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The age of the universe may have been overestimated by more than a billion years, forcing scientists to rethink how we got from the Big Bang to today.
In 2016, two seemingly unrelated events conspired to make Kim Cobb confront her personal carbon footprint. First, a massive El Niño event hit the coral reef ...
Last month, the House Appropriations Committee of the U.S. Congress began drafting its Fiscal Year 2020 funding bill. Among the promising news is the ...
Coffee, boon or bane? Its effect seems to be highly individual. The latest wrinkles in coffee science are that its polyphenol *content* can reduce the risk of ...
Thousands of scientists, educators, and students swamped the streets of Brazil this week to protest cuts in education and research funding. Marches occurred ...
As a student at Smith College, Marjorie Davis became interested in biology, but the college had no science major and suggested instead a tutor. She transferred ...
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA—A hacked message in a streamed song makes Alexa send money to a foreign entity. A self-driving car crashes after a prankster ...
After the second world war, the belief that differences between so-called 'races' are genetic became taboo. Now, with the far right resurgent, it's back.
In 2016, two seemingly unrelated events conspired to make Kim Cobb confront her personal carbon footprint. First, a massive El Niño event hit the coral reef ...
Four scientists involved with the Event Horizon Telescope project that successfully captured the first image of a black hole went to Congress.
Supporting tumor suppression. The protein PTEN is a phosphatase and tumor suppressor whose activity is often decreased in human cancers. Thus ...
A plant's view of what humans call allergens in pollen grains involves a lot of crucial biology. And sex.
Speech perception in crowded environments is challenging for hearing-impaired listeners. Assistive hearing devices cannot lower interfering speakers without ...
The latest discovery in a cache of ancient Burmese amber has revealed something completely unexpected: an extinct squidlike organism called an ammonite, ...
Editor's note: This commentary is by David Flemming, who is a policy analyst at the Ethan Allen Institute. Last fall, the Vermont Department of Health announced ...
The U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) in Bethesda, Maryland, will halt funding next year for its long-running Centers of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence ...
Every half-million years, a new species switches to human hosts.
When describing research in grant proposals, female life scientists use narrower, more topic-specific language than male applicants, resulting in lower reviewer ...
BILLINGS – A passion for science and sports inspired an MSU Billings alumnus to make a six-figure donation for scholarships at his alma mater. The MSUB ...
Autism manifests in many ways. Despite that diversity, the disorder seems to affect specific cellular pathways, including those observed in the neocortex of ...
Protein design has achieved success in finding sequences that fold to very stable target structures. Protein function, however, often requires conformational ...
Scientists have created a living organism whose DNA is entirely human-made — perhaps a new form of life, experts said, and a milestone in the field of synthetic ...
There are two types of people in the world: those who believe in the Myers-Briggs personality test and those who don't. Except that's not true. Grouping people ...
For the better part of a century, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) preserved public health by rigorously applying the scientific method. The central ...
Fifty years after the first moon landings, a new generation of space travellers, from Xi Jinping's taikonauts to Jeff Bezos, are racing to colonise our nearest ...
When Martin Lohse, scientific director of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine here, welcomed participants to the kick-off meeting for a massive ...
Oral vaccines could give wild bats a better chance at surviving white nose syndrome, the fungal disease that has ravaged bat colonies in North America. In lab ...
Protons are complicated. The subatomic particles are themselves composed of smaller particles called quarks and gluons. Now, data from the Large Hadron ...
Something about the industrial processing of food makes us more likely to overeat, according to a new study. Volunteers ate more and gained more weight on a ...
Researchers may have demonstrated a novel way to protect us from some of the world's deadliest viruses. By genetically engineering immune cells to make ...
Scientists from labs across Argentina stayed home today, joining a nationwide strike against the government's latest round of austerity measures. One of their ...
Plants produce an abundance of structurally complex terpene compounds that are useful precursors to pharmaceuticals and other fine chemicals. However, the ...
A recent study of a science grant application process at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation found male applicants received higher scores than women, even ...
