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    From :- BBC World News     By:-  Victoria Gill  ( Science correspondent, BBC News)    Edited by :- Amal Udawatta                                                            Watch: Experts dispute claims dire wolf brought back from extinction There is a magnificent, snow-white wolf on the cover of Time Magazine today - accompanied by a headline announcing the return of the dire wolf. This now extinct species is possibly most famous for its fictional role in Game of Thrones, but it did exist - more than 10,000 years ago - when it roamed across the Americas. The company  Colossal Biosciences is behind today's headlines . It announced that it used "deft genetic engineering and ancient DNA" to breed three dire wolf puppies and to "de-extinct" the species. But while the young wolves - Romulus, Remu...

    Reporting by Roxanne Liu, Ella Cao and Ryan Woo;      Editing by Josie Kao, Grant McCool and William Mallard,     Blog Editor - Amal Udawatta The success could boost investor confidence in methane as a potential rocket fuel, which is deemed able to help slash costs and support reusable rockets in a cleaner and more efficient way. Several private Chinese rocket startups have lined up test or commercial launches, aiming to prepare their products for the increasing demand in China's expanding  commercial  space industry, amid growing competition to form a constellation of satellites as an alternative to Elon Musk's Starlink. Zhuque-2 Y-3 blasted off at 7:39 a.m. (1139 GMT on Friday) from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in China's Inner Mongolia region, becoming the third LandSpace test rocket for Zhuque-2, and the first that succeeded in lifting satellites. A second attempt, without real satellites, in July made LandSpace the world's first c...

  By Georgina Rannard BBC Climate and Science Reporter, Edited by - Amal Udawatta, IMAGE SOURCE, ROYAL SOCIETY Image caption, Fossil hunters on the south coast of England sent pictures of their finds to scientists One of the first scientific findings signed by a woman is now online for the public to see for the first time. Martha Gerrish's descriptions of the stars in 1734 joins discoveries by Isaac Newton, Victorian fossil hunters and pioneer photographers. The documents have been digitised by the scientific institution the Royal Society in London. It hopes it will lead to more discoveries as researchers use the archive. Around 250,000 documents can now be viewed online, covering everything from climate observations, the history of colour, how to conduct electricity, and animals. You can access the online archive  here.  We have picked out some of the highlights: First letter signed by a woman In 1734 a woman living in New England called Martha Gerrish wrote to the Royal...

          From - Kanowble Magazine           By - Carolyn Wilke,          Edited by - Amal Udawatta,                     Researchers Sara Klaasen and Andreas Fichtner splice optical fibers in the back of a vehicle atop an                                        Icelandic glacier. It is tricky work for cold hands in a harsh environment.                            CREDIT: HILDUR JONSDOTTIR               Fichtner, a geophysicist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, is one of a cadre of researchers using fiber optics to take the pulse of our planet. Much of this work is being done in remote places, from the tops of volcanoes to the bottoms of the s...