Why CSI: Space will be a far greater challenge than forensic science on Earth
Nov 14, 2016 22:00 pm UTC| Law Science
At the Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation centre, NASA has just concluded the latest year-long study into the effects of long-term isolation in space. The research is primarily focused on examining...
Brains Of Adolescent Boys And Girls Process PTSD Differently Study Says
Nov 14, 2016 19:25 pm UTC| Science
A new study has revealed that the brains of adolescent boys and girls process traumatic stress in different ways. It would appear that when the brains of children were scanned after experiencing situations of extreme...
Study Says Even Physicists Are Scared Of Math
Nov 14, 2016 08:30 am UTC| Science
Math, mathematics, maths, whatever its called, it is the bane of students existence everywhere. Only a handful of people are ever good at it and even fewer are actually interested in practicing it. This is just something...
How biotechnology could offer hope for snakebite victims
Nov 13, 2016 16:02 pm UTC| Health Science
Snakebite is a major public health burden for low-income countries in tropical parts of the world. There are around 5 million bites and 150,000 deaths every year. And about 400,000 victims become permanently disabled...
Mutated Mice Made Simple, Mutant Humans Much Easier To Make Now
Nov 11, 2016 08:06 am UTC| Science
A new way to tinker with DNA has been gaining ground over the last few years, which made the creation of mutated mice a lot easier and more efficient. This new innovation is called CRISPR and it has turned Genetics on its...
Monkey Healed Of Paralysis Through Brain Implants, Humans Could Be Next
Nov 11, 2016 07:59 am UTC| Science
Paralysis is one of the most serious medical conditions that anyone could suffer, regardless of whether it is partial or full-body. However, new breakthroughs have shown that it can be cured thanks to brain implants....
We've found a new family of stars in the Milky Way that could help us work out how galaxies formed
Nov 10, 2016 22:38 pm UTC| Science
One of the most fundamental questions in modern astrophysics is how galaxies first formed. The Milky Way, the galaxy we live in, is an amalgamation of about 100 billion stars, gas, dust and enigmatic dark matter all held...