Science

"For some of us it was just, 'ugh, those dung whales are in my data," said Dr. Caplan-Auerbach. Humpback whales have historically paused their research on Lo'ihi Seamount, an underwater Hawaiian volcano. "We had Tons and tons of whale…

Her research brought hope to develop treatments to reduce T cell immunosuppression, especially in the elderly."Millie loved the science," said Dr. Carl Grunfeld, deputy chief of staff for research and development at the San Francisco VA…

In recent years, scientists have figured out how to grow blobs of hundreds of thousands of living human neurons that look and act like something like a brain.These so-called brain organoids have been used to study how brains develop into…

They used the model to test how habitat, fishing pressures and socio-economics affect the population and ranked countries according to the risk of sawfish becoming extinct. The study found that the availability of mangrove habitats coupled…

Founded in 1891, Merck has been in the vaccines business for more than 100 years and has developed some of the world's most famous vaccines, including mumps, hepatitis A and chickenpox. In 2019, it became the first company to receive…

In 1931, researchers working in the south of France discovered a large mussel at the entrance to a cave. Inconspicuous at first glance, it languished in the collections of a nearby natural history museum for decades.Now a team has…

The invention of the Covid-19 vaccine will be remembered as a milestone in the history of medicine, creating in a few months what had previously taken up to a decade. Dr. However, Kayvon Modjarrad, director of the Emerging Infectious…

China's space agency has a penchant for secrecy in its missions. It has shown more openness over the past year, delivering a live video on state media of the launch of its Chang'e-4 mission to the moon. If there is a more precise arrival…

In 1956, the Rosenbluths moved to San Diego, where Marshall Rosenbluth took up a position at General Atomics, a division of General Dynamics established to study the peaceful uses of atomic energy. Their marriage ended in divorce in…

From about $ 500 an ounce five years ago, the price of palladium quintupled to a record $ 2,875 an ounce last year and is now between $ 2,000 and $ 2,500 an ounce above gold. Rhodium prices are up more than 3,000 percent from about $ 640…