Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), chairman of the Joint Economic Committee (JEC) released a report May 18 on federal tax deductions, spotlighting how they “miss the mark” when it comes to affordability for taxpayers.
Conspiracy theories are nothing new and it’s not unusual for people to jump and embrace them during stressful times, like the current realities of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Love penguins and science? Cooped up at home and looking for something to do?
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., have turned Escherichia coli (E. coli) into a digital display, by encoding a synthetic genetic circuit in its DNA.
Researchers at Texas A&M University have developed a minimally-invasive biosensor system that they say could help gout sufferers to monitor their symptoms. In the February issue of “Sensors,” they say the technology could help create point-of-care therapies for personal management of gout and other conditions.
Subrena Smith had no idea she would spark a scientific discussion with the publication of an article. But that’s how things have evolved.
There’s a gene variant that can protect individuals who are genetically at higher risk for Alzheimer’s disease, according to a new study published on April 13th in JAMA Neurology.
Lucy is widely accepted as the predecessor of modern humans, but scientists have been trying to determine if key differences in the human brain occurred after divergence of Homo from Lucy’s species Australopithecus afrensis or if the differences evolved within her genus.
Researchers at UCLA have discovered a nanomachine that could work like an antibiotic, recognizing and killing bacteria.
Antibody testing in Santa Clara County, Calif. has raised questions about the official figures related to COVID-19 infections, according to a report published in the journal Nature on April 17.
The COVID-19 pandemic has hurled quite the challenge at parents of young children and women in particular, says Alessandra Minnello, a social demographer who studies how families manage household and paid work.
Dental issues are distinctly a human issue, and according to dental anthropologist Peter S Ungar, most vertebrate creatures do not have crooked teeth, cavities or gum disease.
Researchers from the Molecular Cryo-Electron Microscopy Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) have discovered the structure of adhesive pili which attaches bacterial cells to the host, and the role they play in gum disease. In Japan, more than 75 percent of adults over the age of 35 have gum disease, which is caused primarily by the bacterial pathogen Porphyromonas gingivalis.
There’s some cool stuff happening in the skies tonight, and throughout the week, for those who look up.
Orphan genes, or taxonomically restricted genes have been a curious thing for researchers. They’ve been the topic of a study published in eLife on Feb. 18, 2020.
A paper published in Genome Biology and Evolution explored the 2013 ENCODE Project’s assertion that 80 percent of the Human genome is functional.
To increase testing for COVID-19, researchers are coming together.
Scientists were hopeful that “Comet Atlas” would become visible to the naked eye in the northern hemisphere towards the end of April.
According to a March 30 report in the journal Nature, 60 days after Hubei province went into lockdown, authorities are lifting travel restrictions.
In March weather balloons over the arctic reported a 90 percent drop in ozone near the center of the ozone layer.