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Will pioneering work to alter genes in human germ cells or early embryos allow us to make superbabies, and is it ethical? New Scientist explores the issues

Cooperating with wolves could have given humans the edge over Neanderthals when we entered Europe, says palaeoanthropologist Pat Shipman (full text available to subscribers)

Cyclone Pam, which tore across Vanuatu, killing eight people, has been explicitly linked to climate change by the country's president and climate scientists

A 17-million-year-old beaked whale fossil is helping researchers solve a puzzle about the likely birthplace of humanity in East Africa, a new study finds.

A team from Princeton University and the University of Florence in Italy has discovered a quasicrystal--so named because of its unorthodox arrangement of atoms--in a 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite from a remote region of...

Two reports from Los Alamos National Laboratory this week in the Nature journal Scientific Reports are helping crack the code of how certain materials respond in the highly-damaging radiation environments within a nuclea...

Originally published: Mar 10 2015 - 12:45pm, Inside Science News ServiceBy: Peter Gwynne, Contributor(Inside Science) - A type of spider commonly found in British retail nurseries has a unique way of spinning its web, ac...

Working out probabilities is just simple maths, right? Wrong - from drug trials to court cases, being Bayesian or frequentist can make all the difference (full text available to subscribers)

Using airborne laser scanners, researchers have discovered ancient fortifications in Italy that make up the oldest known Roman military camp, where soldiers may have fought pirates more than 2,000 years ago.

At the Robot Petting Zoo, makers showed off everything from a social robot to an insectlike creature that gazes longingly into your eyes.

An ingredient in some cough medicines may help in the fight against Type 2 diabetes, new findings suggest.

The best hope for cheap, super-efficient solar power is a remarkable family of crystalline materials called hybrid perovskites. In just five years of development, hybrid perovskite solar cells have attained power convers...

One hundred years after Albert Einstein formulated the general theory of relativity, an international team has proposed another experimental proof. In a paper published today in Nature Physics, researchers from the Hebre...

This year's El Niño may deliver a quiet tornado season.

The yeti, a legendary shaggy, bipedal beast from the Himalayas, made headlines last year when a geneticist said he had solved the mystery of its origins. But now, scientists have found the hair samples used in that study...

Eavesdropping on seismic waves rumbling through our planet helps us work out its internal structure, and now one team aims to map the entire mantle in this way

The underlying mechanism behind an enigmatic process called "singlet exciton fission", which could enable the development of significantly more powerful solar cells, has been identified by scientists in a new study.

The best hope for cheap, super-efficient solar power is a remarkable family of crystalline materials called hybrid perovskites. In just five years of development, hybrid perovskite solar cells have attained power convers...

Low vaccination rates are what's driving the large outbreak of measles that began at Disneyland in California last December, a new analysis suggests.

In the eyes of physicists, magnetic molecules can be considered as nanoscale magnets. Remotely controlling the direction in which they rotate, like spinning tops, may intuitively be difficult to achieve. However, Russian...

These low-cost satellites are limited in what they can do by the lack of a good propulsion system, but using ice could change that

In a March Madness-style tournament, Live Science is looking to settle the debate about which creature is the deadliest in the Animal Kingdom.