This week, scientists have proposed the first method for detecting “mirror life,” a hypothetical form of synthetic biology that could pose serious environmental and biosecurity risks if ever created.
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Lost for eight decades, an unpublished manuscript by Erwin Schrödinger reveals the scientist’s previously unknown quantum musings.
Experiments show future forensic crime scene investigators could collect DNA evidence from thin air left behind by simulated home invaders.
Scientists have produced electrical phenomena in the lab that could offer clues to how mysterious ball lightning forms in nature.
Climate change has erased two millennia of progress toward a new global ice age, potentially validating controversial claims from the 1970s.
As a former police K9 handler I explain how Warhound's genetics could improve working dog breeding, performance and animal welfare.
The United Nations has issued a warning about the potential misuse of neurotechnology, calling for limits on the rapidly advancing field.
An astronomical redating of Vincent van Gogh's painting The Starry Night confirmed the artist used real stellar data in his masterpiece.
Forcing a small piece of antimatter into a controlled quantum state may be essential to proving the Standard Model of particle physics.
A protein analysis of 60,000-year-old ochre from an ancient human site in South Africa has revealed previously unknown animal exploitation.
A new analysis of a mysterious skeleton discovered in a Westminster Abbey sarcophagus in the 1800s has identified two likely candidates.
Water behaves very strangely under extreme conditions beyond Earth, according to researchers at the University of Nevada.
A hypothetical heavy neutrino may have altered conditions in the early universe, offering clues to the mystery of how and why we exist.