Science

NASA’s new Administrator Jim Bridenstine is a climate change skeptic – and naturally the usual suspects are furious.

Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) tried to block the typically less political procedural confirmation vote for NASA administrator Wednesday, only to flip his vote when it became clear the nomination would otherwise fail.

Robotics manufacturers and their affiliates are campaigning for a limited “electronic personality” to be granted to their high-tech automatons, but experts around the world are pushing back.

The infamous “club drug” ketamine may provide the key to helping people living on the edge of self-destruction.

New York City mice may be carrying some potentially harmful bacteria and viruses that could cause life-threatening diseases in humans, according to a study published Tuesday.

A gay man and attorney who worked on high-profile LGBT cases, including a challenge the Boy Scouts ban on homosexual members, set himself on fire on Saturday at a public park in New York City to protest fossil fuels and climate change, according to a suicide note.

Another march took place in downtown Washington, D.C. on Saturday – this one featuring anti-faith, pro-climate change, pro-LGBT activists, unions, and other left-wing, anti-Trump groups carrying signs and posters to advance the cause of science.

The New York Times on Wednesday found Chinese President Xi Jinping’s cult of personality and communist-nationalist ideology reaching even unto the sperm banks of Beijing, where a hospital sperm bank ran an online advertisement seeking donors who “have good ideological thoughts, love the socialist motherland, and support the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party.”

A new study by researchers at the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) found the triple-digit number of maternal deaths reported in the state during 2012 were, in fact, wrong, inflated, and, likely the result of incorrect coding.

At an estimated 85 feet in length, the newly discovered ichthyosaur might just be the biggest prehistoric creature ever recorded.

A shift from mouse models to stem cell research may have unlocked a new way to help prevent one of the world’s most tragic incurable diseases — Alzheimer’s disease.

The Micro-11 mission will test the performance of sperm in microgravity aboard the International Space Station for the first time.

Research suggests that the clouds of Venus may, in fact, support microbial life forms.

Michigan is on alert after it was revealed that the Chinese space station expected to re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere could land in the state’s southern peninsula.

China’s Tiangong-1 space station is expected to reenter Earth’s atmosphere as a fiery ball of shrapnel in the first minutes of April, according to Aerospace.org.

A new study suggests that personal embarrassment can be mitigated by identifying with observers, rather than the subject themselves.

Fewer and fewer Republicans and Independents believe that ‘climate change’ is a credible threat; more and more Democrats do. ‘Global warming’, it is becoming increasingly clear, is a political issue and not a scientific one.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk claims his Boring Company’s new bricks will allow a home’s outer walls to be constructed by two people within “a day or so.”

The scare about global warming is overdone, according to more than 40 scientific papers published in just the first three months of 2018.

By freezing the “hunger nerve,” doctors may have discovered the secret to the body’s natural “revenge” on caloric restriction.

The final paper which Professor Stephen Hawking filed before his death last week “lays the framework for how researchers could someday test the ‘multiverse’ theory,” according to a report.

The United States Army is developing compact weapons platforms “optimized for fighting in dense urban terrain.”

Research published in Science Translational Medicine could help mend the disconnect between patients and their prosthetic limbs.

According to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russia will beat NASA to Mars with a mission launching in 2019.

Astronaut Scott Kelly’s DNA was irrevocably altered by his time in space, according to NASA.

A startup claims that they can upload customer’s brains to the cloud in a process that is “100% fatal.”

World-famous physicist Professor Stephen Hawking has died at age 76.
The Telegraph reported that Hawking “died peacefully at his home in Cambridge in the early hours of Wednesday morning.”

Despite positive affirmations about progress toward sending humans further into space than ever before, SpaceX founder Elon Musk says that there is a “good chance you will die” if you participate in the early voyages to Mars.

The latest report released by Texas public health officials shows the state’s flu-related death toll surpassed 4,150 since the onset of this year’s influenza season.

Scientists from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, have invented a smartphone device that could help to prevent food poisoning.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has given its prestigious award for Public Engagement with Science to climate scientist, Michael E. Mann.

A group of 182 self-proclaimed “scientists” wrote a letter to the American Museum of Natural History in New York demanding that it cut ties with trustees and donors whose politics they find objectionable.

Stanford University researchers have reported 97 percent laboratory success eliminating metastasized tumors in mice by injecting vaccines directly into tumors to activate T cells.

Women are more likely to find men attractive if they are sought after by other women, according to a study published Monday.

The Senate is scheduled to take an initial vote next week on a measure that would prohibit abortions in the United States past the twentieth week – or fifth month – of pregnancy.