It’s aged — 3,600 years. Scientists have successfully pulled a DNA strand from what they believe to be the world’s oldest cheese, yanking it from Bronze...
Madeleine Finlay speaks to Dr Saul Newman, an interdisciplinary researcher at University College London and the University of Oxford, who has just won an Ig Nobel...
Heart tissues within one of the launch-ready chambers. Credit: Jonathan Tsui Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists who arranged for 48 human bioengineered heart tissue samples to spend...
Acidic waters damage corals, shellfish and the phytoplankton that feeds numerous marine species. The world’s oceans are close to becoming too acidic to properly sustain marine...
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new study finds “litigant shopping,” or choosing plaintiffs with specific demographic attributes, can be used to shape public opinion about the...
Small sastrugi on Thwaites Glacier. Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Tidal action on the underside of the Thwaites Glacier in the Antarctic will “inexorably” accelerate melting this...
President Biden disembarks at Delaware Air National Guard base President Joe Biden is hosting world leaders at his home in Greenville and at Archmere Academy in...
by John D. Van Dyke I recently wrote a piece for Skeptic titled “Ranking Presidents: Does It Make Any Sense?”, in which I outlined three reasons...
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Having a robust emergency savings fund could help people weather financial shocks, such as job loss during the COVID-19 pandemic, finds a...
The world might be witnessing the bending of a key climate curve. Various projections have suggested that carbon emissions from China, the world’s largest emitter, will...
Javier Garcia-Martinez, who advises global leaders on public policies backed by scientific evidence, says more scientists should work to build trust with policymakers. Many researchers think...
After a decade building quantum-computing hardware, Jacques Carolan decided he needed a change. “I wanted to work on technologies that were more directly related to human...