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So, this is about as small as life can get. Scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California, Berkeley have captured the first detailed microscopic images of…
But it wasn’t until a team of researchers and scientists did a CT scana comprehensive three dimensional x-ray imagelast year, did they discover the mummy’s organs were missing. “We thought…
For years, politicians wanting to block legislation on climate change have bolstered their arguments by pointing to the work of a handful of scientists who claim that greenhouse gases pose…
More than 200 scientists working on an ambitious federal project have begun to understand the complicated system of switches that regulates genes, turning some on and others off, making some…
A team of British scientists believe they may have identified the killer blow that killed King Richard III more than 500 years ago–and they were lucky enough to catch their…
The following post first appeared on FactCheck.org. Rep. Gary Palmer falsely claimed on a radio show that temperature data used to measure global climate change have been “falsified” and manipulated….
When scientists discovered the fossilized skull of a huge prehistoric rodent six years ago in Uruguay, they could tell right away that the extinct buffalo-sized creature had freakishly large incisors….
When you stub your toe or bang your head, why is the initial response always to yell “ouch” (or something less printable)? Scientists may have the answer. New research from…
To protect migration routes, wildlife biologists at the University of Wyoming are capturing mule deer by helicopter to learn exactly where they go, what they eat and how healthy they…
During a month in which schools around the country will open their textbooks to explore the lives of the first black inventors, scientists, or astronauts, there are six black and…
Carl Djerassi, an eminent chemist who 63 years ago synthesized a hormone that changed the world by creating the key ingredient for the oral contraceptive known as “the pill,” died…
An ancient human skull fragment found in Israel may come from a close relative of the first modern humans to colonize Europe, researchers say. The finding sheds light on the…
Pew Research finds the public at odds with science on a list of key issues. Desire for a decrease in immigration is lower than it was during the Bush years….
Carl Zimmer MATTER A tumor, as strange as it may sound, is a little society. The cancer cells that make it up cooperate with one another, and together they thrive….
Using powerful optics, they have found a much larger planet-like body, J1407b, with rings 200 times the size of Saturn’s, U.S. and Dutch astronomers said. It lies some 400 light-years…
Scientists have long believed that an asteroid impact in what is now Mexico wiped out 80 percent of all species on Earth–including the dinosaurs–about 65 million years ago. But exactly…
.@BulletinAtomic moves the #DoomsdayClock three minutes closer to midnight… But what does it all mean? https://t.co/MoZ3K8uvcN “Today, unchecked climate change and a nuclear arms race resulting from modernization of huge arsenals pose…
WASHINGTON -– The world crept closer to doomsday on Thursday. That’s according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which each year updates the hands on a clock meant to…
Carl Zimmer MATTER You wouldn’t think hellbenders would be hard to find: The gargantuan salamanders, the biggest amphibians in North America, can grow up to 30 inches long. Yet hellbenders…
The open source project recently had its first major breakthrough when its softwaremodeled on the neurons of the worm’s nervous systemindependently controlled a Lego robot. The machine’s sensors, without any…
To scientists, it’s something more: evidence of the drought that is suspected to have led to the demise of the Mayan civilization. New research reinforces that theory, Rice University Earth…
FBI officials and data scientists with the U.S. cybersecurity firm Norse met Monday in St. Louis, according to Norse Vice President Kurt Stammberger and an FBI source. During the three-hour…