Scientists Can Soon Help Humans Forget Bad Memories
Jul 08, 2017 16:27 pm UTC| Science
For those who have ever had terrible experiences in their lives and just want to forget, scientists might soon have the solution. A team of Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) and McGill University researchers are...
Cure For Diabetes Very Close Now, Scientists Successfully Purge Mice Of The Disease
Jul 08, 2017 16:23 pm UTC| Science Health
With diabetes being a complex health condition, finding a cure for it naturally comes with quite a few challenges. However, scientists have recently made a huge breakthrough regarding the search for a cure by purging mice...
Bill Gates Thinks Artificial Photosynthesis Can Replace Fossil Fuel
Jul 03, 2017 22:24 pm UTC| Science
While the renewable energy industry has been doing very well recently, its still a fact that most of the world depends on fossil fuel to generate energy and for transportation. In this regard, tech pioneer and Microsoft...
New Technique Makes CRISPR Safer To Use, Better Gene-Editing Practice
Jul 03, 2017 22:24 pm UTC| Science
By now, the whole scientific community has become wholeheartedly fascinated with the gene-editing tool, CRISPR. Its the single most powerful tool of its kind and one that has a lot of potential in curing diseases and...
President Trump Hurt His Own Voters With Paris Accord Withdrawal, Study States
Jul 03, 2017 22:24 pm UTC| Science
When President Donald Trump announced that he was going to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord, his supporters cheered. However, a new study suggests that these are the same people who will suffer the most, both...
Neutron stars can reveal the universe's secrets and could be our GPS for deep space travel
Jun 30, 2017 17:25 pm UTC| Science
NASAs Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer, or NICER, is an X-ray telescope launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in early June 2017. Installed on the International Space Station, by mid-July it will commence its...
Beauty and the microscope: what science can learn from art
Jun 30, 2017 17:10 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science
As a scientist, I consider myself artistic in neither my abilities nor my observations of the world around me I am a physicist who has dedicated his career to controlled experiments, mathematical descriptions and...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects