Category: 7. Science

University of Cambridge scientists have used human stem cells to create three-dimensional embryo-like structures that replicate certain aspects of very early human development – including the production of blood stem cells.

Human…

It has long been understood that tiny Antarctic krill play a vital role in the food chain, providing essential nourishment for everything from fish and sea birds to seals and whales. However, recent research has highlighted another increasingly…

SpaceX launched another of its mammoth Starship rockets on a test flight Monday, striving to make it halfway around the world while releasing mock satellites like last time.

Starship — the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built —…

University of Manchester paleontologist Dean Lomax and his colleagues have identified a new genus and species of leptonectid ichthyosaur from a fossilized specimen found in Dorset, England.

The evolution of the modern mammal jaw is more complex than previously thought, according to a new analysis of fossils belonging to two mammaliamorph species: (i) Polistodon chuannanensis, a Middle Jurassic herbivorous tritylodontid with a…

We tend to think of memory as exclusively the brain’s domain, but new research suggests that this view may be far too narrow. A study from New York University shows that some ordinary human cells…

Dark energy is one of the most mysterious concepts in all of the cosmos. We know very little about what it is but it just might play an overwhelming role in the death of the universe. Often referred to as a cosmological constant, dark energy is…