Poo May Be the Key to Studying the Most Elusive Animals on Earth
The secrets of the animal kingdom just might be hidden within piles of animal crap.
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The secrets of the animal kingdom just might be hidden within piles of animal crap.
Just to be clear, this does NOT mean that aliens influenced the 2016 US election.
It’s on behalf of a study conducted by NASA and biomedicine company Nanobiosym, but I can’t help but feel like this was Elon Musk’s idea for a science fiction spec he’s working on.
A group of experts came up with them in order to steer the development of AI in a positive direction—and to ensure it doesn’t destroy us.
Here are some of the more noteworthy past (and present) plans to send humans to Mars, ranked by descending levels of absurdity.
The addition of Virgo will give scientists the ability to pinpoint where in the sky the gravitational waves are located.
Queensland University researchers have found that eating carbohydrates during intense exercise can help your body recover, and keeps your immune system in peak condition.
Hidden Figures is a great example of how all of the technology progress we enjoy is predicated as much on politics as microchips and electrons.
It's to get a handle on these uncanny orientation skills so that we can one day exploit them to build better robots.
In what archaeologists are calling the “find of a lifetime,” a horde of Late Bronze Age weapons has been discovered at a Scottish construction site.
MIT scientists just created an early version of this technology, and it looks super cool.
Opinions differ on just how close our two species can get, and what “closeness” can really mean, when you’re dealing with a 500-plus-kilo forest creature.
A new project called Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 could be a game changer in this most epic hunt.
We know very little about our planet’s seafloor, but that’s poised to change as autonomous underwater scouting technology gets better and better.
In a brief, one-sentence decision on Wednesday, the US patent office handed the patent for the gene editing technology CRISPR-Cas9 to the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT.
How do you deal with poo if you're in a spacesuit for days at a time? NASA wanted some ideas, and the chosen few have just been announced.
