The unwillingness of scientists at the University of East Anglia to release climate data to people who choose not to believe in climate change was a mistake. Science advances through openness, through the ability of others to replicate the same findings or demonstrate error in discovery and interpretation. Reluctance to disclose – revealed last week [...]
Toronto Police dealt with an unusual call from an east-end residence on Thursday — they encountered five snakes, including one that’s highly venomous.
Researchers have performed the first complete genomic sequencing of a brain cancer cell line, a discovery that may lead to personalized treatments based on the unique biological signature of an individual’s cancer and a finding that may unveil new m…
Draw a map of the brain when fear and anxiety are involved, and the amygdala looms large. But scientists have now extended the brain’s fear map to include the prelimbic cortex. Researchers found that mice lacking a critical growth factor in the prel…
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Dr. Lange’s work as an astrophysicist put him in the middle of one of the grandest quests in science and led to the discovery that the universe is flat.
Billions of people today owe their lives to a single discovery now a century old. In 1909 German chemist Fritz Haber of the University of Karlsruhe figured out a way to transform nitrogen gas–which is abundant in the atmosphere but nonreactive and …
Last week, a Norwegian guy discovered a strange shape in the night sky. Discovery News investigated the odd shape with aurora experts and discovered that it might be the first “satellite aurora flare” ever observed. Auroral light may have been refle…
Discovery challenges understanding of blood cell developmentSALT LAKE CITY – University of Utah researchers led an international team of scientists that is the first to report on the previously undescribed ability of platelets to reproduce themselves…
The hole in the ozone layer is now steadily closing, but its repair could actually increase warming in the southern hemisphere, according to scientists at the University of Leeds.The Antarctic ozone hole was once regarded as one of the biggest environm…