SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

That there is tremendous potential for nanotechnology to transform cancer detection and treatment is a vision that...

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The iconic sideways walk of crabs may have evolved just once, in an ancestor that roamed Earth roughly 200 million years ago.That conclusion, published April 21 in eLife, comes from researchers who tracked the movement of 50 crab species...

Before Smile can begin studying how Earth responds to the streams of particles and bursts of radiation from the Sun, the spacecraft had to complete an extraordinary journey here on Earth.Follow the mission through its final launch preparations at...

This spring, British explorer and chef Mike Keen will spend roughly a month skiing across Greenland with a sled dog. Along the way, the duo will subsist entirely on slowly decomposing seal meat.Keen’s roughly 320-kilometer ski across the country’s...

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals an enigmatic galaxy with a bright center and a face that hints at spiral structure, yet it holds no obvious spiral arms. Reddish-brown clumps and filaments of dust partially obscure the galaxy’s...

A therapy that has revolutionised how we treat blood and skin cancers could become even more effective. Making cancer...

Here’s a simple task that might help you to understand your mind a little better. Place your finger on...

On Thursday, NASA issued a Request for Proposal (RFP), seeking industry collaboration for the Mars Telecommunications Network. Reliable, high bandwidth communications is necessary to relay science data, high-definition imagery, and critical information during Mars missions. The network will use high-performance...

When Akorfa Dagadu arrived at MIT, she had a solution in mind: a mobile app to improve...