Category : science

by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago

12 dead in Vietnam floods, landslides

Flash floods and landslides killed at least 12 people in central Vietnam, officials said Sunday, as hundreds of troops were dispatched to clean up destroyed villages and washed out roads. Heavy rains pounded the central Khanh Hoa province over the p...

by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago

Space Thanksgiving

Earth space travellers (Steve Carell, Beck Bennet, Cecily Strong, Leslie Jones) make a discovery about the Thanksgiving feast they're sharing with their alien hosts (Kenan Thompson, Melissa Villaseñor).

by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago

Looters plunder Albania's sunken treasures

Albania's long underexplored coastal waters have become a hotspot for treasure hunters scooping up ancient pottery, sunken ship parts and other shell-encrusted relics that have lain on the seabed for centuries. "Much of this wealth resting at the de...

by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago

China’s Rules on Genes Are Too Tight

The worry now is that something similar may be happening in cutting-edge gene research. Late last month, in a move that’s largely been overlooked outside the scientific community, China’s Ministry of Science and Technology announced it had sanctione...