We Were Wrong About HIV’s ‘Patient Zero’
The origin of the pandemic has been reconstructed in unprecedented detail, showing the disease jumped from the Caribbean to New York City around 1970.
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The origin of the pandemic has been reconstructed in unprecedented detail, showing the disease jumped from the Caribbean to New York City around 1970.
The Viaskin Peanut Patch hopes to stave off most peanut allergies.
Watching robots make tiny springs is wonderfully hypnotic. Read more >>
Disturbingly, back muscles don't return to normal even after several weeks back on Earth.
Sprouting blue leaves do a remarkably good job of capturing sunlight when there’s very little to go around.
It was blue when the Cassini spacecraft imaged it in 2012, and now, it’s bright gold.
Incredibly, about half a million solar panels were installed each day around the world last year.
The ill-fated Schiaparelli fell over a mile at a rate of 185 mph into Mars' surface.
The new weapon can deploy warheads of 40 megatons, or about 2,000 times as powerful as the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagaski in 1945.
Just in time for Halloween, researchers have uncovered a new species of millipede that boasts an impressive array of features.
The decision reinstates the US's Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections for the bearded seals, but it also sets an important precedent moving forward.
The printed organ is made of synthetic material designed to mimic the structure and function of native tissue.
Should one slip, it could trigger the other fault to collapse as well, causing an earthquake even larger than the one that struck back in 1989.
Time now for a very cute video about a rather terrible prospect.
Over 100 million years ago snakes did have four appendages, and then evolution stepped in.Now, researchers believe they’ve isolated what caused this change.
Helped by a man who knew nothing about the subject.
