Category: Science

The appearance of your street — not just its noise level — may affect how well you sleep. A recent international study analyzed data from over a thousand Tokyo commuters...

Researchers have used CRISPR gene editing to produce two beagle puppies that completely lack the protein responsible for most dog allergies in humans. The puppies, named Bailey and Alfie, were...

British startup DEEP has installed a permanently moored underwater habitat called Vanguard in the Florida Keys, at a depth of 17 meters. The steel cylinder — roughly 10.5 meters long...

A study of elderly residents in Sardinia’s Blue Zone — a region famous for its high proportion of people living past 90 — has found that certain personality traits are...

Two newly confirmed exoplanets are roughly the size of Jupiter yet astonishingly light — so light, in fact, that their density is lower than that of cotton candy. Researchers at...

Decades of financial hardship are associated with measurable cognitive decline and structural brain changes visible on MRI, according to a study that tracked 2,759 people born in 1946 across several...

The COVID-19 pandemic is over, but scientists warn that another global outbreak is not a question of “if” but “when.” The WHO states a new pandemic could arrive “in 20...

The Voyager probes crossed the heliopause — the boundary where the solar wind gives way to interstellar plasma — more than a decade ago. Headlines at the time declared they...

Around 280 million years ago, an insect with a wingspan exceeding 71 centimeters patrolled the skies of the Permian period. Meganeuropsis permiana, often called a giant dragonfly, was in fact...

Researchers at the University of Waterloo in Canada have developed a method to 3D-print custom silicone contact lenses in roughly 20 minutes — potentially eliminating the months-long wait and high...