Sustainable use of natural resources: lessons from Pantanal communities
Sep 18, 2023 05:54 am UTC| Science
How can we use nature in a sustainable way? That is a question I, together with colleagues from different parts of the world, have sought to answer for a decade. We are dedicated to studying issues related to the...
NASA report finds no evidence that UFOs are extraterrestrial
Sep 18, 2023 05:52 am UTC| Science
NASAs independent study team released its highly anticipated report on UFOs on Sept. 14, 2023. In part to move beyond the stigma often attached to UFOs, where military pilots fear ridicule or job sanctions if they...
Sep 18, 2023 05:50 am UTC| Science
Earlier this month, scientists at the Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health announced they had successfully grown humanised kidneys inside pig embryos. The scientists genetically altered the embryos to remove...
Sep 01, 2023 01:38 am UTC| Science
Theres a lot of trash on the Moon right now including nearly 100 bags of human waste and with countries around the globe traveling to the Moon, theres going to be a lot more, both on the lunar surface and in Earths...
Crowd-sourced science sheds light on how new species form across space and time
Aug 25, 2023 07:58 am UTC| Science
Imagine a jungle. Its probably a lush forest, filled with different bird songs and the hum of thousands of different kinds of insects. Now imagine a tundra: barren, windswept terrain with relatively few kinds of plants or...
Aug 24, 2023 07:17 am UTC| Science
The worlds of pop culture and advanced imaging technology intersected recently when Kim Kardashian promoted a commercial whole-body magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) service on social media as a tool to detect cancer and...
New research into genetic mutations may pave the way for more effective gene therapies
Aug 24, 2023 07:17 am UTC| Science
Consider a living cell, which can have thousands of genes. Now think of these genes as dials that can be tweaked to change how the cell grows in a given environment. Tweaking a gene can either increase or decrease growth,...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects