Scientists decided to use dental floss to vaccinate mice. (This is an archived image, not the mouse in the study.) (Image credit: Lidia_Efimova via Shutterstock) Researchers have developed an innovative method of administering vaccines without using needles: through the gum.…
Researchers analyzed DNA from more than 1,000 people around the world to study human genomic variations in detail. (Image credit: Boris Zhitkov via Getty Images) Twenty-two years after the completion of the Human Genome Project, scientists have produced the most…
Researchers have found a significant number of whale bones on Vilcheka Island, located in the far north of Russia. (Photo: Nikita Demidov, AARI, Alexander Ermolov) Scientists have discovered that a glacier in the Russian Arctic is retreating at an astonishing…
A new study suggests that giant terror birds could have become prey if they weren’t careful around bodies of water. (Photo: Julian Bayona Becerra/Biology Letters) Fossilised bite marks suggest there may have been a spectacular fight between a giant terror…
It was not obvious why the woman and her partner were unable to become parents, but a series of allergy tests pointed to a possible cause. (Image credit: SEBASTIAN KAULITZKI/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY via Getty Images) Patient: 29-year-old woman from Lithuania.…
A non-hormonal birth control pill for men that aims to block spermatogenesis is in early clinical trials. (Image credit: Wavebreakmedia via Getty Images) An experimental non-hormonal birth control pill for men has just completed its first safety trials in humans.…
A very recent study suggests that Mollisonia symmetrica, an early ancestor of arachnids and horseshoe crabs, had a “primitive” brain similar to those of modern spiders. (Photo: Nick Strausfeld) A new study has shown that a unique fossilized brain suggests…
Wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone in 1995, more than 60 years after they were exterminated from the national park. (Photo: William Campbell/Sygma via Getty Images) Yellowstone’s wolves are helping to grow a new generation of young aspen trees that can…
Jared Fisher (left) and Jose Montoya Mira (right) are cancer researchers at The Ohio State University (OHSU) who created PAC-MANN, a test that uses a small blood sample to detect a key marker of the most common and deadly form…
A mako shark caught by the Shark Week crew during the filming of Black Makos of the Deep. (Image courtesy of Discovery Channel) In 2019, shark hunter Keith Poe caught an incredibly large shortfin mako shark off the coast of…