Himanshu Goenka

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has requested Congress for over $400 million for a new building to keep the most dangerous disease-causing microbes known to humans.

Effective Jan. 1, 2016, China changed its nearly 40-year-old policy that allowed only one child to a large number of couples in the country, and now allows them to have two children.

In its annual filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Bank of America said cryptocurrencies were “speculative or risky” products.

The Falcon 9 rocket was to carry the Hispasat 30W-6 communications satellite to orbit. SpaceX didn’t announce a new date for the launch, and gave “additional testing” as the reason for the cancellation.

The presence of water on the moon, as well as its accessibility, has ramifications for any future lunar bases that are being planned.

Brazilian researchers studied bacteria deep inside a South African gold mine, a site they called an “analogous terrestrial context” for Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa.

Researchers discovered cave paintings and symbolic artefacts in Spain that were created by Neanderthals and predate any known artistic endeavor by Homo sapiens by at least 20,000 years.

The Twitter post Wednesday from an account pretending to be of SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said he was giving away over $4 million worth of Ethereum to celebrate the launch of Starlink satellites.

South Korea is a major hub for mining and trading cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin, and had been cracking down on the industry in recent weeks with new regulations, pushing prices down.

Disposal of wastewater from the production of oil and gas in southern Kansas is done by injecting it deep underground, and that is the likely reason why earthquakes there have increased in frequency.

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter put itself in standby mode Thursday, while NASA’s Mars rover Opportunity saw its 5,000th Martian dawn Saturday.

Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, also recently expressed his dislike for bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general, saying “they will come to a bad ending.”

The two arachnid groups, funnel-web spiders and mouse spiders, were earlier thought to have diverged — evolving separately from a common ancestor — over 200 million years ago.

The interaction between photons — the constituent particles of light — was found to be attraction, and it could have implications for the future of quantum computing.

The rate of growth of the biggest supermassive black holes in the universe is much faster than the rate at which new stars are born in the massive galaxies that host them.

About 3,600 exoplanets are known to exist outside our solar system now, most of them thanks to Kepler. Some planets have also been discovered recently outside our home galaxy, the Milky Way.

Andromeda, located about 2 million light-years away from the Milky Way, is only slightly bigger, a fact that has implications for the imminent merger of the two galaxies.

Called the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway, it will be like a space station in an orbit around the moon, and is planned to be ready for human habitation by 2023.

With a changing climate and a focus on sustainability, studies suggest volcanic ash and a form of processed super-wood could be used as materials for building in the future.

NASA plans to send an autonomous submarine to Saturn’s largest moon Titan to study the liquid methane oceans on its surface.

CEO Elon Musk also said Tesla vehicles would have fully-autonomous driving capabilities in 6 months, once the car maker tests coast-to-coast drives.

The lighter skin pigmentation and hair color likely evolved less than 10,000 years ago, genetic analysis of a 10,000-year-old skull found in the United Kingdom suggested.

The species branched off from the sloughed crayfish about 30 years ago, and is made up entirely of females, all of which are natural clones of the same original individual.

The easy movement of these microorganisms, often disease-carrying, across countries and continents is not restricted to the air, because they also get deposited on the ground.

The popular pornography website Pornhub said it considers the doctored videos nonconsensual, and therefore a violation of its terms of service.

Except for those who defiantly continue to believe Earth is flat, the view from Falcon Heavy was no surprise, since the planet’s sphere-ish shape has been known since the time of the ancient Greeks.

The polar regions, which were once worst affected, have seen significant recovery of the ozone layer since the 1990s, but that isn’t the case with most of the rest of the planet.

Using Nile grass rats, researchers tested how ambient light affects the hippocampus in the brains of diurnal species — those that are awake during the day and sleep at night.

The latest number comes from the Mammal Diversity Database and are based on new and improved classification of different species, genera and families.