Science Oct 14 The life of Sally Ride, America’s first woman astronaut, in pictures A new photobiography details Sally Ride's childhood, her early struggles with stardom and the scientific zeal of America's first woman in space.
Science Oct 12 Can your ‘brain fingerprint’ reveal how smart you are? Neuroscientists at Yale University discover a way to identify individuals and predict their intelligence levels by using brain fingerprints based on functional MRI scans.
Science Oct 07 DNA repair research wins 3 scientists Nobel Prize in chemistry Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar split the 2015 Nobel Prize in chemistry for mechanistic studies of DNA repair.
Science Oct 06 Nobel Prize awarded for changing neutrinos, the ‘chameleons’ of particle physics Takaaki Kajita of University of Tokyo and Arthur B. McDonald of Queen's University in Canada have now won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass.
Science Oct 05 2,000-year-old Chinese herbal therapy plays major role in Nobel Prize for Medicine William C. Campbell, Satoshi Ōmura and Youyou Tu win this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their research into drug treatments for parasites.
Science Oct 02 What ‘The Martian’ can teach us about the weather on Mars The Martian author Andy Weir and the NASA director of planetary science discuss the movie, Mars weather and where else people might one day live in our solar system.
Science Sep 28 Mars has flowing rivers of briny water, NASA satellite reveals NASA solves part of the mystery about water on Mars…
Science Sep 23 As a scientist, is the pope dodging the biggest contributor to climate change? Once you’re a scientist, you’re always a scientist, and Pope Francis was once a scientist. In recent years, the pope’s outspoken views on issues like the environment seem to reveal his familiarity with life in a lab. Some scientists applaud…
Science Sep 18 Take a look inside a sea level rise time machine To explore future sea level rise, scientists engineered a giant outdoor experiment at the birthplace of coastal ecology.
Science Sep 16 How rising seas could sink the sea turtle Climate change and sea level rise do more than just wash away sea turtle habitat.