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2,000-year-old Chinese herbal therapy plays major role in Nobel Prize for...
Malaria in Burma. Photo by Tom Stoddart Archive/via Getty Images Traditional herbal medicine pharmacist Youyou Tu has become the 12th woman and China’s first person awarded the Nobel Prize in...
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Obama announces new marine sanctuaries, a first in 15 years
Aerial view of Mallows Bay in Maryland, one of the two new designated marine sanctuaries announced by President Barack Obama via a video message Monday during the second annual Our Ocean conference in...
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Nobel Prize awarded for changing neutrinos, the ‘chameleons’ of particle physics
Torn between identities – tau-, electron- or myon-neutrino? Photo by The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. What’s the “flavor” of a neutrino, and does it change? For their work in discovering the...
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DNA repair research wins 3 scientists Nobel Prize in chemistry
Tomas Lindahl (left), Paul Modrich, and Aziz Sancar split the 2015 Nobel Prize in chemistry for mechanistic studies of DNA repair. Illustrations by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Damage to your...
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Innovation ‘isn’t so much about the eureka moment’
Innovators rarely travel a straight path to arrive at a new idea. Failure — lots of failure — often paves the way. At least eight out of every 10 new consumer products that enter the market will fail,...
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Scientist who discovered HIV says achieving remission in patients may be...
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioMEGAN THOMPSON: In the early 1980s, French scientist Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, one of only a few women at the prestigious Pasteur Institute in Paris, began seeing...
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Can your ‘brain fingerprint’ reveal how smart you are?
This image shows the functional connections in the brain that tend to be most discriminating of individuals. Many of them are between the frontal and parietal lobes, which are involved in complex...
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The life of Sally Ride, America’s first woman astronaut, in pictures
There should be an embedded item here. Please visit the original post to view it. If you were a child in the ’80s or ’90s, you knew Sally Ride. By 1963, Russia had launched a woman into space, but...
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Did our paleo ancestors sleep better than us?
San hunter-gatherers from Namibia sleep about 6.4 hours per night on average. Photo by Josh Davimes In modern society, we leave the lights on and stay up late. We watch Netflix or scroll news stories...
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These hunter-gatherer tribes sleep less than you, and sleep better
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioHARI SREENIVASAN: But, first, just how much sleep do you really need? There’s been plenty of concern, as people spend more time looking at their screens ever later into...
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Robots teach themselves martial arts to avoid smashing into the ground
ESCHER (Electromechanical Series Compliant Humanoid for Emergency Response) robot takes a tumble at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Robotics Challenge June 5, 2015 in Pomona, California....
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New imagery from Pompeii yields surprising findings about ancient humans
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioMEGAN THOMPSON: Two-and-a-half million people visit Pompeii every year, making it one of Italy’s busiest tourist attractions. The ancient city, close to modern-day...
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The countries where global warming will shrink bank accounts
A new study from Stanford pinpoints the best annual temperature for getting the job done. Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock/Getty Images It’s no secret that summer lends itself better to...
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Do bigger family jewels mean deeper voices (in howler monkeys)?
A chorus of howler monkeys of the species Alouatta caraya. Photo by Mariana Raño Baby, I’m howlin’ for you. Male howler monkeys make deep and boisterous calls to attract mates, but the deepest-pitched...
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Will you die prematurely? This blood test may contain the answer
Higher levels of a set of blood markers correlate with premature death, and scientists may have figured out why. People Photo by JGI/Jamie Grill/via Getty Images A blood test claims to provide more...
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Before the bubonic plague wrecked Europe, it was way less contagious
Scene from “The plague in Marseilles in 1721″ by Michel Serre. The Great Plague of Marseilles was the last large-scale European outbreak of the disease. Photo by DEA / G. DAGLI ORTI/via Getty Images...
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NASA carefully steers New Horizons mission toward second target
Artist’s impression of NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft encountering a Pluto-like object in the distant Kuiper Belt. If NASA approves a proposal to extend New Horizons’ mission by 2016, the spacecraft...
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The science of how Hurricane Patricia became so colossal
Hurricane Patricia as viewed from the International Space Station. Photo by Scott Kelly/NASA In early July, six cyclones struck the Pacific Ocean at once, marking the first time in a decade that this...
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How the ingredients for a catastrophic storm came together for Hurricane...
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: Hurricane Patricia has been described as potentially one of the most dangerous storms to ever hit the Western Hemisphere. Meteorologists now say that...
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Bacon, hot dogs and processed meats cause cancer, WHO says
Barbecue with sausages and hamburger. Photo by JOKER/Erich Haefele/ullstein bild/via Getty Images Bacon, sausage and other processed meats are now ranked alongside cigarettes and asbestos as known...
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