In what may be a memorably controversial and groundbreaking new research paper, scientists from China describe in detail the way in which they were successful at manipulating the genomes, or genetic blueprints of human embryos for what is the first time in human history, reintroducing all new ethical concerns about what just may be the […]

After a formal request made by three Congresswomen, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has officially launched an investigation over whether there really is a gender bias wielding influence over who is awarded research grants, something that would be a violation of the law. Already, it’s pretty clear that there exists a sizable gender disparity […]

The entire early history of the Earth itself is one of extreme violence – a series of extreme catastrophic accidents that ultimately shaped it into the habitable form it is today – collisions, volcanoes, earthquakes. Even when the Earth was a habitable place, thriving with life, it was unsafe from mass extinction events, which took […]

Bronze artifacts discovered in a 1,000-year-old house in Alaska suggest trade was occurring between East Asia and the New World centuries before the voyages of Columbus. Trade between East Asia and the New World may have occurred centuries before Columbus ever, according to a rash of new discoveries. While many have credited Leif Erikson with […]

While the movement of octopuses could be described as a simple elegance, it may shock you to learn that in fact, they really have no underlying rhythm, according to the latest research. Each of the octopus’s eight arms is soft, flexible and muscular, almost pure muscle but capable of acting like it contains an infinite […]

Archaeologists surveying the Kenyan Rift Valley area quite accidentally discovered what are perhaps the oldest known stone tools in the world. They date back about 3.3 million years ago, which would make them at least 700,000 years older than what were formerly the oldest stone tools – discovered in the Ethiopian region of Hadar. So […]

You’d think we’d know a bit more about our closest living relatives in the animal kingdom – but we’re still making surprising discoveries about chimpanzees, whose genome is about 96 percent similar to ours. While its been known for over a century that chimps are capable of making tools, it turns out that in the […]

The Cretaceous-Paleogene Extinction Event. Formerly known as the K-T extinction event, it’s probably the most famous one by far, though there were far deadlier ones millions of years before it. It was triggered by a falling asteroid one summer about 65 million years ago in what is the modern day Yucatan Peninsula, with an impact […]

Perhaps one of the latest buzzwords in the news is the strange, potentially deadly material known as dark matter. It is thought to comprise roughly 85 percent of the total matter throughout the cosmos and makes up about 27 percent of the Universe as we know it. Now, for what may be the first time, […]

Despite a partially broken arm and a heavy cover of dust, the Mars Curiosity rover sent by NASA a decade ago, continues to make intriguing discoveries. Just last month when drilling rocks on the red planet’s surface it came across organic compounds, suggesting that at one time in the distant past, Mars was a hospitable […]