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Two days before the Allied forces declared victory over Nazi Germany at the end of World War II, a high-tech German submarine set out from... Read More
Beginning in 2015, the makers of KIND snack bars found themselves in what would become a drawn out legal battle. This March, the latest drama... Read More
By knocking out genes three at a time, scientists have painstakingly deduced the web of genetic interactions that keeps a cell alive.... Read More
A recent blog post by a British Columbia naturopath is raising questions from health professionals about the practice of naturopathy, and the... Read More
Rick Potts is no atheist-evolutionist-Darwinist. That often comes as a surprise to the faith communities he works with as head of the... Read More
Almost all space missions launched so far by our civilization have been based on chemical propulsion. The fundamental limitation here is easy... Read More
To go back to the beginning, if there was a beginning, means testing the dominant theory of cosmogenesis, the model known as inflation.... Read More
In the winter of 1947, Howard Head, an aerospace engineer, was skiing down Stowe Mountain when he decided that wooden skis were a terrible... Read More
Both Uranus and Neptune are thought to contain about 60 percent of their mass in the form of water, all of it beneath the gaseous... Read More
High in the treetops of Borneo, there's an ant with a deadly secret. It can explode.On the outside, it's just an inconspicuous, brownish-red... Read More
Sixteen years.That's how long it will take before the number of women on scientific papers is equal to the number of men.Luke Holman from the... Read More
New analysis of an almost complete skull of a cow from a Neolithic site in France suggests it may have undergone cranial surgery about 5400... Read More
Some of the most exciting discoveries in evolutionary biology in recent years have shown how humans have adapted to extreme conditions, such... Read More
Diamond is well-known as the strongest of all natural materials, and with that strength comes another tightly linked property: brittleness.... Read More
The dispersal of humans out of Africa coincided with a dramatic global reduction in the size of mammals, a new study reveals. This... Read More
As Curiosity rover marches across Mars, the red planet's watery past comes into clearer focus.In early 2017 scientists announced the... Read More
Major mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, severe depression and bipolar disorder share a common genetic link. Studies of specific... Read More
Chronic caloric restriction strongly increases the lifespan of a small primate, the grey mouse lemur. This is one of the results of a... Read More
Biotech has been betting big on Crispr, the gene-editing technique that promises to snip away some of humanity's worst diseases. But last... Read More
Solar-powered self-driving cars, reusable space ships, Hyperloop transportation, a mission to colonize Mars: Elon Musk is hell-bent on... Read More
Biological evolution takes place over generations. But imagine if it could be expedited beyond the incremental change envisaged by Darwin to... Read More
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It was an exciting discovery while it lasted, but fresh observations show that evidence for a valuable insight into the nature of dark matter was, quite literally, a trick of the light.Three years ago, a team of cosmologists, primarily from Durham University in the UK, reported that observations from the Hubble Telescope revealed a galaxy that had become separated from its own dark matter. Read More
Biotech has been betting big on Crispr, the gene-editing technique that promises to snip away some of humanity's worst diseases. But last May, a small case study suggested the much-hyped technology might actually be quite dangerous—and pop went the Crispr bubble, briefly tanking shares of Crispr companies like Editas Medicine, Intellia Therapeutics, and Crispr Therapeutics. Read More
