Conservation International aims to plant 73 million trees in the Brazilian Amazon in the largest reforestation project ever. In the short-term, the project aims to restore 70,000 acr...
The researchers sequenced the two different pumpkin species to better understand their contrasting desirable traits: Cucurbita moschata is known for its resistance to disease and oth...
Credit: NASA At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, organisms in a Petri plate are exposed to blue excitation lighting in a Spectrum prototype unit. Scientists and engineers working on the...
However, further studies of anoxygenic photosynthesis, which does not produce oxygen, are crucial to understanding how early microbial metabolisms may have influenced the geochemical...
The expedition members hope to dive beneath the ice up to four times a day. [In Photos: Diving Beneath Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf] In addition to their scientific studies and divin...
As Kaevats pointed out, right now, self-aware artificial intelligences are so far off that there’s no reason to rush into giving robots similar rights to humans. When Bryson spoke to...
Now, researchers from the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) have created a DNA technology with two new ...
More intense rainfalls have caused flooding throughout New Zealand, as seen here in Northland. There have been many reports, such as those published by the Intergovernmental Panel on...
Small drops of micro- and nanometre dimensions have surprised researchers: they evaporate more slowly than expected from hitherto predictions, because of the ballistic energy transfe...
In their study published, which has been published in the journal Current Biology, the HRL team describes how they used non-invasive transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to...
Crisper Than CRISPR CRISPR-Cas9 has been widely heralded as one of the most important scientific developments of recent years, thanks to its capacity to make edits to the human geno...
Targeted motor and sensory reinnervation (TMSR) is a surgical procedure on patients with amputations that reroutes residual limb nerves towards intact muscles and skin in order to fi...
This study has been jointly led by Professor Jin Young Kim in the School of Energy and Chemical Engineering at UNIST in collaboration with Dong Suk Kim of Korea Institute of Energy R...
In the quantum theory of reality, particles like electrons and photons behave like waves as well, depending on how scientists measure them. In 1803, long before the conception of qua...
Protecting shells Chu and her colleagues originally set out to study the effects of ocean acidification on pteropods, rather than the ocean’s capacity to store carbon. The models th...
Low-Fat Pigs Chinese scientists have successfully used CRISPR to create twelve healthy pigs that have around 24 percent less body fat than normal. The scientists took the gene from ...
Saudi Arabia just announced plans for a futuristic megacity that will span 10,000 square miles and three countries near the Red Sea. NEOM will be an independent economic zone owned b...
The Broad Institute and MIT scientists who first harnessed CRISPR for mammalian genome editing have engineered a new molecular system for efficiently editing RNA in human cells. RNA ...
Just look at a map of Remote Oceania – the region of the Pacific that contains Hawaii, New Zealand, Samoa, French Polynesia and Micronesia – and it’s hard not to wonder how people or...
This collaborative research, involving contributions from the National Oceanography Centre and led by the Institute of Geosciences at Kiel University, (CAU), found that almost a quar...
Information among them is transmitted via a complex network of nerve fibers. But how exactly do the nerve fibers find their target region during growth? Nearly one million nerve fibe...
Science & Exploration Low-cost clocks for landing on the Moon 26/10/2017 9311 views 166 likes A European clock accurate to a trillionth of a second is set to be used on satellit...
Honolulu, Hawai?i, 5 September (IUCN) - Ocean warming is affecting humans in direct ways and the impacts are already being felt, including effects on fish stocks and crop yields, mor...
The latest country to prove its commitment to sustainable solutions is Italy. On Tuesday, the Italian Industry Minister announced that by 2025, the country plans to phase out coal po...
Using historical data as a test, the new model accurately predicted the total number of cases for each season in the U.S. from 2002 to 2016, and produced an accurate, real-time predi...