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 ...
Efforts to find Europe's lost comet lander, Philae, have come up blank. The most recent imaging search by the overflying Rosetta "mothership" can find no trace of the probe. Philae touched down o...
A new research regarding healthy sleep might get you thinking twice about reading from your e-reader or tablets before dozing off at night. According to a study from Brigham and Women's Hospital, ...
Chris Lintott first met Kevin Schawinski in the summer of 2007 at the astrophysics department of the University of Oxford. Lintott had just finished a PhD at the University College of London on sta...
WASHINGTON -- At a research lab at Duke University Department of Pharmacology in 1979, a group of scientists sparked a major breakthrough in infant care from a failed experiment on rats. At the tim...
What I find most interesting about typical visions of the future isn't all the fanciful and borderline magical technology that hasn't been invented yet, but rather how much of it actually already e...
Putting space travelers into a state of deep sleep has been a staple of interstellar science fiction for quite some time, but despite originating as a far-fetched concept, the idea of using...
Putting space travelers into a state of deep sleep has been a staple of interstellar science fiction for quite some time, but despite originating as a far-fetched concept, the idea of using suspend...
Nigeria a model for quick action, scientists find Ebola. The word brings fear of an unseen and potentially lethal enemy. But there are ways to stop its spread, say infectious disease scientists. ...
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 ...
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...
