Stephen Hawking (NASA HQ) By Ben Blanchard | BEIJING / 10.19.2016 Artificial intelligence has the power to...
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Galileo demonstrates a telescope to the doge of Venice. Giuseppe Bertini By Dr. Vera Keller / 10.04.2016...
Harvard Junior Fellow Caroline Robertson is the lead author of a study that suggests a person’s brain...
By Jennifer Delgado Suárez / 10.02.2016 Psychologist Can We Thank Our Mums For Our Brain Power? Smart people...
Researchers have identified a new mechanism controlling brain development: that neurons not only ‘smell’ chemicals in their...
Researchers have identified the role that a four-stranded version of DNA may play in the role of...
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Will China be the first to genetically enhance future generations? Jianan Yu/Reuters By Dr. G. Owen Schaefer...
By analyzing tiny air bubbles in halite, researchers determined ancient Earth had much more oxygen than previously...
By Dr. Bruce Lipton and Dr. Deborah Sandella What can our cells tell us about the...
Satellite image of California’s San Andreas fault, where two continental plates come together. NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER...
By Jacob Devaney / 06.25.2016 How to Release this Hormone to Live a Happier Life What does...
Over the last fifty years, long-term studies following individual animals over entire lifespans have allowed insight into...
Can new ideas break through preconceived notions? Light bulb image via www.shutterstock.com. By Dr. Igor Juricevic / 06.13.2016...
By David McRaney In a way, you can simply will yourself into a new physical form –...
By Jacob Devaney Founder and Director of Culture Collective Knowing how to identify your brainwave state is...
An approach that could reduce the chances of drugs failing during the later stages of clinical trials...
Colonies of E. coli bacteria. CDC/Handout via Reuters By Jessie Schanzle / 05.31.2016 Editor On May 26,...
By Dr. Peter J. Bowler Professor of Biological History Queen’s University, Belfast Editor: Paul Ziche Copy Editor:...
NASA / 05.23.2016 Our sun’s adolescence was stormy—and new evidence shows that these tempests may have been...
© Parkin Parkin For decades, unidentified bodies have been consigned to the back rooms of morgues and all but forgotten....
These tiny implants can attract and capture cancer cells. Joseph Xu, Michigan Engineering By Dr. Rachel...
The King’s Library / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Peter Jones Professor of History University of Birmingham, UK...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832 / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Victor Barsan and Dr. Andrei Merticariu...
Wes Mountain/The Conversation Our understanding of gravity has gone through a few permutations, from Newton’s equations through...
Researchers have built the first biologically realistic mathematical model of how the brain plans and learns when...
The term “pseudoscience” is used to imply that a person or group who is using the term...
Sunset on a Cretaceous River by Rhynn By Dr. Patrick Forber (photo) and Dr. Eric Griffith Forber...
© Job Boot Where do a zebra’s stripes, a leopard’s spots and our fingers come from? The...
Katherine Johnson worked at NASA’s Langley Research Center from 1953 to 1986. Since her retirement, she’s been...