The notion that a baby’s beginnings could transpire in a petri dish seems unremarkable today. But not even 50 years ago, researchers’ efforts to devise…
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Sperm appears to be unfazed by long stints in outer space. In the longest biological experiment on the International Space Station yet, freeze-dried mouse sperm…
Roughly six months ago, on December 11, the Food and Drug Administration authorized the first COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use in the United States. What…
A giant arc of galaxies appears to stretch across more than 3 billion light-years in the distant universe. If the arc turns out to be…
On February 7, a massive flood rushed through a valley in India’s Himalayan Uttarakhand state, washing out two hydroelectric power plants and leaving at least…
There are only so many ways to cram DNA into a cell’s nucleus, a study suggests. A cell’s complete genetic blueprint, or genome, is densely…
If you could peer into a particle physicist’s daydream, you might spy a vision of a giant lunar particle accelerator. Now, researchers have calculated what…
Humans may have inhabited what’s now southern Mexico surprisingly early, between 33,448 and 28,279 years ago, researchers say. If so, those people arrived more than…
In the beginning, no one really understood how babies were made. Thinkers puzzled for millennia about how life arose from one generation to the next.…
A new view of the human brain shows its cellular residents in all their wild and weird glory. The map, drawn from a tiny piece…