Nobel Prize in Medicine Awarded to Scholars for Parasite-Fighting Therapies
By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN William C. Campbell, Satoshi Omura and Youyou Tu were awarded the Nobel Prize in […]
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Eye Treatment Closes In on Being First Gene Therapy Approved ...
By ANDREW POLLACK Spark Therapeutics said the treatment had allowed people with certain so-called inherited retinal dystrophies to […]
Nobel Prize Winning Scientists Reflect on Nearly Sleeping Through the ...
By As told to CLAUDIA DREIFUS With announcements of this year’s Nobel Prizes set to kick off on […]
Under a Farmer’s Field: A Woolly Mammoth in Michigan
By NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR A farmer discovered the butchered remains of a woolly mammoth that lived up to […]
Hurricane and Rainstorm Are Locked in a Dangerous Dance
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Hurricane Joaquin is locked in a dance with an extraordinarily heavy rainstorm that is […]
NASA Releases Best Photos Yet of Pluto’s Jumbo Moon, Charon
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Pluto’s big moon, Charon, is being revealed in all its rugged glory. Published: October […]
Study Finds Asteroid Ahead of Dinosaur Extinction Accelerated Volcanoes
By SINDYA N. BHANOO A new study suggests that volcanic eruptions started doubling in output within 50,000 years […]
IBM Scientists Find New Way to Shrink Transistors
By JOHN MARKOFF The finding may be the key to once again increasing the speed of computer processors, […]
Crows May Learn Lessons From Death
By CARL ZIMMER A new study suggests the birds pay careful attention to their dead as a way […]
A New View of a Nebula Full of Newborn Stars
By SINDYA N. BHANOO A dazzling image of Messier 17, a reddish nebula 5,500 light-years from Earth, provides […]