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An experimental gene therapy for a rare skin disease sheds light on the...
Credit: Nature News & ViewsWhen the 7-year-old boy arrived at the burn center in Germany, he had already lost 60 percent of his epidermis and was being treated around the clock with morphine. The...
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The first farmers were not only well traveled, but also apparently well loved...
Credit: Balázs G. MendeThe Neolithic Period, which lasted from about 9,000 to 3,000 BC, often seems as mysterious as the famous megaliths associated with it, such as Stonehenge in England and Ggantija...
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Uber has partnered with NASA to research air-traffic management, and will...
Credit: UberRide-sharing — or should we say fly-sharing — vehicles could zoom through the skies of Los Angeles as soon as 2020. Uber unveiled today an agreement with NASA that advances the company’s...
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An undergraduate student conduction routine fieldwork discovered mammal...
Credit: Mark Witton, University of PortsmouthOn a summer’s morning in 2015, University of Portsmouth undergraduate student Grant Smith began a typical research day. He traveled to a known fossil...
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A Stanford study found that patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s seemed...
Credit: BSIP/UIG Via Getty ImagesMore than five million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s, a disease for which there is no known cure. But researchers at Stanford University report promising...
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Schools are closed, construction has halted, and vehicles have been...
Credit: Sajjad Hussain/AFP/Getty ImagesNew Delhi banned all construction, barred lorries from entering the city, and announced stringent restrictions on private car use on Thursday, seeking to combat...
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A star exploded six decades ago and somehow survived, and apparently exploded...
Credit: NASAA supernova is usually a huge explosion that destroys a star, leaving only a small remnant of material behind. But astronomers recently discovered a star that went supernova at least twice...
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The search for the ancient chemical origins of life has a new candidate — a...
Credit: Clip44 via Getty ImagesFour billion years ago, Earth was covered in a watery sludge swarming with primordial molecules, gases, and minerals — nothing that biologists would recognize as alive....
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Tesla’s Elon Musk and the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots have called for a...
Credit: alxpin via Getty ImagesThe United Nations is set to open its first official talks on the use of autonomous weapons, but a treaty governing so-called killer robots remains far off, the...
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The space agency said program delays and tornado damage to a New Orleans...
Credit: NASAThe first launch of NASA's Space Launch System, which will carry the new Orion spacecraft, should still be possible by December 2019, according to NASA officials, although a new report...
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Quasi-legal status and a lack of regulatory oversight have allowed marijuana...
Credit: Aaron McCoy/Getty ImagesMarijuana cultivation is taking a toll on the land and is on track to create an environmental crisis if left unchecked. Writing in the journal Frontiers in Ecology...
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Researchers have grafted human brain organoids into rodent brains — a...
Credit: Adam Gault/Getty ImagesEthical debates often accompany major scientific advancements. Consider the 1970s and 1980s, when in vitro fertilization research really took off. In response to...
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Experiments with mice showed that pairs of rodents established and adhered to...
Credit: Will & Deni McIntyre via Getty ImagesNearly every religion advocates a version of the Golden Rule, or the belief that you should treat others as you would have them treat you. Turns out...
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As plastic in the world’s oceans continues to rise, researchers are...
Credit: Jay Directo/AFP/Getty ImagesOver the last six decades, according to one estimate, 9.1 billion tons of plastic has been produced worldwide and 7 billion tons of it has ended up as waste. Much...
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Experiments suggest that sheep can recognize faces, a finding that may help...
Credit: University of CambridgeSheep are not usually on the short list of the world’s most intelligent animals. They seem to be more associated with insomnia cures — envisioned furry passive creatures...
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Scientists have found the oldest example of the domestication of a...
Credit: ThinkstockScientific analysis of 8,000-year-old pottery jars unearthed in Georgia offers the world’s earliest evidence of grape wine-making, dating the tradition almost 1,000 years earlier...
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Using a synthetic compound found naturally in chocolate and red wine,...
Credit: Daniel Ingold via Getty ImagesOld age is a killer. Scientists have known for a long time that incidence rates of all of the deadliest chronic diseases — cancer, diabetes, dementia — increase...
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Produced by an Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking-backed organization, the video...
Credit: Still from SlaughterbotsA graphic new video posits a very scary future in which swarms of killer microdrones are dispatched to kill political activists and US lawmakers. Armed with explosive...
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Organic farming has been promoted as good for health and the environment, but...
Credit: John Moore/Getty ImagesAdvocates of organic farming claim people’s health and the environment would be benefit if farmers stopped spraying chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and weed killers on...
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Pink solar panels convert certain types of light into energy for powering...
Credit: University of California, Santa CruzMagenta-tinted roof panes on greenhouses can capture enough solar energy to power the structure’s equipment while allowing enough sunlight to pass to grow...
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