What's on the far side of the Moon?
Apr 27, 2019 06:19 am UTC| Insights & Views Science
Looking up at the silvery orb of the Moon, you might recognize familiar shadows and shapes on its face from one night to the next. You see the same view of the Moon our early ancestors did as it lighted their way after...
Antibiotics: beneficial side effects are starting to come to light
Apr 27, 2019 06:16 am UTC| Insights & Views Science
The discovery of antibiotics in the 1920s has contributed to longer and healthier lives, and they are now being used more widely than ever before. The main reason that antibiotics are prescribed is to kill bacterial...
How did the moon end up where it is?
Apr 27, 2019 06:09 am UTC| Insights & Views Science
Nearly 50 years since man first walked on the moon, the human race is once more pushing forward with attempts to land on the Earths satellite. This year alone, China has landed a robotic spacecraft on the far side of the...
DNA as you've never seen it before, thanks to a new nanotechnology imaging method
Apr 27, 2019 06:07 am UTC| Insights & Views Science
The first revealing image of DNA taken using X-ray diffraction. Raymond Gosling/Kings College London The helical DNA staircase. The building blocks of DNA, or bases, lie horizontally between the two spiraling...
Why the idea of alien life now seems inevitable and possibly imminent
Apr 27, 2019 06:03 am UTC| Insights & Views Science
This article is an edited extract from an essay, The search for ET, in The New Disruptors, the 64th edition of Griffith Review. Were publishing it as part of our occasional series Zoom Out, where authors explore key...
Remote connections? Detangling entanglement in quantum physics
Apr 27, 2019 06:01 am UTC| Insights & Views Science
Quantum computers, quantum cryptography and quantum (insert name here) are often in the news these days. Articles about them inevitably refer to entanglement, a property of quantum physics that makes all these magical...
HIV/AIDS Cure 2019: Patients Confirmed in HIV Remission Spark Hope That Epidemic Can be Cured
Apr 24, 2019 06:56 am UTC| Science
HIV/AIDS cure is still elusive but the first half of 2019 has already been promising in this field. A second patient was confirmed to have been in HIV remission for about two years since having a bone marrow transplant a...
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