Why did polio become lethal since the 1880s? – Part 3

DDT Pesticides Similarly to arsenic, the DDT theory has two variants: direct and indirect. The DDT theory traces back to a ...

Manager quality can match entire team's output, controlled experiments reveal

A good manager can be just as important to a company's performance as the combined productive capacity of its employees. This ...

Imaginary-time technique speeds X-ray scattering simulations by 50-fold for extreme matter

Researchers at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) have developed a new procedure, enabling them to speed up ...

China launches human embryo experiment in space

The embryos cannot develop into humans, and are being used to study development in outer space.

Scientists have proven the benefit of live concerts for brain engagement

Researchers from Northeastern University in the United States have found that the human brain synchronizes more effectively ...

Experiments in hope: What can the Christian church offer in these polarised times?

Politics is not enough to unite people with no shared moral horizons. The project of Babel — attempting unity without God — ...

Prolific East Bay innovator of common medical devices dies at age 90

One of Jack Lloyd’s innovations, the pulse oximeter, is credited with improving operating room and critical care safety and ...
Las Vegas Sun

Argonne Launches First Large-Scale AI Inference Service for Open Science

Argonne National Laboratory has launched a first-of-its-kind AI inference service to help researchers across the nation accelerate discovery and innovation. The service offers cloud-like access to a ...
Undark Magazine

A Peptide, a Secretive Scientist, and a Debate Over Evidence

Today, Sikiric and his team describe BPC-157 as an all-purpose healing compound. Laboratory experiments with animals and cell cultures, they write, suggest the peptide may treat everything from muscle ...

California fires the world’s largest energy laser at a target smaller than an eraser, and the fusion race suddenly feels closer

NIF's massive laser system is unlocking fusion energy. See how this breakthrough is bringing us closer to a clean energy ...

Vaping is often touted as less toxic than smoking. But new research raises concerns about cancer risk

E-cigarettes may carry cancer risks of their own, researchers warn. A doctor explains what people who vape and parents should ...

A tiny mistake in a laboratory in 1957 created the world’s most feared honey bees and changed the fate of two continents forever

It started with a genuine problem and a genuinely good intentionAnd then, on one unremarkable afternoon in 1957, somebody removed a screen from a beehive — and accidentally changed the ecology of two ...