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A Food and Drug Administration panel has recommended approval of a leukemia...
Credit: ImageFlow/ShutterstockA new type of cancer treatment that involves altering a person's genes — and could save children's lives — passed a major hurdle this week, when a US Food and Drug...
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FlatScope would be implanted between the skull and cortex in order to...
Credit: Rice UniversityThe Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a US Department of Defense agency responsible for the development of emerging technologies for the military, often puts together...
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Instead of just sending humans on a one-shot mission to look for life on the...
Credit: Cassini Model: Brian Kumanchik, Christian Lopez. NASA/JPL-Caltech. Migrated to Maya & materials updated by Kevin M. GillNASA and Elon Musk’s SpaceX are focused on getting astronauts to...
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Research has settled on a "speed rule" that holds that an intermediate body...
Credit: Tom BrakefieldIt’s not quite E=mc2, but scientists unveiled Monday a simple, powerful formula that explains why some animals run, fly, and swim faster than others. Call it the “speed rule”:...
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Spin electronics joins a variety of new techniques for moving around binary...
Credit: d1skFor many decades now, silicon has been the undisputed heavyweight champ of the semiconductor industry. They named an entire valley after it, after all. But new research out of the...
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A new study of records dating back to the late-19th century shows fewer than...
Credit: Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty ImagesGerrit de Veer could be forgiven that late in life his dreams were tormented by the sights and sounds of voracious polar bears. The 16th-century...
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A neurologist and amateur jazz musician has taken brain-powered music one...
Credit: Thomas DeuelIt’s been more than 90 years since the invention of the electroencephalogram (EEG), a web of wired electrodes positioned on the scalp to measure electrical activity in the brain....
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Rising global temperatures are melting areas of permafrost that hold enormous...
Credit: Jeff Vanuga/Getty ImagesLocked into the chilly soil of the Northern Hemisphere’s high latitudes are vast stockpiles of carbon compounds. An estimated 1,400 billion tons of carbon is believed...
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Researchers are improving the ability of robots to identify three-dimensional...
Credit: Ben BurchfielRobots are reliable in industrial settings, where recognizable objects appear at predictable times in familiar circumstances. But life at home is messy. Put a robot in a house,...
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Researchers have several leading hypotheses for what’s generating the signals...
Credit: Arecibo Observatory/NSF Strange radio signals have been spotted coming from the vicinity of a nearby star — but don't get your hopes up that aliens are responsible. On May 12, the...
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A new study of Escarpia laminata highlights the complex relationship between...
Credit: Chemo III project, BOEM, and NOAA OERAlthough the ocean covers 70 percent of our planet’s surface, to date we’ve only explored about 5 percent of it. But we’ve found some pretty amazing stuff...
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Participants in the study spotted fake photos about 60 percent of the time,...
Credit: Olena Zaskochenko/ShutterstockRecently, a fake photo of a baby girl with a sparkly piercing in a dimple on her cheek went viral and incited outrage from many who assumed the photo was real....
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A combination of materials from MIT researchers shows the benefits of...
Credit: Andrew SafonovSafe sex can be an awkward subject to talk about, but it is crucial. In 2015, less than a quarter of teenagers said that they use condoms every time they have sex. This is...
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The government and a non-profit animal welfare organization agreed to rescue...
Credit: Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty ImagesVietnam agreed Wednesday to rescue more than 1,000 bears from illegal farms across the country, in a move to end the traditional medicine trade in the...
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The discovery of sediment layers in a seaside cave represents the longest...
Credit: Earth Observatory of SingaporeWhen the December 26, 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake occurred off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, the 9.1 magnitude event — the third-largest tremor ever...
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In a first-of-its-kind study, US researchers found that four-fifths of the...
Credit: Glow Images, Inc./Getty ImagesEver wonder what happened to those old plastic toys? That cool rayon blouse? All those pudding cups? They’re probably piled up in a landfill somewhere – or worse....
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A new study supports the idea that the sculpting of Mars and its two small...
Credit: NASAThe peculiar geological features on Mars have long puzzled astronomers and planetary scientists. The north of the planet is mostly smooth lowlands while the south is higher and full of...
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As the Delaware-sized chunk of ice drifts out to sea, scientists are...
Credit: ESA via Getty ImagesThe trillion-ton iceberg that broke off Antarctica last week will not go quietly into the night. New satellite imagery reveals that the iceberg, dubbed A68, is already...
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The National Air and Space Museum is restoring the suit as part of...
Credit: National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution/Mark AvinoIn two short years, Neil Armstrong’s spacesuit will once again stand up straight and inspire us toward new space frontiers. The...
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Researchers used complex 3D nanostructures to produce holograms with the rich...
Credit: VitalinaHolograms have long captured the public’s imagination. Whether it’s Star Wars fans dreaming of holographic messages and chess games, concertgoers standing in awe before a resurrected...
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