Sequencing DNA from individual cells is changing the way that researchers think of humans as a whole.
It’s Okay To Be Smart is a blog and a YouTube show about science. But it’s probably not about science the way you’re used to it. From the blogger and host, Joe Hanson, Ph.D: “I have a Ph.D in biology, and my mission in life is to tell the world about the awesomeness of ALL…
Swimming in schools allows fish to detect threats more easily, and new research — in which fish were placed in something of a video game — suggests schooling behavior actively deters predators.
Confidence can boost or bust group decisions
UN climate talks in Doha are lurching to a close with key issues unresolved. There are outstanding disputes on finance, compensation for climate change damages and allocations of carbon permits – so-called hot air. Developing countries are furious at what they say is a lack of ambition among richer countries to tackle climate change. And…
A new way to find a star’s age can give clues to how our Milky Way galaxy built itself up over billions of years from smaller galaxies, a U.S. astronomer says. Using a new technique, Jason Kalirai of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore has examined the burned-out relics of sun-like stars, called white…
A pulsar that randomly and without warning dramatically changes its pattern of radio wave and X-ray emissions has surprised a team of astronomers, who wrote that it “challenges all proposed pulsar emission theories.” Pulsars are spinning stars the size of a small city, with a mass roughly comparable to our Sun. They have a strong…