Google has spent the past decade-and-a-half perfecting the science of recognizing patterns in the chaos of information on the web. Now it's applying that expertise to searching for clues to the genetic causes of autism in the vast sea of data conta
Police had a suspect, but they couldn't pin the crime on him due to a twist of genetic fate: He had an identical twin brother, and DNA from the condom matched both siblings.
Police had a suspect, but they couldn't pin the crime on him due to a twist of genetic fate: He had an identical twin brother, and DNA from the condom matched both siblings.
You've never seen data presented like this. With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, statistics guru Hans Rosling debunks myths about the so-called "developing world."
Now this is a study that any parent, particularly mothers, can verify with field research. A group of neuroscientists from the Universities of Pittsburgh, California-Berkeley and Harvard, and led by Kyung Hwa Lee have found that pre-teenage and teena
"The greatest and most endangered species in the Amazon rainforest is not the jaguar or the harpy eagle," says Mark Plotkin, "It's the isolated and uncontacted tribes."
When a medication enters the bloodstream, it ends up being concentrated in the liver – after all, one of the organ's main functions is to cleanse the blood.
Guided missiles as offensive weapons made their debut during the Second World War. Most famous was the German V-2 missile, a liquid-fueled rocket that could deliver its one-ton payload to a target 200 miles away.
Researchers in Canada sought to raise three breeds of broiler chickens common in 1957, 1978, and 2005 without the influence of disparate feeds or hormones to see how they'd changed genetically.
Since bovine growth hormone received FDA approval in 1993, three disturbing health trends have emerged. Cancer cases continue to increase, obesity has become an epidemic and early onset puberty has become the norm.
"It's not often you see a wall full of glowing predators." That's what Aaron Pomerantz, an entomologist at the Tambopata Research Center, said about a new mystery insect discovered in the Amazonian forests of Peru.
Scientists are investigating the remains of an almost-perfectly preserved steppe bison that was discovered by members of the Yukagir tribe in northern Siberia.
Mars is a long way off. About 34 million miles away, depending on planetary orbits. Space agencies planning a mission there have estimated that sending six crew members to the Red Planet would take about 916 days — 210 days for travel there and bac
Researchers at North Carolina State University have figured out how to make cyborg cockroaches -- or biobots, as they call them -- pick up sound and seek out its source. So one day, the first responders to a rubble-filled disaster scene might be resc
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