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A panel has made mitochondrial replacement techniques (MRT) permissible. The panel consisting 12 top bioethics experts from Johns Hopkins, Caltech and Harvard released its report on Wednesday, which allow researchers to conduct clinical investigations of MRT. However, certain strict conditions are framed for avoiding ethical and religious concerns. The final approval rests with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

In an announcement today, the Luxembourg Government has said that they have decided to take steps to become hub for mining space resources of Europe.

The tiny European country is looking forward to establish the essential legal and regulatory framework and spend in linked research and development projects. They have also in mind to invest in already-established asteroid mining companies such as the US-based Deep Space Industries and Planetary Resources.

A new research has revealed that the low-frequency noises generated by ships might be posing a threat to the endangered southern resident killer whales (SRKW), including orcas, and dolphins. It is a known fact that the underwater low-frequency noises, whose intensity is enhanced by commercial shipping activities, are obstructing the communication and feeding patterns of baleen whales.

NASA’s crewed Mars mission has been grabbing headlines since its announcement. Now, a House Committee gave a jolt to the space agency’s Journey to Mars initiative by saying that the space program needs a clearer plan to taste success in the deep space mission.

Members of the committee on Science, Space, and Technology said during a special hearing that current Mars plan of NASA doesn’t seem feasible for a long-term space mission. They also said that the space agency requires a huge amount of fund for the voyage- much more than it is currently receiving every year. Some, attending the hearing, also suggested that NASA could rethink about its Mars mission, or divert its attention to the moon before Mars.

Your favorite food may be something like pizza, but our ancestors, prehistoric cave-dwellers, never had such delicious nourishments. A new discovery at Qesem cave site in Israel has revealed that prehistoric human’s meals included a lot of tortoise.

The cave has been a site of research on early humans since it discovery over 15 years ago. Researchers found clues suggesting that ancient man occupied the cave more than 200,000 years ago, and enjoyed munching on roasted tortoise. They concluded that after finding remains at the cave’s levels.

About the archeological discovery at the Qesem cave site, archaeologist archaeologist Ran Barkai said, “The evidence shows they regularly ate turtle. It was a sort of supplementary dish, maybe like a dessert or an opener to dinner”.

‘Flying Saucer’, a planet-forming disk surrounding a young star, contains extremely cold planetary building blocks, so cold that these do not jive with current planetary formation models.

Astronomers have found that the star, named 2MASS J16281370-2431391, is some 400 light-years away from Earth in the Rho Ophiuchi star formation region. Sporting a protoplanetary disk edge-on to us, the star comprises a glowing halo with a dark band at the centre. The dark band is the one that has perplexed astronomers.