Scientists present plan to cool the world through geoengineering whiter clouds ~enviro climate change Article 378 words 10 votes
Can progressives be convinced that genetics matters? ~science Article 9648 words, published Sep 3 2021 15 votes
Sex can relieve nasal congestion, and other work honored by 2021 Ig Nobels ~science Article 1023 words 17 votes
Why many scientists say it’s unlikely that SARS-CoV-2 originated from a “lab leak” ~health Link 15 votes
Scientists last month set foot on a tiny island off the coast of Greenland which they say is the world's northernmost point of land and was revealed by shifting pack ice ~science Article 476 words 10 votes
Lawrence Livermore claims a milestone in laser fusion, produces three times more energy than was absorbed by the fuel ~science physics Link 16 votes
Scientists grew stem cell 'mini brains'. Then, the brains sort-of developed eyes ~science biology Article 685 words 12 votes
Physicists face stagnation if they continue to treat the philosophy of science as a joke ~humanities philosophy Link 10 votes
Vast sunken continent “Icelandia” may exist under the North Atlantic – if proven it could upend long-standing assumptions about region's geological history ~science Article 797 words 9 votes
Scientist invents toilet that turns human feces into cryptocurrency ~science Article 337 words 6 votes
Third-biggest ice loss for Greenland in a single day since 1950 – rapid melt followed warm air being trapped by a change in atmospheric circulation patterns ~enviro climate change Article 409 words 8 votes
Scientists now think that being overweight can protect your health ~health Article 1528 words, published Nov 17 2015 4 votes
Why some biologists and ecologists think social media is a risk to humanity ~science biology Article 2606 words 15 votes
Large amounts of mercury discovered in Greenland's glaciers – the heavy metal raises concerns for the health of indigenous communities ~enviro pollution.water Article 1018 words 5 votes
Plans to capture and run six-hour-long sound tests on young minke whales are set to go ahead in Norway despite condemnation from more than fifty international scientists ~science biology.marine Article 695 words 5 votes
Scientists grow mouse embryos in a mechanical womb ~science biology medicine Article 1143 words 5 votes
Scientists solve another piece of the puzzling Antikythera mechanism ~space astronomy Article 627 words 20 votes
The little-known Albert Einstein: An ardent defender of black Americans against racism ~humanities.history Article 923 words, published Jun 12 2020 10 votes
Scientists discover massive 'pipeline' in the cosmic web connecting the universe ~space astronomy Article 7 votes
Scientists are concerned by falling sperm counts and declining egg quality. Endocrine-disrupting chemicals may be the problem. ~science biology Article 926 words 12 votes
Illegal CFC emissions have stopped since scientists raised alarm ~enviro pollution.air Article 715 words 17 votes
How our brutal science system almost cost us a pioneer of mRNA vaccines ~science medicine Article 1313 words 8 votes
Pigs can play video games with their snouts, scientists find ~science biology Article 427 words 8 votes
Physicists have observed an entirely new state of matter called 'Liquid Glass' ~science physics Article 499 words 7 votes
Scientists stuck as China keeps foiling World Health Organization investigation on virus origin ~health Article 532 words 16 votes
The lab-leak hypothesis—for decades, scientists have been hot-wiring viruses in hopes of preventing a pandemic, not causing one. But what if …? ~health Article 2597 words, published Jan 4 2021 18 votes
New type of atomic clock keeps time even more precisely: The design, which uses entangled atoms, could help scientists detect dark matter and study gravity's effect on time ~science physics Article 1024 words 13 votes
Scientists identified a green, poisonous gas used by Federal agents on Portland protesters ~news usa.or.portland Article 1996 words 40 votes
Scientists restore age-related vision loss in mice through epigenetic reprogramming ~science biology.cell medicine Article 1642 words 9 votes
Australian telescope maps new atlas of the universe in record speed ~space astronomy Article 421 words 5 votes
Scientists discover the first animal that doesn’t breathe oxygen to live ~science biology Article published Oct 17 2019 23 votes
Scientists grow bigger monkey brains using human genes, replicating evolution ~science biology Article 459 words, published Jun 19 2020 4 votes
Scientists know masks limit the coronavirus’s spread, but it’s impossible for randomized trials to prove that ~health Article 1397 words 5 votes
The remarkable life of Roxie Laybourne, the world’s first forensic ornithologist at the Smithsonian Institution ~science biology Article 4630 words, published Oct 5 2020 6 votes
Real-time tracking of serotonin, dopamine opens new window to the brain ~health.mental Article 669 words 4 votes
The West’s infernos are melting our sense of how fire works ~enviro natural disasters Article 6770 words 9 votes
How Andrea Ghez won the Nobel for an experiment nobody thought would work ~science Article 967 words 6 votes
New evidence for cyclic universe claimed by Roger Penrose and colleagues ~space Article 943 words, published Aug 21 2018 6 votes
Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to discovery of ‘genetic scissors’ called CRISPR/Cas9 by Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna ~science chemistry Article 1049 words 13 votes