Given that everything in the universe reduces to particles, a question presents itself: What are particles?The easy answer quickly shows... Read More
The other day I was filling up my twelve-year-old car at the gas station, and after returning the hose to the pumping unit, swore loudly. I... Read More
Moderna's vaccine against Covid-19 is strongly effective, the company said Monday, building excitement about the potential of controlling the... Read More
There was – rightfully – a lot of excitement when Pfizer and BioNTech announced interim results from their COVID vaccine trial.... Read More
The liquid that many hope could help end the Covid-19 pandemic is stored in a nondescript metal tank in a manufacturing complex owned by... Read More
Bishop Peder Winstrup died in what is now Sweden in 1679 CE, when tuberculosis (TB) was ravaging Europe. His body was placed in a cool, dry... Read More
In its 4.6 billion-year-long history, Mars has taken its fair share of punches from hurtling asteroids and careening comets. Today, the... Read More
SpaceX launched four astronauts to the International Space Station on Sunday on the first full-fledged taxi flight for NASA by a private... Read More
To date, astronomers have confirmed the existence of 4,301 extrasolar planets in 3,192 star systems, with another 5,650 candidates awaiting... Read More
A new study led by Giang Nguyen from York University in Toronto modeled the atmosphere of an exoplanet known as K2-141b—just over 200... Read More
A giant trove of ancient coffins and mummies has been discovered at the vast Egyptian burial site of Saqqara. After hinting at a big... Read More
On Monday, a press release from the transnational pharmaceutical company Pfizer dropped a rare spark of hope into the ongoing misery of the... Read More
SpaceX made international headlines this May when their Crew Dragon spacecraft blasted into orbit aboard a Falcon 9 rocket, carrying... Read More
The African continent is slowly separating into several large and small tectonic blocks along the diverging East African Rift System,... Read More
Elite runners need a specific combination of physiological abilities to have any chance of running a sub-two-hour marathon, new research... Read More
Religion hampered the diffusion of knowledge and economic development in France during the Second Industrial Revolution (1870-1914),... Read More
Researchers have developed environmentally friendly materials that could harvest enough energy from indoor light to power wireless smart... Read More
Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) have developed an improved human-skin equivalent that reproduces... Read More
The hard part of connecting a gooey, thinking brain to a cold, one-ing and zero-ing computer is getting information through your thick... Read More
The first time Karl Deisseroth used light to control brain cells in a dish, people had a lot of questions, three in particular. Can the... Read More
Now's the time to live forever. Futurologists and transhumanists are poking themselves with what molecules they can, seeing what there is... Read More
The nature of dark matter (DM) remains one of the most intriguing unsolved questions of modern physics. Astrophysical and cosmological observations suggest that DM accounts for roughly 27% of the mass-energy of the universe, with dark energy comprising 68% and ordinary baryonic matter as described by the Standard Model accounting for a paltry 5%. Read More
Advances in gene editing over the past decade have given scientists new tools to tailor the biochemistry of nearly any living thing with great precision. Because the biosphere—including trees, crops, livestock, and every other organisms—is a major source and sink for greenhouse gases (GHGs), these tools have profound implications for climate change. Gene editing is unlocking new ways to enhanc Read More