SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins’s first book, was published in October 1976 and 50 years on, it is still...

Scientist Saul Justine Newman debunks high-profile longevity research and antiaging “medicine” in a new book. Source link

For decades, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has relied on an independent scientific program to answer two basic questions when chemicals come up for review: Does the chemical pose a threat to human health? If...

Geneva — The World Health Organization on Wednesday said the risk of the Democratic Republic of Congo's deadly Ebola outbreak was currently high at the national and regional levels but low worldwide. WHO experts said that...

Wales' new government must do more to prepare the country for climate change, says an advisory body. Source link

Justin Solomon, associate professor in the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), has been...

At 19, Tucker Francis was living his dream.About a decade earlier, he had sailed around the northwest Atlantic with his family, and his passion for the ocean and adventure blossomed. He loved snorkeling and recreational freediving, the loose term...

The ocean could be the next frontier for the world’s rapidly expanding solar energy industry. That’s the finding of...

Using a powerful single-molecule imaging method they developed, a research team from the Broad Institute of MIT...

A biotech company that aims to resurrect lost creatures said Tuesday it has hatched live chicks in an artificial environment — a development that was met with mixed reviews from scientists and critics of its...