How did the Earth get its water? Asteroid sample gives a surprising answer
May 02, 2019 16:45 pm UTC| Science
Water is essential for life on Earth and is one of our most precious natural resources. But considering how our planet formed, it is quite surprising how much water we still have. The Earth aggregated from a cloud of gas...
Cancer Cure 2019: Dog Deworming Medicine Allegedly Helped Heal a Man’s Lung Cancer
Apr 30, 2019 10:16 am UTC| Science
A man from Oklahoma named Joe Tippens came forward with his claims that regularly taking a dog deworming medicine helped him conquer lung cancer. He expects many people to be skeptical of his story but a scientist already...
HIV/AIDS Cure 2019: Are Researchers Close to Finding a Way to End the Epidemic?
Apr 30, 2019 10:01 am UTC| Science
The human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) remains to be one of the most widespread diseases today. What makes this epidemic an even more unfortunate case is that...
Understanding the periodic table through the lens of the volatile Group I metals
Apr 27, 2019 06:30 am UTC| Insights & Views Science
The news broke that a railroad car, loaded with pure sodium, had just derailed and was spilling its contents. A television reporter called me for an explanation of why firefighters were not allowed to use water on the...
How hacking photosynthesis could fight deforestation and famine
Apr 27, 2019 06:26 am UTC| Insights & Views Science
You might not be able to stomach soybeans for breakfast, lunch and dinner, but the animals you eat do. Cultivation of the staple crop takes up an area five times the size of the UK, and 85% of that area is used for animal...
Ditch plastic dog poo bags, go compostable
Apr 27, 2019 06:23 am UTC| Insights & Views Science
We humans have a habit of avoiding our waste. We find organic waste particularly unpleasant. We bag it and dispose of it as soon as possible. Even the most environmentally conscious person would rather not handle...
Nuclear weapons might save the world from an asteroid strike – but we need to change the law first
Apr 27, 2019 06:21 am UTC| Insights & Views Science
The schlocky 1998 Bruce Willis movie Armageddon was the highest grossing film of that year. The blockbuster saw a master oil driller (Willis) and an unlikely crew of misfits place a nuclear bomb inside a giant asteroid...
Electricity from farm waste: how biogas could help Malawians with no power
What the Supreme Court is doing right in considering Trump’s immunity case
US student Gaza protests: five things that have been missed
Will Solomon Islands’ new leader stay close to China?
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects