New genetic modification techniques have allowed geneticists to engineer cows that secrete allergen-free milk and…
As carbon dioxide levels continue to climb in the Earth’s atmosphere, most current climate models…
On April 11th, 2012 a pair of massive earthquakes rocked the Indian Ocean. Scientists think…
For the first time, international team of astronomers has measured a black hole’s “point of…
While it may seem that melting arctic snow isn’t as dramatic as the record ice…
After having put young adults with normal vision through a battery of tests, scientists were…
Based on a new analysis of compiled data from ESA’s Venus Express, scientists have uncovered…
A team of scientists has created flexible electronic components that will dissolve inside the body…
Back in February 2003, a 65-year-old physician living near Hong Kong checked into a hotel.…
Roughly 41 million people in the USA, nearly a third of all working adults, get…
Using scanning tunneling spectroscopy, physicists studied the real-space local density of states of a two-dimensional…
[Update: Element 113 has been named Nihonium.] The Japanese have claimed that they have been…
A newly published study from Harvard scientists is the first to link amyotrophic lateral sclerosis…
There might be more ice on the Moon than was previously thought. There are permanent…
Paleontologists have discovered micrometer-scale fossils of plankton from the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, a period of…
First observed by the British astronomer William Herschel on January 14, 1778, and now seen…
Norwegian scientists have developed a method for producing semiconductors from graphene, possibly revolutionizing the technology…
A new study reports that P. acnes phages, a family of viruses that live on…