Science

A new study in BMJ has concluded unborn babies can feel pain before 24 weeks and possibly as early as 12 weeks’ gestation.

A huge winter storm struck parts of the Northeast with a dangerous mix of snow and ice as it moved offshore over the weekend. 

The flu season is far from over, yet a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states this season’s vaccine for the flu strain primarily affecting children is only a 58 percent match.

Researchers have conducted experiments on dozens of young Mexican women, paying them to be artificially inseminated and then extracting their embryos for analysis, NPR reported Thursday.

The United States’ scientific lead is shrinking as China and other nations build up their science resources, says a report prepared by the National Science Board.

Dr. Michael Baden, a former New York City medical examiner, alleged Thursday that autopsy photos of Jeffrey Epstein show he had burst capillaries in his eyes, which is a more common occurrence with strangulation than with hanging.

A 35-year-old former Navy SEAL and graduate of Harvard Medical School added yet another accomplishment to his list by becoming the first Korean-American NASA astronaut.

President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines told reporters on Monday that he planned to disregard doctors’ warnings to stay away from the volcano Taal, currently erupting near Manila, and “pee” on the “damned volcano.”

An observant teenager made the discovery of a lifetime during his internship at NASA this summer in Greenbelt, Maryland.

The Lancet medical journal announced Friday the development of a Planetary Health Watch (PHW) system to monitor levels of climate change and other “planetary boundaries.”

A panel of experts said Wednesday that California’s devastating wildfires were caused primarily by “the way we manage lands and develop our landscape” rather than climate change.

Republican lawmakers in five states are drafting bills to prevent high school students from participating in sports based gender identity.

NASA astronaut Christina Koch on Saturday became the latest woman to spend the longest time in space.

Transgender activists want to define women as “womxn” to blur and hide the biology-based cultural and legal distinctions between men and women.

Automakers are reportedly spying on car owners by recording their every move, according to an experiment by a professional hacker and the Washington Post.

A partial annular solar eclipse will illuminate the sky with a “ring of fire” during the day in the Eastern Hemisphere the day after Christmas.

The editors of the Merriam-Webster dictionary have joined the pro-transgender campaign to erase the popular recognition that men and women are different and complementary.

The man who started the viral Ice Bucket Challenge to raise money for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) research died of the disease Monday.

ROME — “We are called to recognize in every person with a disability, even with complex and serious disabilities, a unique contribution to the common good,” Pope Francis said Tuesday.

The driver of a tour bus on the Galapagos Islands has been fined over $11,000 for having accidentally run over a tortoise in danger of extinction, damaging the creature’s shell.

Climate change alarmists are pushing for a change in vocabulary to scare people into taking global warming more seriously, starting with terms like “global meltdown” and “climate collapse.”

Two powerful storms are expected to hit the U.S. this week, threatening the nation’s holiday travel plans. 

Milwaukee County Transit System buses recorded footage of “one heck of a meteor” on Saturday evening.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is sending “Starlink” satellites into orbit so frequently that “it will likely end ground-based astronomy as we know it,” due to the fact that they prevent scientists from viewing the night sky from earth-based observatories uninterrupted, a prominent astrophysicist has warned.

More than 75,000 pounds of salad have been recalled due to a possible E. coli contamination, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

The once prestigious Lancet medical journal argues this week that appeals to “biological sex” over gender are misguided because “sex, as much as gender, is culturally contingent.”

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship rocket suffered another setback this week after it partially burst apart during pressure testing in Texas.

Pope Francis told a group of lawyers that he could like to introduce the category of “ecological sin” into official Catholic teaching.

Alarmist news media have blamed the closing of a Greenland airport on manmade global warming, declaring Friday that the airfield is the “latest victim of climate change.”

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk claimed during a recent appearance on an artificial intelligence podcast that his AI tech startup Neuralink could implant chips into human brains which could “solve a lot of brain-related diseases,” listing schizophrenia and autism as examples.