Cancer Cure Promised to Become Available In a Year Is Impossible, Experts Say
Jan 31, 2019 09:19 am UTC| Science
The search for the cure for cancer continues in different parts of the world. Recently, a group of scientists from Israel announced they could come up with a fully-tested remedy within a year. However, other experts are...
Why we're looking for chemicals in the seabed to help predict climate change
Jan 29, 2019 12:47 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science
Hidden in even the clearest waters of the ocean are clues to whats happening to the seas and the climate on a global scale. Trace amounts of various chemical elements are found throughout the seas and can reveal whats...
How a partnership is closing the door on "parachute" research in Africa
Jan 29, 2019 12:46 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science
Theres growing condemnation of parachute research among the global scientific community. This refers to the practice of scientists and research groups from the global north conducting research and collecting data in poorer...
150 years later, 2019 is the International Year of the Periodic Table
Jan 29, 2019 12:24 pm UTC| Science
The United Nations announced 2019 as the International Year of the Periodic Table of the Chemical Elements to highlight its first publication in 1859. The periodic table as we know it today was first designed by the...
Gene drive technology makes mouse offspring inherit specific traits from parents
Jan 27, 2019 14:42 pm UTC| Nature Science
As mouse geneticists, we spend a lot of time waiting for mice to make more mice. Their small size, ease of care and willingness to mate have made mice the mammal of choice for scientists for more than a century. Indeed,...
Periodic table: new version warns of elements that are endangered
Jan 27, 2019 14:41 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science
It is amazing to think that everything around us is made up from just 90 building blocks the naturally occurring chemical elements. Dmitri Mendeleev put the 63 of these known at the time into order and published his first...
Why Chinese science seems so secretive – and how it may be about to change
Jan 27, 2019 14:41 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science
Chinas recent scientific achievements including its embryo gene-editing research and historic moon landing appear to be surrounded by secrecy. The global scientific community first learned about its experiments modifying...
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects