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New report warns that China could overtake the US as top nation in space — and it could happen 'in 5-10 years,' expert claims
A new report warns that China's rapid and unrelenting growth within the space sector will see the co ...View More
Tiny 'brains' grown in the lab could become conscious and feel pain — and we're not ready
Scientists are getting closer to growing human brains in the lab, and it's spurring an ethical debat ...View More
How to see the moon, Venus and the bright star Regulus in an ultraclose conjunction tomorrow
One of the best naked-eye stargazing sights of the year is on offer to skywatchers this week — if yo ...View More
'There's no shoving that genie back in the bottle': Readers believe it's too late to stop the progression of AI
Should humanity pull the brakes on artificial intelligence (AI) before it endangers our very surviva ...View More
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
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
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
'We certainly weren't exceptional, but now we're the only ones left': In new PBS series 'Human,' anthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi explores how humans came to dominate Earth
When Homo sapiens first emerged in Africa some 300,000 years ago, we did not roam the planet alone.O ...View More
