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Promising assisted reproductive technologies come with ethical, legal and social challenges
A developmental biologist and a bioethicist discuss IVF, abortion and the mice with...
The bacteria and microbes in your gut can affect your body and mental health
– engineering them promises new forms of treatment. Podcast
A new, thin-lensed telescope design could far surpass James Webb – goodbye mirrors, hello diffractive lenses
Astronomers have discovered more than 5,000 planets outside of the solar system...
Classic literature still offers rich lessons about life in the deep blue sea
When OceanGate, the deep-sea exploration enterprise, created a promotional video...
Does the direction water rotates down the drain depend on which hemisphere you’re in? Debunking the Coriolis effect in your sink
In countries near the Earth’s equator, tourists are often dazzled by a demonstration...
Immune cells in the brain may reduce damage during seizures and promote recovery, according to study in mice
Immune cells in the brain may reduce damage during seizures and promote recovery,...
Zebrafish share skin-deep similarities with people, making them helpful models to study skin conditions like vitiligo and melanoma
Melanocytes are a small subset of epidermal cells that play an outsize role in protecting...
Why are so many climate records breaking all at once?
In the past few weeks, climate records have shattered across the globe. July 4 was...
Physicist who found spherical meteor fragments claims they may come from an alien spaceship – here’s what to make of it
Avi Loeb, a physicist from Harvard University in the US, has recovered 50 tiny spherical...
Aging is complicated – a biologist explains why no two people or cells age the same way, and what this means for anti-aging interventions
You likely know someone who seems to age slowly, appearing years younger than their...
Plastic pollution threatens birds far out at sea – new research
Seabirds are one of the world’s most threatened animal groups. They already contend...
Seabed trawling’s impact on the climate may be wildly overestimated – new study
You might remember newspaper articles in 2021 claiming that towing nets over the...
Astronomers see ancient galaxies flickering in slow motion due to expanding space
According to our best understanding of physics, the fact space is expanding should...
Meltwater is hydro-fracking Greenland’s ice sheet through millions of hairline cracks – destabilizing its internal structure
I’m striding along the steep bank of a raging white-water torrent, and even though...
A subtle symphony of ripples in spacetime – astronomers use dead stars to measure gravitational waves produced by ancient black holes
An international team of astronomers has detected a faint signal of gravitational...
Astronomers puzzled by ‘planet that shouldn’t exist’
The search for planets outside our Solar System – exoplanets – is one of the most...