It is the elephant in the genomics room: can extinct species be resurrected? One bioscience firm insists they can, announcing Monday its intent to use emerging...
We live in fake times. Reality is as prevalent as it ever was, of course, but it’s becoming harder to find all the time. Perhaps nowhere...
The United Kingdom’s NHS has very recently approved a new cholesterol-lowering jab which will be offered to 300,000 people over the next three years. The drug...
Given that our first direct detections confirming the existence of black holes only took place in this century, humanity can be forgiven for not knowing a few...
There’s nothing better than a nice exfoliation to clean your parrot self after a long day. Apparently, that holds true even if you’re a parrot with...
When we take medicine, there are often unintended consequences. In the most common scenarios, these are known as side effects. But ‘side effects’ don’t begin to...
Our planet Earth is a mote of dust in the cosmos, carrying its precious cargo of all the life we know exists in the Universe, sailing...
Astronomy is a bit different from many sciences because you only have a sample size of 1. The cosmos contains everything we can observe, so astronomers...
Several gorillas at Zoo Atlanta in the southern US state of Georgia have tested positive for the COVID-19 virus, the zoo said. The western lowland gorillas...
Humans aren’t the only animals with big personalities. Individual traits, temperaments, and coping styles have been observed among an enormously diverse range of animals, including sea anemones, fish,...