Nov 01 100 years of Mount Wilson's 100-inch telescope, the first to discover the universe By Rashmi Shivni Happy 100th birthday to the 100-inch telescope, best known for being the first to see beyond our Milky Way galaxy. That’s right, it spotted the universe!… Continue reading
Oct 28 NASA Twins Study spots thousands of genes toggling on and off in Scott Kelly By Rashmi Shivni When astronaut Scott Kelly returned to Earth after a year floating about the International Space Station, he was noticeably different from his identical twin, Mark Kelly. Continue reading
Oct 25 Watch 7:50 Why Cuba is home to a bounty of rare species By Miles O'Brien Replete with rare and endangered species, Cuba is a crown jewel of biodiversity in the Caribbean. Science correspondent Miles O'Brien reports on the ways scientists and conservationists are working to survey and protect the island’s rich, and sometimes unique, wildlife… Continue watching
Oct 25 Fact or fiction: Do redheads feel more pain? By Julia Griffin, Nsikan Akpan Redheads are rumored feel more pain and need more painkillers than their blonde and brown-haired cousins, but the science itself is murky. Continue reading
Oct 18 This Japanese 'hidden figure' enlightened the world with her sunspot sketches By Rashmi Shivni Hisako Koyama's lifelong passion for the glimmering sky and her meticulous sunspot drawings shaped the modern field of space weather. Continue reading
Oct 16 Neutron star collision offers new source of gravitational waves By Rashmi Shivni Astronomers have discovered a collision of neutron stars that released both a stream of gravitational waves and a flash of light, backing one of Einstein's theories. Continue reading
Oct 09 How a brain gets hooked on opioids By Nsikan Akpan, Julia Griffin Here is the neuroscience behind how opioids overtake the human brain. Continue reading
Oct 04 2017 Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to 'cool' 3D pictures of bioarchitecture By Nsikan Akpan Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson have won the 2017 Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing a way to image biomolecules at cold temperatures. Continue reading
Oct 03 LIGO gravitational wave discoverers win 2017 Nobel Prize in physics By Nsikan Akpan Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne have won the 2017 Nobel Prize for physics for leading the projects that discovered gravitational waves and proved an century-old Einstein theory. Continue reading
Oct 02 Three Americans win 2017 Nobel Prize in medicine for research on circadian clocks By Nsikan Akpan Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young won the 2017 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine on Monday for their research into what controls circadian rhythms. Continue reading