Bioterrorism To Kill 30M In The Near Future, Warns Bill Gates
Feb 21, 2017 07:01 am UTC| Science
He might be most well-known for founding the international tech behemoth Microsoft and for having the title of richest man in the world several times, but Bill Gates is also an active player in the health industry. Most of...
Scientists Created Foldable Shields That Can Stop Bullets, Light And Portable Protection
Feb 20, 2017 05:10 am UTC| Science
Law enforcement officials are facing constant danger as part of their duties, which is why they need all the protection that they can get. Body armor, helmets, and padding are all provided to police officers, FBI agents,...
We need to think about redefining citizenship in the Anthropocene
Feb 18, 2017 00:33 am UTC| Insights & Views Science
The hottest year on record was 2016. It was also the year scientists advised that Earths citizens were now living in the Anthropocene, the name proposed for an epoch in which humans influence geology and environment on a...
Five of the most explosive non-nuclear chemicals ever made
Feb 18, 2017 00:24 am UTC| Science
A chemistry department at a British university was recently evacuated after a student made the known explosive, TATP. The chemical, tri-cyclic acetone peroxide, or TATP, was made by accident as the product of a...
Organoids - the future of medical research
Feb 17, 2017 17:36 pm UTC| Science
Most of the research behind new medical advances is carried out using either animal tissues or cancer cells. Both tools have their problems: results from animals and humans do not always match up and cancer cells grown for...
Organic molecules found on giant asteroid Ceres – why that's a such a huge deal
Feb 17, 2017 01:59 am UTC| Science
Sometimes, I think scientists are just that little bit too modest. A new paper in Science has a humdinger of a title: Localized aliphatic organic material on the surface of Ceres. It doesnt exactly trip off the tongue and...
If atoms are mostly empty space, why do objects look and feel solid?
Feb 17, 2017 00:34 am UTC| Science
Chemist John Dalton proposed the theory that all matter and objects are made up of particles called atoms, and this is still accepted by the scientific community, almost two centuries later. Each of these atoms is each...
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