Spanish researchers may have found the means for combatting a “brain-eating” amoeba that led to increased deaths in the U.S. and around the world in recent years.
A recent discovery by University of Texas (UT) researchers promises to help create more effective cancer treatment by adding to the understanding of how cancer-fighting T cells work.
The White House Office of Science and Technology recently released a report on the science and technology achievements overseen by the administration of President Donald Trump.
Women may have played a bigger role than previously thought in the hunting side of early societies on the American continents, based on findings from an archeological site in Peru.
The chemicals being released into the oceans by microplastics – the incredibly small particles left behind as plastics break down – could be causing major changes in how mussels behave.
The United States could be in serious danger of losing its role as a world leader in technological innovation unless there is a significant reversal in current trends.
Alleging a secretive, clandestine cabal has been conspiring to prevent politicians from taking decisive action to save the planet from impending doom, Brown University recently launched the Climate Social Science Network to track down and expose the conspiracy their scholars have theorized exists.
The staff and administration at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) recently honored the scientific contributions of Angelika Amon, an MIT cell biologist who pioneered research on chromosome imbalance, after her passing at the age of 53.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences gravitated to black holes this year in their awarding of the Nobel Prize in Physics.
The U.S. is facing shortages of several crucial COVID-19 supplies, including commercial testing kits and supplies needed for routine laboratory diagnostics, which could have ongoing implications not just for COVID-19 but for other tests as well.
Putting ideas out there so everyone knows them is very different, in practice, from actually getting people to do what you want, and The National Academies recently looked at some of the ways social science can get people to follow the recommendations of the rest of the sciences.
James “Doc” McFadden, who passed away on Sept. 28, spent most of his life with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and holds the Guinness Book of World Records title for longest career as a hurricane hunter, flying his first mission to Hurricane Inez in 1966, and his final flight to Hurricane Jerry in 2019 when he was 85 years old.
The National Academy of Medicine and American Public Health Association recently hosted a Covid-19 Conversation webinar in which panelists put forward the opinion that disease surveillance, testing, and contact tracing are some of the best public health tools available for managing the pandemic.
The discovery of stone tools in a cave near the Altlantic coast of Portugal may indicate humans reached westernmost Europe between 38,000 and 41,000 years ago, approximately 5,000 years sooner than previously thought and in a time when Neanderthals still lived there.
A University of California, Las Angeles (UCLA)-led team of scientists has been able to show that sleep takes on a significantly different function in the human brain around the age of 2.5 years, and Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep in that first stage is essential to brain development.
A new report from an international commission of the U.S. National Academy of Medicine, U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and the U.K.’s Royal Society, cautions against permitting editing of the genome of embryos that will be used to produce a pregnancy.
New evidence uncovered in Laos may lend understanding to a possible connection between the end of the Green Sahara and a crippling megadrought that struck Southeast Asia between 4,000 and 5,000 years ago.
NASA’s Search and Rescue office is collaborating with a consortium of universities and other research organizations organized as SmartSat Cooperative Research Center (CRC) in order to improve on existing satellite-related technology that aids in search and rescue efforts around the world.