Tag: science

Today, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a historic treatment for sickle cell disease. Casgevy is the first medicine based on CRISPR gene-editing technology. The procedure was ...

December 4 Mercury at Greatest Elongation December 13 and 14 Geminids Meteor Shower Predicted Peak December 21 Winter Solstice December 22 and 23  Ursids Meteor Shower Predicted Peak December 26 ...

Patterns on animal skin, such as zebra stripes and poison frog color patches, serve various biological functions, including temperature regulation, camouflage and warning signals. The colors making up these patterns must be distinct and ...

A recent study published in Nature Geoscience uses supercomputer climate models to examine how a supercontinent, dubbed Pangea Ultima (also called Pangea Proxima), that will form 250 million years from ...

For most Americans, eggs matter a lot. In a year, an average American is estimated to eat almost 300 eggs (that’s either in the form of eggs by themselves or ...

Jodi Bobbitt, the school nurse at William Ramsay Elementary in Alexandria, Virginia, is always ready to see children with a wide range of injuries and illnesses. One day during the ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is its ability to give astronomers detailed views of areas where

About a third of the food produced around the world goes to waste, and much of it ends up in landfills—where it becomes a source of methane, a greenhouse gas ...

While there is evidence that pets are great at curbing loneliness and boosting your physical activity, other purported benefits may not be as rooted in science as some believe.

Ever since the US started churning out per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in the 1940s, these long-lived toxic chemicals have been accumulating everywhere humans have trodden. Since then, these compounds have leached from industrial ...