The US State of Florida, on May 1, 2024, became the first state in United States to officially ban lab-grown meat. Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law, banning the manufacture and sale of lab-grown meat also called cultured Read More …
The UN nuclear energy body, International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, has invited Nigeria’s Centre for Energy Research and Training, CERT, to participate in the Response and Assistance Network, RANET. RANET is a global system for the provision of international assistance, Read More …
The Columbia shuttle disaster of 1 February, 2003, when seven NASA astronauts died 200,000 feet from home as their spacecraft disintegrated on re-entering the Earth. Also remembered are the seven crew of the Challenger space shuttle who died seconds after Read More …
Researchers in the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge University have found, what is believed to be, the strongest evidence of life outside Earth and our Solar System. The evidence of life was found in the planet called K2-18b, which has Read More …
Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos’ commercial space tourism company, had its 11th human flight to the edge of space with an all-female crew on 14 April, 2025. The crew of six had pop star Katy Perry, journalist Lauren Sanchez, former NASA Read More …
The Moon completes a revolution round the Earth in 29.5 days. On the average, the Moon is 238,855 miles (384,400 km) away. Its orbit is elliptical or oval (not circular) and the distance from Earth can be 405,504 km at Read More …
Science World specially pays tribute to the great women scientists whose discoveries were stolen or not commensurately appreciated as those of their male counterparts. You are all true heroines. Marie Salomea Curie, nee Sklodowska, (1867 – 1934) stands out for Read More …
Paul Alexander, ‘The Man in the Iron Lung,’ died on 11 March, 2024, aged 78 years. He was infected with polio in 1952 at the age of six, which paralysed him from the neck down. He thereafter, lived in a Read More …
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 – 1543), a Polish Church cannon, in 1514 was the first to write and circulate discreetly, the arguments that the Earth is round, the Sun stationary and that all the planets rotate round the Sun. It was Read More …
A man, Ayoola Idowu of Ekiti State, southwest Nigeria, has lost sight in both eyes after radiotherapy to remove a tumour in his jaw. He claimed to have undergone three radiotherapy regimes and that his eyes were not shielded during Read More …
