Strange & Offbeat
RFK's handpicked advisers are coming for the childhood vaccine schedule. Here's what to know.
An influential Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) vaccine advisory committee that has ...View More
What are the 'magic numbers' in nuclear physics, and why are they so powerful?
Some atoms are stable, while others seem to fall apart. Lead-208 will probably last forever, while t ...View More
11-Year-Old Child Hospitalized After Doing Homework for 14 Hours Straight
An 11-year-old boy in Changsha, China, required medical attention after doing homework and studying ...View More
Genetics: How do we inherit traits from our ancestors?
What makes every person unique? Part of the answer is in our genes.A gene is a basic unit of heredit ...View More
Grave Diggers Compete in the 8th International Grave Digging Championship
Every year, grave diggers from around the world gather in Hungary to compete in the International Gr ...View More
Even brief exposure to air pollution can push the placenta into an inflammatory state, lab study suggests
Even brief exposure to air pollution may alter the structure of the placenta and push the organ into ...View More
Science history: A tragic gene therapy death that stalled the field for a decade — Sept. 17, 1999
Twenty-six years ago today, on Sept. 17, a teenager who had received an experimental gene therapy di ...View More
The violent collisions that made Earth habitable
Southwest Research Institute collaborated with Yale University to summarize the scientific community ...View More
Stanford scientists reveal simple shift that could prevent strokes and obesity nationwide
Every spring, Americans dutifully adjust their clocks forward to daylight saving time, and every fal ...View More
Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro makes food taste sweeter and saltier, and that may quiet cravings
New research being presented at the Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diab ...View More
