Dec 23 7 things you didn’t know about reindeer By Kristin Hugo ‘Tis the season for reindeer to occupy people’s minds -- and sweaters. But these charismatic cervines are more than holiday icons. Continue reading
Dec 22 Analysis: ‘Passengers’ is part space odyssey, part stalker flick By Nsikan Akpan Here's why this movie warrants a closer look. Continue reading
Dec 21 Watch 8:42 The sacred and the scientific clash on Hawaii’s Mauna Kea By PBS News Hour Over a thousand years ago, Polynesians followed the stars in the Mauna Kea sky on their path to Hawaii. Those stars are now of interest to astronomers, who believe the mountain's summit is the perfect spot to build a giant,… Continue watching
Dec 20 Column: Scientists isolate antimatter, shedding light on matter’s elusive twin By Igor Bray for The Conversation The researchers at CERN managed to isolate several atoms of antimatter, which may clarify a puzzle dating back to The Big Bang. Continue reading
Dec 16 Seahorses are weird, and their genome knows why By Leigh Anne Tiffany To unlock the secrets of the seahorse, scientists have sequenced its genome for the first time. Continue reading
Dec 15 WATCH: NASA successfully launches hurricane-monitoring satellites By Alison Thoet Eight NASA microsatellites tasked with tracking hurricanes dropped out of an airplane above the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday and shot into orbit around the Earth. Continue reading
Dec 15 Column: The biggest paradox Rick Perry faces at the Department of Energy By William H. Tobey for The Conversation While the Department of Defense defends us, and the Department of Treasury manages federal finances and supervises banks, the Department of Energy does not provide America’s energy. Continue reading
Dec 15 ‘Shock and kill’ therapy offers fresh hope for HIV cure, researchers say By Anne-christine d’Adesky, KQED Future of You The HIV research community is increasingly optimistic about the “shock and kill” treatment approach, which appears to remove all traces of the virus from an individual’s body. Continue reading
Dec 15 The gross ingredient that glowworms use to make sticky snares By Julia Griffin Glowworm use bioluminescent blue “butts” and a surprise ingredient in sticky threads to catch other insects for food. Continue reading
Dec 15 College students almost engineer controversial gene drive By Ike Swetlitz, STAT It’s a technology that could fundamentally alter entire populations, so how did a group of college students almost create a gene drive?… Continue reading