Breaking with their 156-year history, members of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) today voted overwhelmingly in favor of amending the elite ...
A new artificial intelligence seems to share our intuitive ability to estimate numbers at a glance.
The much-admired system to review grant proposals at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, has become the latest flashpoint in a ...
When the ancestors of cave fish and certain crickets moved into pitchblack caverns, their eyes virtually disappeared over generations. But fish that ply the sea at ...
In the 1970s, Rich Isaacson was presented with what seemed like a crazy idea: using lasers to detect gravitational waves. It became the biggest project the ...
A small group of Michigan residents, including (right to left) Lynn McIntosh, A. J. Birkbeck, Janice Tompkins, and Rick Rediske, tracked widespread ...
Louis Brandeis imagined that states could serve as laboratories of democracy. At the moment, they are serving as a bunch of mad scientists. The Supreme Court ...
A study of fossilized teeth shifts the age of the last common ancestor between Neandertals and humans.
If you didn't already have enough reason to eat your vegetables, this new study says that broccoli contains an amazing ingredient which could be the “Achilles' ...
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - Did you know you can make your own cloud? Science Central Executive Director Martin Fisher shows the First News Sunday team ...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) would get a 7% budget increase, and NASA a 3.8% bump, under a 2020 spending bill approved today by an ...
Decades of early research on the genetics of depression were built on nonexistent foundations. How did that happen?
Prof William C Campbell bursary open to Leaving Cert students in disadvantaged areas.
Tiny robot swarms that deliver drugs and help perform operations inside the body have long been a dream of scientists and science-fiction writers alike. But the ...
In air-breathing vertebrates, the circulatory and pulmonary systems contain separate networks of channels that intertwine but do not intersect with each other.
Vertebrates are typically thought to have a consistent system for processing light, in which multiple cone opsins permit color vision during the day, but a single ...
By manipulating light with tiny structures, patches on peacock spiders appear superblack, helping accentuate the arachnids' bright colors.
National Academy of Sciences president Marcia McNutt spoke to grads at BU's 2019 Commencement.
Adam Kuspa tries to anticipate queries from his institution's largest source of research funding, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland.
In 1970, when David Warrell was a young hospital clinician in northern Nigeria, he faced three horrifying snakebite cases in quick succession that would change ...
During the 2018 eruption of Kilauea Volcano, when fissures erupted and lava flowed in the lower East Rift Zone, many Puna residents were displaced from their ...
If you go to New York City, you must go to the American Museum of Natural History and see its remarkable new Tyrannosaurus rex exhibit. I was so intrigued by ...
Seven current and former female employees have sued officials at a global health institute that is part of the Mount Sinai Health System's Icahn School of ...
Here's the open line, but first: U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton continues to land network airtime to espouse views even more extreme than those of Donald Trump, today ...
In the middle of an explanation about a band of nerve fibers in our brains, Josh Kornbluth has a question. He grabs his phone. “Siri, do animals have a corpus ...
Scientists link bouts of intense rainfall and drought around 8600 to 6000 years ago to declining numbers of South American hunter-gatherers.
Plasmonic metasurfaces are a promising route for flat panel display applications due to their full color gamut and high spatial resolution. However, this ...
SHANGHAI, CHINA—The spread of African swine fever (ASF) in Asia is taking a worrisome turn. First reported in northeastern China in August 2018, the highly ...
Nine students from the Maine School of Science and Mathematics attended the 2019 VEX Worlds Robotics competition in Louisville, Kentucky, April 23-28.
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) — What's up with all of this Bay Area rain in May? For anyone fascinated with Bay Area weather, this has been a good week to do ...
Students of Syracuse Academy of Science attended their junior-senior prom Friday evening, May 17, 2019. The event had “A Night Under the Stars” theme and ...
New tools are aiding the age-old quest for a precious pigment.
There's no denying that keeping livestock has deeply benefited humanity over the millennia. But, while sheep and cows may have adapted well to farm life, ...
