Just days after Kyoto University biologist Shinya Yamanaka won the Nobel Prize for his discovery…
New data from WISE answers several questions about Jovian Trojans, asteroids that orbit the sun…
Near-death experiences that have been widely reported by patients now have a scientific explanation. This…
Megacities are usually defined by a total population in excess of 10 million, with an…
Silk is used by some insects and spiders to spin webs and cocoons, and now…
A powered exoskeleton might help astronauts accomplish superhuman tasks in orbit. NASA’s new X1 robotic…
Using polymers, scientists at Penn State created primitive cell-like structures that they infused with RNA,…
Computer simulations have been used to examine the sex lives of ancient hominids for many…
This flower-like structure is made out of germanium sulfide (GeS), a semiconductor material that has…
The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of Hen 3-1475, a planetary nebula in the…
When Chinese soft-shelled turtles (Pelodiscus sinensis) need to urinate, they open their mouths, according to…
Researchers have estimated that protecting all of the world’s threatened species will cost $4 billion…
The combined effort of NASA’s Swift satellite, the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton observatory, and several…
DNA sequencing is getting faster and cheaper, and clinicians are now finding uses for it…
Quantum chromodynamics is the theory that describes the strong nuclear force, how it binds quarks…
There is more and more scientific criticism over a study that claims that genetically modified…
In Samuel Arbesman’s new book The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an…
Using Curiosity’s arm-mounted Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer (APXS) instrument and the Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam)…