Nazi Eugenics Should Be Confronted
Researching the history of reproductive medicine during the Nazi era is still taboo, a leading German professor told the 20th…
New Method For Introducing Transgenic Material
Biologists from Kyoto University have succeeded in producing the first animal offspring with transgenic material carried directly from sperm stem…
Photos Of Planets Outside Our Solar System Soon
An astronomer from the University of Arizona is using a novel camera to hunt for extrasolar planets. The camera has…
World’s Forests Need Disasters
Forests around the world are not the stable and unchanging ecosystems they have been assumed to be. Without the occurrence…
Massive “Blazar” Black Hole Sheds Light On Big Bang
In an article appearing on the Astrophysical Journal Letters website, astrophysicists at Stanford report spotting a black hole that’s more…
Darwinian Principles Used To Breed Winning Race Cars
University College London scientists have developed a technique that ‘breeds’ winning Formula One cars. By applying Darwinian principles to the…
Mammalian Cell Self-Organization Replicated In Lab
How do cells know to put the right spacing between ribs, fingers and toes? How do cells communicate with each…
Rising Seas & Climate Change Threaten 2 Billion
The number of people worldwide vulnerable to a devastating flood is expected to grow to 2 billion by 2050 due…
Proof For Riemann Hypothesis?
A mathematician from Purdue University claims to have proven the Riemann hypothesis, often dubbed the greatest unsolved problem in mathematics.…
Ancient Meteorite Turned Earth Inside Out
A meteorite collision nearly two billion years ago caused part of the Earth’s crust to flip inside out and left…
Tongue-Vision Allows The Blind To Lap-Up The Sights
A device that sits in a blind person’s mouth and allows them to see with their tongue has been developed…
Oral Bacteria Can Block HIV Infection
Strains of bacteria that occur naturally in the human mouth can snare the HIV virus and even cells it has…