We host news of discoveries in various fields of science with the focus on space, medical treatments, fringe science, microbiology, chemistry and physics, while providing commercial and cultural contexts and deeper insight.
The surprising discovery of "square ice" which forms at room temperature was made by an international team of researchers last week. The study was published in Nature by a team of scientists from ...
Have you ever imagined what the future would be like? Here is a hint as to what the latest discoveries will unfold within our lifetime. Unfortunately, we also found some unlikely stories about the ...
Millions of patients may have taken influenza drugs that have little or no benefit to them, according to an Australian-led study. The study found that researchers paid by pharmaceutical companies ...
Seit dem Start, Wissenschaft AMAs durchgeführt wurden bis zu fünf mal die Woche, aber nie mehr als eine am Tag. Die Hauptlast der organisatorischen Arbeit fällt auf Allen's Schultern; er führt nich...
People who drive under the influence of marijuana double their risk of being in a car crash, and about one in 10 daily marijuana users becomes dependent on the drug, according to a new review. Mar...
When the Black Death was raging in Elizabethan London, some terrified citizens sought to assuage the Plague. The Queen herself ordered that anyone leaving London would be hanged. As in times past, ...
Our image shows an artist's impression of the European Extremely Large Telescope, or E-ELT, whose 39-metre aperture puts it in line to be the world's largest optical-infrared telescope. Being built...
As co-director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, David Scadden hopes to inspire his students to join the ranks of researchers who might one day cure Parkinson's or Alzheimer's or diabetes. But al...
What is the goal for the Asteroid Redirect Mission? Through the Asteroid Redirect Mission, NASA will identify, capture and redirect an asteroid to a stable orbit around the moon, which astronauts ...
The same way we need values to measure everything from temperature to time, astronomers have now developed a new stellar scale as a "ruler" to help them classify and compare data on star discoverie...
NASA's Curiosity rover has now been exploring the Red Planet for a full Martian year. Curiosity wraps up its 687th day on Mars today (June 24), NASA officials said, meaning the 1-ton robot has com...
South African scientists contributed significantly towards the knowledge base that helped an international experiment make a breakthrough in proving a particle discovered in July 2012 is a type of ...
Som denne ukens viral bilde av 35.000 hvalross proppfull på en Alaskan land minner oss, er klimakrisen fortsatt veldig mye en ting. For dem hvem savnet den, er mangel på isen tydeligvis tvang dårli...
DNA-programmed blotting paper could soon be giving doctors a simple disease test that will reveal an infection in 30 minutes for just a few pence. Researchers have proved the technique ...