Many pesticides have an inherent weakness: The active ingredients don't adhere well to the plants they protect. After the chemicals are sprayed onto crops, rain ...
A tale of tadpole tail regeneration. Some vertebrates, including some amphibians, show a remarkable, if sometimes restricted, ability to regenerate lost ...
In 1995, astrophysicist Carl Sagan published the book, "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark." It was Sagan's attempt to separate ...
The International Space Station (ISS) has never been known as a hotbed of science, even though the United States and partner nations spent more than $100 ...
Anti-abortion laws lean on the heartbeat as a defining moment of aliveness. But at six weeks, it indicates little more than cells and electrical activity.
Methane is an important fuel, but there are few direct transformations to partially oxidized products. Bacteria use metalloenzymes to catalyze methane oxidation ...
BERLIN—German research organizations cheered a decision announced today by state and federal ministers to increase research budgets by 3% a year for the ...
Wind-driven waves are growing fastest in the Southern Ocean, new study says.
Trees, from the mighty redwoods to slender dogwoods, would be nothing without their microbial sidekicks. Millions of species of fungi and bacteria swap ...
Pressure to publish and an unfortunately timely email led this assistant professor astray.
Nearly a year in space changed Scott Kelly's genes, brain function and more, NASA's Twin Study shows.
There's a hole in the Martian atmosphere that opens once every two years, venting the planet's limited water supply into space — and dumping the rest of the ...
Brazil, home to one of the planet's last great forests, is currently in trade negotiations with its second largest trading partner, the European Union (EU). We urge ...
The brain of former WWE Superstar Ashley Massaro may be donated to a prominent doctor who researches chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, ...
"The Big Bang Theory" is undeniably popular and influential in shaping public attitudes to science and scientists, and yet there are few books that explore the ...
Two frequently asked questions about how climate warming will affect the environment are whether windiness might change and what effects that might have on ...
The history of sex is a very long and interesting one. But do we know when it first started and how? Let's find out.
Free-flowing rivers are an endangered species on Earth. Only about a third of the world's longest rivers still flow freely along their entire lengths, unchained by ...
When did anti-abortion state lawmakers decide that any means — even junk science — is a proper way to justify their ends? And why are Republican legislators ...
The future of lithium is electrifying. Cars and trucks powered by lithium batteries rather than fossil fuels are, to many people, the future of transportation.
Nearly seven years after the Harvard Business Review first gave it the title, Data Scientist is still arguably the sexiest job out there. LinkedIn reports that demand ...
Organic-inorganic perovskite films can boost the output of conventional silicon solar cells in tandem geometries by utilizing more of the light at the blue end of ...
Mars is shaking. After several months of apprehensive waiting on a quiet surface, NASA's InSight lander has registered a sweet, small sound: the first marsquake ...
Underrepresentation of women scientists in the public sphere perpetuates the stereotype of the white male scientist and fails both to reflect the true diversity of ...
Scientists in Cambridge plan to set up a research centre to develop new ways to repair the Earth's climate. It will investigate radical approaches such as ...
The data behind the promising trial of a drug that blocks the production of a mutant protein that causes brain damage in people with Huntington disease—an ...
About 14,000 years ago, a party of five barefoot people — two adults, one preteen and two children — walked and even crawled through a dark passageway in ...
The 15 men, women, and children discovered in a 5000-year-old mass grave near the southern Polish village of Koszyce must have suffered brutal deaths: Each ...
Lucy Jones thinks we're not hearing the message about climate change well enough—so she set it to music. And while the planet's warming, the song she ...
Just a month into a renewed observing campaign with a trio of detectors, physicists today announced they have spotted more gravitational waves—fleeting ...
Between the two extremes of ballistic and diffusive lattice thermal transport is the potential for an exotic wave-like state known as second sound. Huberman et al.
The golden eagle has been hunted and revered by human cultures for thousands of years. Yet this may not have been a uniquely human ...
Great swathes of the solar system should be preserved as official “space wilderness” to protect planets, moons and other heavenly bodies from rampant mining ...