Scientists Have Created Monkeys With Parkinson’s Disease
It’s a scientific first, and it could lead to effective treatments — but do the ends justify the means?
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It’s a scientific first, and it could lead to effective treatments — but do the ends justify the means?
On the list of things you’re not advised to do in closed quarters with a limited oxygen supply, lighting a fire definitely ranks high. But this week, NASA did exactly that.
For the second time this year, physicists at the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational Waves Observatory (LIGO) are giddy with excitement.
By applying a 500-year-old philosophical principle, a Cornell University researcher has shown that the Fermi Paradox's Great Silence is not unexpected.
University of Bath study suggests colder beans mean a better-tasting brew.
Elon Musk described the problem as an “RUD=Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly :)” – that's a cock-up to us laymen.
London's popular Science Museum has an entire new fun wing under development, with the £6m Wonderlab set to open for business this October. Read more >>
Did you really consider that when you slap a nappy onto your child?
NASA's Mars recruiting posters make some compelling reasons for you to go off and die in space. Read More >>
And it points to a new method for predicting powerful eruptions.
A pair of astronomers has discovered a first-of-its-kind organic molecule in an enormous star-forming cloud thousands of light years away.
Winemaking is always an exercise in uncertainty. A new technique, however, could help predict what wine will taste like before it’s even made.
See that tiny speck just to left of the bluish orb? That’s a planet. It’s one of the best direct images of an exoplanet we’ve ever seen. Read More >>
Quasicrystals are weird, perfect lattices of hard material. Most of them are born in labs – but these particular ones have a far more alien origin.
Say goodbye to the Bramble Cay melomys, a small rat-like creature that lived on a tiny island near the north coast of Australia.
A single atom created out of place when making crucial carbon tubes could bring a space-lift crashing to Earth.
