Four new elements are being added to the period table: Nihonium (element 113), Moscovium (element 114), Tennessine (element 115), and Oganesson (element 118). Scientists in Japan...
The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), an organisation recognised as the world authority in chemical sciences has finally announced the proposed names for...
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration has developed a new method to locate and monitor sources of air pollution using satellites. NASA recently used this...
A new HIV vaccination, developed by Dr. Louis Picker and his team of researchers at Oregon Health & Science University, is ready for clinical testing on humans. Picker...
Despite a National Institutes of Health moratorium on the funding of such research, scientists at the University of California, Davis have injected pig embryos with human stem cells as an...
It’s not news that the universe is expanding, but a team of astronomers have discovered that the universe is expanding at a 5 to 9 percent...
Doubling the duration of hormone therapy for women with early-stage breast cancer from five to 10 years reduces the risk of recurrence and developing tumors in...
Fish are being killed, and prevented from reaching maturity, by the litter of plastic particles finding their way into the world’s oceans, new research has proved. Some...
Beneath Jupiter’s colorful bands, giant spots and swirling clouds lay giant waves of ammonia that rise and fall from deep within the planet’s turbulent atmosphere, a...
Strap on your birthday hats and break out the cake and candles, because a new ‘dragon’ just hatched inside Postojna Cave in southwestern Slovenia! No, they’re...