer space or astronauts may turn cannibal, say experts

A science exhibition seems to be breaking stereotypes in Switzerland. It seems to be spreading the word that gender diversity and homosexuality are not immoral or unnatural, as per a media report.

Science exhibition fights humans’ 'unnatural' homophobia in Switzerland

With the goal of 'talking' to the majestic marine animals, a project to listen to, contextualise and translate the communication of Sperm whales was recently launched by a team of international scientists.

Humans may get to talk to whales, courtesy artificial intelligence

For the first time, a kidney from a pig has been transplanted into a human. What does this breakthrough mean for the future of kidney transplants? Palki Sharma tells you.

Gravitas: These doctors planted a pig's kidney into a human

Be it the signs of life or compositions of different planets, scientists around the world have been looking for several answers. One question that comes to the mind is can humans land or live on Mercury, the closest planet to the sun in the solar system.

Can humans land safely on extreme hot or cold Mercury?

Tales of kings and queens having tigers and leopards as pets are dime a dozen. But to know that commoners reared a literally murderous bird even before chickens were domesticated by humans is something.

Before chickens, early humans reared one of the most dangerous birds: Study

Kuwaiti businessman Jassem Buabbas has spent years breeding ‘superworms’ for animal feed and now hopes the creatures will find their way into the diets of Gulf citizens.

Kuwaiti breeder hopes superworms will become new superfood 

A study has found that it is possible for humans to live up to 150 years. So, what must we do in order to live that long? What is the secret to a long life? Palki Sharma has the answers.

Gravitas | Study: Humans can live up to 150 years

Despite increasing concern over the intrusion of algorithms in daily life, a new research shows that people are more likely to rely on algorithms than humans, especially if a task becomes too challenging.

People trust computers more than humans: Study 

The progenitor of the novel coronavirus underwent 'very little change' to adapt to humans from bats, according to a new study which suggests that the ability of the virus to spread from one person to another likely evolved in the flying mammal prior to it jumping to its new human host.

Novel coronavirus jumped from bats to humans with 'very little change': Scientists 

It’s often said that dogs come to resemble their owners with time. The similarities, however, may now have extended to their risk of diabetes, a research suggests.

Dogs and their owners share same diabetes risk, study says

The ISRO will send human for the first time to space by 2022 while its ambitious project Chandrayaan 2 will be completed in 2019 with landing of an indigenous spacecraft, the space agency's chairman Kailasavadivoo Sivan said here Thursday.

ISRO to send human to space by 2022: Space agency chief

Nipah virus, spread by fruit bats, causes communicable disease and can be fatal for both animals and humans

Nipah virus: Bihar, Sikkim, MP, Puducherry issue advisories for people

There is no specific treatment for the ‘rare and deadly’ virus and is a newly emerging virus, which gets transferred from animals to humans

What is the Nipah virus?

Alibaba’s deep neural network model scored 82.44 on the Stanford Question Answering Dataset (SQuAD), beating the human score of 82.304

For first time, AI model beats humans at reading comprehension test

Encouraging tests have been conducted on both mice and monkeys, but it'll be years before humans have a finished Zika vaccine

Zika vaccine tests successful on mice

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