In the 60 or so years since stem cells were first defined, they’ve become heralds of a new...
Ed Rybicki, a virologist at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, answers: Tracing the origins of viruses is difficult because they don’t...
A UC Berkeley researcher has shown a comprehensive link between cell phone radiation and tumors, particularly in the brain. Studies show use of cell...
The molecular blueprint of life, DNA, is vulnerable to damage that can scramble the vital information that it encodes. If a cell fails to...
We define a day as 86,400 seconds, or 24 hours – the time it takes for Earth to rotate once. However, the Earth doesn’t...
NASA has classified the huge space rock as “potentially hazardous.” The asteroid will travel at a speed nearly equivalent to 20 times as fast as...
The inaugural harvest of genetically modified salmon began this week after the pandemic delayed the sale of the first such altered animal to be...
When the first baby is born off-Earth, it will be a milestone as momentous as humanity’s first steps out of Africa. Such a birth would...
Smallpox has been eradicated from the face of the Earth following a highly effective, worldwide vaccination campaign. Paralytic poliomyelitis is no longer a problem in the...
Asthma affects hundreds of millions of people around the world, but an experimental vaccine offers new hope to successfully treat this chronic lung disease,...
