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Seafloor Exposed by Massive Antarctic Iceberg Is About to Get First Visitors

The iceberg that broke away from the Larsen C ice shelf last summer opened up access to an ecosystem that hadn’t seen the light of day in up to 120,000 years. There’s a small window of time for scientists to examine that ecosystem before sunlight and new water change it. That’s why British Antarctic Survey…

Earth Science Brian Kahn Feb 12

Portable Atomic Clock Makes First Measurement

With a new, “portable” atomic clock, scientists are measuring not what time it is but changes to time itself. What do I mean? Researchers from a group of European labs have tested a next-generation atomic clock that’s not bound to a laboratory. It’s not something you’ll ever wear on your wrist, but it could one…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum Feb 12

Praying Mantises Have a Completely Different Way of Seeing in 3D

Praying mantises see the world in three dimensions in a way that’s completely different from how vertebrates (including birds, humans, and other mammals) do, according to a new paper in Current Biology. Also, studying this required putting tiny glasses on mantises. Birds and mammals can see in 3D using the differences between the images observed…

Biology Ryan F. Mandelbaum Feb 9

Scientists Are Hunting for the ‘Dark Photon’—a Portal to the Dark Universe

It appears that the Universe is full of dark matter—around six times more of it than there is regular matter. It has obvious visible effects, like the way it bends light from distant galaxies. Despite dedicated searches, no signs of a dark matter particle explaining these effects have turned up. Perhaps instead physicists will be…

Physics & Chemistry Ryan F. Mandelbaum Feb 9

New Drugs Extend Lives of Men With Resistant Form Of Prostate Cancer

As a general rule, cancer patients have to worry about the possibility that their cancer will return with a vengeance, no matter how successful their initial treatment course may have been. But some men with prostate cancer are left in an even more nerve-wracking state of uncertainty. Their cancer appears practically frozen, not spreading elsewhere…

Health Ed Cara Feb 9

Idaho Legislators Don’t Want Science Teachers Teaching Climate Change [Updated]

Shane Matson has been teaching physical science to middle and high schoolers in Leadore, Idaho, for nearly 30 years. Climate change has been a part of his lessons for about the last two decades. And until recently, it’s never really been a big deal. “I started to consider this is a great topic to talk…

Climate Change Yessenia Funes Feb 9

How Much Is Too Much For a Life-Saving Drug?

When it comes to breakthrough therapies, sometimes it seems as though each new potentially life-saving drug comes with a price tag more expensive than the last. Novartis’ Kymriah, which became the first to win FDA approval for a groundbreaking new type of cancer treatment called CAR-T last year, priced its therapy at $475,000. A gene…

Biology Kristen V. Brown Feb 9

Cautious Optimism as Scientists Grow Human Eggs From Immature Cells in the Lab

In a scientific first, researchers from the US and the UK have taken early-stage human egg cells and grown them to full maturity in the lab. It’s an important proof-of-concept that could eventually yield new infertility treatments for women. Growing egg cells to full maturity in the lab isn’t anything new. Scientists have already done…

Health George Dvorsky Feb 9

New Horizons Just Set a Record for Taking the Furthest Photographs Away From Earth

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is now 3.79 billion miles from Earth, or around 41 times the distance between the Earth and the Sun, and far beyond the orbit of Neptune. Using its Long Range Reconnaissance Imager, it snapped these images of Kuiper Belt Objects 2012 HZ84 (left) and 2012 HE85 (right)—and they’re the furthest images…

Space & Spaceflight Ryan F. Mandelbaum Feb 9

Scientists Have Mapped Out How Our Genes Might Lead to Mental Illness

It’s often said mental illness runs in the family. But while that’s true, scientists have had very little luck actually understanding how our genes influence our risk of developing major depression or schizophrenia. New research published Friday in Science seems to provide something big needed for that greater insight: A roadmap of how genes are…

Health Ed Cara Feb 9

This Crayfish Has Mutated Into a Super-Gross Tribble Nightmare

Imagine an animal that can reproduce at a rate not unlike Star Trek’s classic Tribbles—because it’s actually cloning itself. This stranger-than-fiction monstrosity is worse than a scifi horror, because it’s entirely real. Scientists have been studying the colossal rise in population of the six-inch-long marbled crayfish. Believed to have mutated from a single crayfish about…

io9 Beth Elderkin Feb 8

NASA Has Officially Listed Musk’s Tesla Roadster As a Celestial Object

You may remember that, as a publicity stunt, SpaceX propelled a red Tesla, driven by a dummy in a spacesuit named Starman with the words “DON’T PANIC” written on the control panel, into space using its Falcon Heavy rocket. That car is now a permanent advertisement on the NASA HORIZONS directory of solar system bodies.…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum Feb 8

