Ideal way to administer drugs, take diagnostics, and more? The untapped medical potential of the vagina

Ideal way to administer drugs, take diagnostics, and more? The untapped medical potential of the vagina

Michelle Griffin | Science Focus | 
The vagina has huge untapped medical potential. Scientists are only just beginning to investigate the organ's many healthcare applications ...
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Confidence heuristic: Why humans are biologically programmed to follow self-assured, poised people

Dean Burnett | Science Focus | 
Human evolution has led to us naturally believe statements delivered in a more assured manner ...
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Here’s how CRISPR gene editing is already revolutionizing medicine

Ian Taylor | Science Focus | 
A number of genetic disorders are caused by a mutation in a single gene. The power (and precision) of CRISPR ...
‘Super foods’ are more hype than science. Gene editing technology could make them reality

‘Super foods’ are more hype than science. Gene editing technology could make them reality

Emma Beckett | Science Focus | 
‘Superfoods’ are often touted as being exceptionally beneficial for our health. But currently, the concept is mostly just marketing hype ...
Could alien life survive harsh environments? Green slime dug up in lava caves offers an intriguing theory

Could alien life survive harsh environments? Green slime dug up in lava caves offers an intriguing theory

Sara Rigby | Science Focus | 
Deep within the lava caves of Hawaii, microbial life thrives. In fact, a recent study has found that the life ...
Appetite reducing pill? It's being researched — but it won’t replace the mental health benefits of exercise

Appetite reducing pill? It’s being researched — but it won’t replace the mental health benefits of exercise

Radha Modgil | Science Focus | 
Researchers from the Baylor College of Medicine, publishing their findings in the journal Nature, have found a molecule produced by ...
Could humans have evolved on other planets, too?

Could humans have evolved on other planets, too?

Paul Parsons | Science Focus | 
Could it be that our species is the principal indigenous race in the Universe – that Homo sapiens, or something ...
99% of all animals that have ever lived on Earth started their development in eggs. Here is how evolution has worked its magic

99% of all animals that have ever lived on Earth started their development in eggs. Here is how evolution has worked its magic

Jules Howard | Science Focus | 
More than 99 per cent of all animals that have ever lived on planet Earth have, in the first moments ...
Is love nothing more than brain chemicals?

Is love nothing more than brain chemicals?

Anna Machin | Science Focus | 
Love evolved to bribe us to commence and maintain... relationships – with lovers, children, family and friends – which we ...
CRISPR opens the door to altering nature. What could go right — and wrong?

CRISPR opens the door to altering nature. What could go right — and wrong?

Hayley Bennett | Science Focus | 
Gene editing today usually means making precise changes using CRISPR, a bacterial DNA-cutting system adopted by scientists. It works within ...
How genes from other species can open the door to human colonization of the far reaches of the universe

How genes from other species can open the door to human colonization of the far reaches of the universe

Ian Taylor | Science Focus | 
[Geneticist Christopher Mason has developed] a “500-year plan for the survival of the human species on Earth, in space, and ...
Not only did humans exchange DNA with Neanderthals — we shared culture as well

Not only did humans exchange DNA with Neanderthals — we shared culture as well

Tom Higham | Science Focus | 
Between ~45,000 to 40,000 years ago [humans and Neanderthals were] contemporaries and had ample time to meet and interact. New ...
How the evolution of an ancient fish gave humans the ability to speak

How the evolution of an ancient fish gave humans the ability to speak

John Colapinto | Science Focus | 
[E]very voice (barks, whinnies, whines, chirps, squeals, meows, ribbits, roars, the State of the Union address) derives from a common ...
Why do we find puppies more adorable than babies? The neuroscience of cuteness

Why do we find puppies more adorable than babies? The neuroscience of cuteness

Thomas Ling | Science Focus | 
[W]hat exactly happens in the brain when we gaze at a baby? And why do we respond the same way ...
How the fossils ‘Lucy’ and “Ardi’ changed our understanding of human history

How the fossils ‘Lucy’ and “Ardi’ changed our understanding of human history

Kermit Pattison | Science Focus | 
The discovery of [Lucy,] Australopithecus afarensis, advanced science in numerous ways. First, it illuminated one of the greatest mysteries of ...
Lab-grown meat is here: Restaurant in Singapore begins serving chicken made in a bioreactor

Lab-grown meat is here: Restaurant in Singapore begins serving chicken made in a bioreactor

Daniel Bennett | Science Focus | 
By the time you read this, a group of friends at a restaurant in Singapore will have shared a three-course ...
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How would a coronavirus antibody test work?

Alexander McNamara | Science Focus | 
The hunt is on for a coronavirus antibody test that tells people whether they have had COVID-19 and are immune ...
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