Science

Celebrities often use their platforms to spread awareness on important issues. But while many of us have become numb to their warnings, there’s something about Harrison Ford that makes people sit up and listen.Maybe it’s the cult following he’s acquired from playing heroic characters like Indiana Jones and Han Solo.More likely, though, it’s because Ford […]

Scientists say they have found a long–sought-after population of stem cells in the retina of human fetuses that could be used to develop therapies for one of the leading causes of blindness. The use of fetal tissue, a source of ethical debate and controversy in some countries, likely wouldn’t be necessary for an eventual therapy:

The season in which you were conceived could have a surprising impact on how your metabolism works today. The largest study of its kind has found that individuals conceived in colder months store fat differently from those conceived in warmer months.Among 356 healthy young male volunteers, researchers in Japan found that those who were conceived

New evidence has emerged that volcanoes were active on the Moon far more recently than previously believed. A study published in Science reveals that the Moon experienced volcanic eruptions as late as 120 million years ago, coinciding with the time of Earth’s dinosaurs. This discovery stems from the analysis of glass beads collected by China’s Chang’e-5 lunar mission in

In early February, an Australian man in his 40s became the first person in the world to leave hospital with a virtually unbreakable heart made of metal. ‘Beating’ in his chest was a titanium pump about the size of a fist. For 105 days, the metal organ’s levitating propeller pushed blood to the man’s lungs

French scientists on Tuesday announced that they had reached a “crucial milestone” in the long road towards nuclear fusion by managing to maintain raging-hot plasma for a record 22 minutes.Nuclear fusion has the much-vaunted potential to provide the world with clean, safe and nearly inexhaustible energy – but the scientific holy grail has remained stubbornly elusive over decades. The

A new model of Alzheimer’s disease has been proposed, which could speed up efforts to understand and cure the complex condition – while bringing all manifestations of the condition under one unifying theory.Researchers from Arizona State University suggest that stress granules – protein and RNA clumps that form around cells in stressful conditions due to genetic and