Interstellar Asteroids Like ‘Oumuamua Could Rewrite the Origins of Life on Earth

Late last year, astronomers detected the first known interstellar asteroid, dubbed ‘Oumuamua. New research suggests these exotic objects are more abundant than we thought, an observation that boosts the panspermia hypothesis—the idea that asteroids seeded life on Earth. At the same time, the presence of so many foreign objects in our Solar System could also…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky Feb 8

Scientists React to New Ruling Requiring NSF-Funded Institutions to Report Sexual Harassment

The National Science Foundation will require the institutions it funds to report findings of sexual or any other kind of harassment involving a principle investigator, according to a notice passed to Presidents of NSF Grantee organizations. Sexual harassment cases have rocked universities across the United States, such as the recent high-profile case involving students and…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum Feb 8

Watch This Guy Inject Himself With an Untested Herpes ‘Cure’

Last Sunday at the BodyHacking Con in Austin, Aaron Traywick joined the rarefied ranks of those who have experimented on themselves in the name of science. Only Traywick is not a scientist—he is the CEO of Ascendance Biomedical, a rogue biotech firm working with biohackers to develop treatments outside of FDA oversight and regulation. Traywick…

Biology Kristen V. Brown Feb 8

As the Winter Games Begin, Norovirus Continues to Spread at an Alarming Rate

The 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea is quickly resembling a terrible cruise, thanks to a norovirus outbreak that’s rapidly spreading. On Thursday, Korean health officials reported, there were 42 new cases diagnosed, bringing the tally up to 124 confirmed cases in total. Most of these cases have involved security staff at the Horeb…

Health Ed Cara Feb 8

This Startup Wants People to Inject Themselves With Untested Drugs

Aaron Traywick paced the stage like a caged lion. In a few minutes, he would drop trou in front of an audience and thrust a needle containing a highly experimental herpes treatment into his left thigh. For now, though, he stood alone in the spotlight, his slight frame cast in harsh silhouette and face fixed…

Biology Kristen V. Brown Feb 8

Snakes Could Be Spreading Flowers By Pooping Mice

You probably have this image of the circle of life in your head where a zebra eats a plant, a lion eats the zebra, the lion dies and fertilizes the soil, and then new plants grow. I mean, that sort of happens, but have you considered where snakes fit into all of this? A new…

Tech News Ryan F. Mandelbaum Feb 8

This Molecule Could Prevent Cancer Patients From Losing Their Lunch

One of the worst side-effects of cancer treatment is the inadvertent damage it causes to the gastrointestinal (GI) system, leading to nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. While there are short-term treatments available to help deal with these symptoms, oftentimes the damage can lead to chronic GI problems. Now, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh say they’ve…

Health Ed Cara Feb 7

Dino-Killing Asteroid Caused Magma to Burst From the Ocean Floor, Say Scientists

At the end of the Cretaceous era, a large meteorite ploughed into what is now Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. The collision set off a chain reaction of environmental calamities that likely contributed to the demise of the dinosaurs. New research is now adding to the list of ensuing catastrophes, suggesting the collision cracked our planet’s seafloor…

Tech News George Dvorsky Feb 7

Seafloor Exposed by Massive Antarctic Iceberg Is About to Get First Visitors

Portable Atomic Clock Makes First Measurement

Praying Mantises Have a Completely Different Way of Seeing in 3D

Scientists Are Hunting for the ‘Dark Photon’—a Portal to the Dark Universe

New Drugs Extend Lives of Men With Resistant Form Of Prostate Cancer

Idaho Legislators Don’t Want Science Teachers Teaching Climate Change [Updated]

How Much Is Too Much For a Life-Saving Drug?

Cautious Optimism as Scientists Grow Human Eggs From Immature Cells in the Lab

New Horizons Just Set a Record for Taking the Furthest Photographs Away From Earth

Scientists Have Mapped Out How Our Genes Might Lead to Mental Illness

This Crayfish Has Mutated Into a Super-Gross Tribble Nightmare

NASA Has Officially Listed Musk’s Tesla Roadster As a Celestial Object

Interstellar Asteroids Like ‘Oumuamua Could Rewrite the Origins of Life on Earth

Scientists React to New Ruling Requiring NSF-Funded Institutions to Report Sexual Harassment

Watch This Guy Inject Himself With an Untested Herpes ‘Cure’

As the Winter Games Begin, Norovirus Continues to Spread at an Alarming Rate

This Startup Wants People to Inject Themselves With Untested Drugs

Snakes Could Be Spreading Flowers By Pooping Mice

This Molecule Could Prevent Cancer Patients From Losing Their Lunch

Dino-Killing Asteroid Caused Magma to Burst From the Ocean Floor, Say Scientists

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