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In the nearly five months that have passed since Vice President Mike Pence directed NASA to return humans to the Moon by 2024, the space... Read More
The headline is not exaggeration or hyperbole. Scientific American just ran an article claiming that vegetables are becoming like sugary... Read More
The National Geographic store proclaims, “This authoritative guide to the foods, herbs, spices, essential oils, and other natural... Read More
Evolutionary approaches to psychology hold the promise of revolutionizing the field and unifying it with the biological sciences. But among... Read More
Communication gestures used by humans and our primate relatives are providing clues about how our species' ability to use spoken language... Read More
It's 2019. Prenatal genetic tests are being used to help parents select from healthy and diseased eggs. Genetic risk profiles are being... Read More
The importance of a good night's rest cannot be overstated. Poor sleep is linked to all-cause mortality, which means getting too little or... Read More
It is June 17, 1922, and two middle-aged men—one short and squat, the other tall and lumbering with a walrus moustache—are... Read More
If someone asked you to draw a planet other than ours, you would likely draw Saturn, and that is because of its rings. But for most of... Read More
When climate change comes for our coffee and our wine, we'll moan about it on Twitter, read about it on our favorite websites, and watch... Read More
A new study links fluoride consumption during pregnancy to lower IQ in children, but experts are saying it's not time to rush out and filter... Read More
At the mysterious Skeleton Lake in northern India, the dead are talking, revealing surprises through centuries-old DNA. And it's not what... Read More
Excess heat given off by smartphones, laptops and other electronic devices can be annoying, but beyond that it contributes to malfunctions... Read More
Scientists from EPFL in Switzerland and Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Italy are developing technology for the blind that bypasses the eyeball... Read More
Cornell food scientists have created a new dreamy, creamy – and very low calorie – spread for your morning toast.They figured out... Read More
Jigang Wang can break his research goals into just a few words: “To discover and control quantum states of matter.”But, it takes... Read More
Breathe it in – the air around you is roughly 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, and 1% argon. During your lifetime, you'll inhale and exhale... Read More
Researchers have shown that electrical stimulation to the skull can starve brain cancers of vital nutrient-rich blood, opening the door to... Read More
Today [August 13] the US National Academy of Sciences is hosting the first meeting of the International Commission on the Clinical Use of... Read More
This week I came across a brain stimulation device called Humm that promises to improve your cognitive function and memory if you stick it to... Read More
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Black holes are some of the most extreme objects in the Universe: the only locations where there's so much energy in a tiny volume of space that an event horizon gets created. When they form, atoms, nuclei, and even fundamental particles themselves are crushed down to an arbitrarily small volume — to a singularity — in our three-dimensional space. Read More
Today [August 13] the US National Academy of Sciences is hosting the first meeting of the International Commission on the Clinical Use of Human Germline Genome Editing in Washington, to discuss controversial applications of CRISPR to human eggs, sperm, or fertilized ova, in the wake of Chinese researcher He Jiankui announcing the birth of CRISPR twins after a similar meeting in 2017 (See Do China' Read More
