A Quirk of Physics Could Give Us a Fast, Cheap Way To Diagnose Diseases
And the blood tests can easily be performed in virtually any setting.
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And the blood tests can easily be performed in virtually any setting.
You know, the exact technologies that could lead to the robopocalypse.
If you’ve had your fill of depressing predictions for the future, here’s one that is both fascinating and as innocuous as they come
Tens of thousands of wildfires ravaged Indonesia in September and October. A sizeable portion of these blazes was smouldering subterranean peat fires, which sent toxic gas and particulate matter into the atmosphere.
It looks like an alien parasite come to invade our brains, but the truly bizarre creature pictured above is one of the first fossils of a mud dragon ever discovered, and it could help scientists answer some big evolutionary questions.
This machine that shoots a blast of beads at a metal target is actually an analogue for the early universe. Read More >>
Our world is steadily transitioning to a low-carbon economy – let's fast-forward and see what can really be done.
Researchers with telescopes were looking for stars outside our Solar System but may have found strange objects much closer to home?
You’re looking at the tattered fragments of the structures that channelled blood through the legs of Brachylophosaurus canadensis, a 30-foot-long hadrosaur that roamed Montana 80 million years ago. Read More >>
It’s the latest addition to a growing area in medicine known as “farmaceuticals.”
A new excavation on an iconic Cambodian temple reveals who worked there, how they lived, and how they may have been conquered.
Make no mistake: in one form or another, human trait selection is coming. Here are the arguments for and against the potentially highly controversial practice of baby-crafting.
Termite guts, cannibalistic critters and larva going all Alien-chestburster-scene. Put down that sandwich and watch now.
This is what happens when two senses are pitted against each other, to see which one we trust the most.
Seven healthy canine babies have been brought to life, ultimately giving hope to conservation of rare species.
The ocean, like the rest of Earth’s climate system, is changing — and not for the better.
