Comets or volcanoes? Scientists are changing their mind about how the Earth's water got here
Mar 06, 2017 13:46 pm UTC| Science
The Earth has been the blue planet for as many as 3.8 billion years. Ancient sedimentary rock deposits and lava that cooled into characteristic pillow shapes provide irrefutable evidence that liquid water has existed at...
Scientists Green Lit To Create Super Humans, Playing With Gene-Editing Toys
Mar 06, 2017 12:50 pm UTC| Science
The Francis Crick Institute at the UK was given the green light to start messing around with the genes of embryos, which is basically allowing its researchers to start messing around with the first stages of human...
Scientists Overcome Huge Cryogenics Obstacle, Freezing And Reviving Humans Closer To Reality
Mar 03, 2017 07:44 am UTC| Science
Cryogenics, cryonics, cryopreservation, what have you, the idea is the same; freeze a living human being and then revive them later on. For now, this kind of science is still on the fringes of accepted theories, but its...
DNA Can Now Be Used For Storing Files And Movies
Mar 03, 2017 07:30 am UTC| Science
One of the biggest problems that the engineers and programmers are facing right now is the prospect of having way too much information and not enough space to store it. Even with tech companies coming up with ways to make...
Scientists Are Close To Curing Cancer, Terminal Patients In Remission
Mar 02, 2017 08:56 am UTC| Science Health
The cure for cancer has been one of the highest priorities of the medical world for decades, with scientists in both private and public fields trying their best to finally rid the world of the deadly disease. One group is...
How genetics can uncover links in chronic pain and other conditions
Mar 02, 2017 02:34 am UTC| Health Science
In the recent Global Burden of Disease study, four of the top ten causes of disability worldwide were chronic pain conditions. Chronic pain is defined as pain that lasts beyond normal healing time usually three months ...
Here's the best way to shuffle a pack of cards – with a little help from some maths
Feb 28, 2017 14:54 pm UTC| Science
Shuffling a pack of cards isnt as easy as you think, not if you want to truly randomise the cards. Most people will give a pack a few shuffles with the overhand or riffle methods (where the pack is split and the two halves...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal – and why it won’t go back
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight