October 3, 2018In field studies carried out in China and Japan, the rice that was grown in air with elevated CO2 concentrations contained significant nutrition losses.
October 3, 2018Weird and wonderful inventions created by real scientists for the Ig Nobel Prize - or "anti-Nobels" - designed to make people "laugh first and think later".
October 2, 2018Five years after being paralysed, a man in the US has learned to walk again aided by an electrical implant, in a potential breakthrough for spinal injury sufferers.
October 1, 2018Scientists say they have succeeded for the first time in wiping out an entire population of malaria-carrying mosquitoes in the lab using a gene editing tool to programme their extinction.
So-called gene drive technology works by forcing evolution's hand, ensuring that an engineered trait is passed down to a higher proportion of...
October 1, 2018Endangered orca whales exclusively eat chinook salmon. And the chinook eat a forage fish that is known as sand lance. If this forage fish disappears, the salmon will disappear.
September 28, 2018A recent partnership between Dell and Lonely Whale Foundation seeks to divert plastics from the ocean and using the waste in other products.
September 21, 2018A former drummer in a punk band, billionaire Yusaku Maezawa is tentatively planning to make his moon flight in 2023 aboard SpaceX’s forthcoming Big Falcon Rocket spaceship
September 1, 2018Over the last 40 years, ever since the first IVF baby was born in England, the science and technology behind this procedure has grown by leaps and bounds.
August 23, 2018Accessing the archive of her social media account reminded her not only of hilarious photos and conversations but also that life is waiting to be lived beyond the bits and bytes.
June 8, 2018Moon tours have been put on hold for now, as technical and production challenges are disrupting founder Elon Musk’s plans for human exploration of the solar system. The project could possibly continue in the middle of next year..
June 2, 2018Unlike secondhand smoke that lasts a short time after a cigarette is consumed, third-hand smoke lingers in the environment by sticking to clothing, upholstery, walls and surfaces.
May 28, 2018Research suggests that every time hominids get to a new continent there is an extinction event, and that extinction is always large-bodied mammals.
May 7, 2018US surgeons have performed the most complex penis-scrotum reconstructive procedure ever on a soldier whose genitals were destroyed in a bomb blast. Though the transplant was a success, doctors say there were some ethical issues too.
April 30, 2018Environmental rules have protected US marine life from seismic blasts for decades. Now, Donald Trump and Republicans are removing those safeguards in favour of oil companies.
April 25, 2018An American researcher has developed a camera that mimics the way shrimp see, providing an "underwater GPS" that may improve ocean studies and rescue efforts of those lost at sea.
April 18, 2018Scientists from Columbia University have presented new evidence that the brain continues to make hundreds of new neurons a day, even after you reach your 70s.
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