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Scientists Find Quadruple Helix DNA in Human Cells
While traditionally we think of only double helix DNA, scientists from Cambridge University in England have made an interesting...
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Loneliness, Like Chronic Stress, Taxes the Immune System
New research links loneliness to a number of dysfunctional immune responses, suggesting that being lonely has the potential to...
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A River Ran Through it (3.5 Billion Years Ago)
New astonishing pictures by the European Space Agency have revealed a 1,500km long and 7km wide river that once...
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Time for Science to Seize Political Power
In your wildest dreams, could you imagine a government that builds its policies on carefully gathered scientific evidence? One...
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‘Planetary Parks’ Could Protect Space Wilderness
It’s a wilderness out there in outer space. And as robotic surrogates set the stage for human footprints on...
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Global Warming Is Changing Our Daily Life in the U.S.
A special panel of scientists issued a report detailing the dozens of ways how climate change is already disrupting...
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A Supercomputer Fit to Dominate the Cosmos
It may not be self-aware (yet) but this computing monster is ready to take over the world. Well, at...
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Mathematicians Aim to Take Publishers Out of Publishing
Mathematicians plan to launch a series of free open-access journals that will host their peer-reviewed articles on the preprint...
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Personal Genomes Could Soon Be Public Information
Anyone who’s generously given their DNA to genomic research under the assumption that their personal biological code would be...
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The Delights of Disgust
Disgust is the subject of numerous recent works in widely different areas of philosophy, including moral and legal philosophy,...