Science Focus
Ideal way to administer drugs, take diagnostics, and more? The untapped medical potential of the vagina
The vagina has huge untapped medical potential. Scientists are only just beginning to investigate the organ's many healthcare applications ...
Confidence heuristic: Why humans are biologically programmed to follow self-assured, poised people
Human evolution has led to us naturally believe statements delivered in a more assured manner ...
Here’s how CRISPR gene editing is already revolutionizing medicine
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
‘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
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
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 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
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?
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?
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
[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
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
[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
[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
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
By the time you read this, a group of friends at a restaurant in Singapore will have shared a three-course ...
How would a coronavirus antibody test work?
The hunt is on for a coronavirus antibody test that tells people whether they have had COVID-19 and are immune ...