Research on mice taken to the International Space Station (ISS) has found a protein that could help combat ageing and help in the development of drugs to treat age-related diseases such as Alzheimer’s and diabetes. A joint study by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (Jaxa) and Tohoku University showed that while the mice were in ...

Artificial intelligence is able to distinguish between people who have the coronavirus simply by their coughs. The difference between cough from someone with coronavirus and a healthy one is something not discernable to the human ear, but is able to be ‘heard’ by a machine learning algorithm. Researchers from MIT took thousands of samples of ...

Mysterious, intense blasts of radio energy have been detected from within our own galaxy, astronomers have said. Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, last only a fraction of a second but can be 100 million times more powerful than the Sun. Despite their intensity, their origin remains largely unknown. Now astronomers ...

The Ministry of Health announced on Wednesday that 1888 new Coronavirus cases were registered in the country during the past 24 hours with 9 more deaths. LBCI

Tributes paid to fearless reporter described as ‘the greatest journalist of his generation’   Robert Fisk, a veteran Middle East correspondent for The Independent  and the most celebrated journalist of his era, has died after an illness. He was 74. Fisk was renowned for his courage in questioning official narratives from governments and ...

The Ministry of Health announced on Sunday that 1389 new Coronavirus cases were registered in the country during the past 24 hours. The ministry added that 6 new Coronavirus deaths were also registered in Lebanon during the past 24 hours. LBCI

Caretaker Minister of Information, Manal Abdel Samad, on Monday submitted to the Secretariat of the Council of Ministers a report detailing the incident that took place on October 28 while Télé Liban press team was covering the border negotiations in Naqoura.   It is to note that the said report ...

Caretaker Minister of Information, Dr. Manal Abdel Samad Najd, warned in an issued statement on Saturday the Lebanese media outlets against showing any work related to the state-run TV Channel, Tele Liban, without prior permission. “I call on all media to obtain prior approval from ‘Tele Liban’ before publishing, exhibiting, or re-broadcasting ...

Water could be used for humans who travel to the Moon and create permanent lunar base there, as Nasa hopes to   Water has been definitively found on the Moon, Nasa has said, and there are a set of “water traps” that could hold it stably. The research suggests that water could be distributed ...

A new IUCN report finds that an estimated 229,000 tonnes of plastic is leaking into the Mediterranean Sea every year, equivalent to over 500 shipping containers each day. Unless significant measures are taken to address mismanaged waste, the main source of the leakage, this will at least double by 2040. Based ...