Spacetime With Stuart Gary

*Debate continues over the age of the universeNew observations by the National Science Foundation’s Atacama Cosmology Telescope have now placed the age of the universe at 13.77 billion years -- give or take 40 million years.*Signs of a new ocean opening up in AfricaScientists say a 60 kilometre long crack in the Ethiopian desert which first opened up in 2005 with the equivalent of several hundred years of tectonic plate movement in just days -- will continue spreading -- eventually forming a new ocean within the next five to ten million years.*Japan and China launch separate missions to Mars Japan and China have each launched separate missions, within days of each other -- bound for Mars.*The Science ReportScientists develop a new drug which could eradicate COVID-19 from lungs in a matter of days.The world's polar bears to be extinct by the end of the century due to climate change.Paleontologists have discovered a new species of sauropod dinosaur in northern Switzerland.Remember your pets when you go back to