Science of the Future

Researchers are exploring the impact of using nanoscale nutrients––including copper––on eggplants and other crops. While early results have shown substantial ...

The battle between sports cheats and testers is poised to enter a whole new arena. The World Anti-Doping Agency has ...

[Editor's note: Joselin Linder is the author of the book "The Family Gene: A Mission to Turn My Deadly Inheritance ...

[Editor's note: Hank Greely is a professor of law and genetics at Stanford University.] Controversy has raged about editing human ...

[Biohacker Josiah Zayner] lives and works in Oakland, California, where he's converted a house into a scientific lab. Here, he ...

People who both travel to and live at high altitudes typically cope with lower oxygen levels by increasing red blood ...

As Digital Journal has recently reported Microsoft has recently launched Healthcare NeXT, which is a cloud-based, artificial intelligence and research project ...

When astronaut Scott Kelly returned to Earth after a year floating about the International Space Station, he was noticeably different from his ...

[A] new video from Kurzgesagt presents several technologies close to completion that could make a big impact on how we ...

I am not a DIY scientist, much less a professional scientist. You won’t find me swabbing my cheek cells for ...

Suppose there was a country ruled by an evil dictator. Further, suppose the entire world was plagued by a terrible ...

We associate Alzheimer’s with physical deterioration in the brain, but new research shows the nerve damage responsible for Alzheimer’s onset ...

[Editor's note: Osagie Obasogie is a professor of bioethics at the University of California-Berkeley.] Set in the not-too-distant future, the ...

In a NASA-funded study published on [November 1], Dr. Donna Roberts of the Medical University of South Carolina and her ...

There are 86 billion neurons in the human brain and no two of them are exactly alike. If doctors and ...

Imagine students in universities becoming the first “sequencing line of defense” by detecting bacteria resistant to antibiotics and educating their ...

[Editor's note: Robert Plomin is deputy director of the MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Center at King’s College London.] ...

In 2016, Microsoft released a “playful” chatbot named Tay onto Twitter designed to show off the tech giant’s burgeoning artificial ...

Designer babies are coming in 20 to 30 years. Your children will be able to select, to some degree, their ...

[Jan] van Deursen and his colleagues at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, [had] an idea: could killing off these 'zombie' ...

After years of sequencing the genomes of female Neandertals, researchers have finally got their first good look at the Y ...

Internal time perception is complex, involving disperse areas of the brain. But a new field of research called neurorelativity, using ...

[Tristan] Roberts is about to inject himself with an experimental gene therapy for HIV, a DIY prototype treatment designed by ...

You’ve probably heard of the molecular scalpel CRISPR-Cas9, which can edit or delete whole genes. Now, scientists have developed a ...

Scientists at Vanderbilt University say they have discovered a nongenetic cause of resistance to cetuximab, a therapeutic that is used ...

There are an increasing number of genetic clues from animals that could provide hints to treating aging and age related ...

Google’s artificial intelligence group, DeepMind, has unveiled the latest incarnation of its Go-playing program, AlphaGo – an AI so powerful that ...