List of All Articles with Tag 'science'

Earth may be the most precious place we have, but it isn't priceless. We know because one scientist did the math.

The shape of an animal’s pupils is a clue to its place in the food chain.

Kidney transplants my one day get an assist from porcine vessels.

Dolly the sheep was the first animal cloned from a single adult cell—and raised a lot of questions about the future of human cloning.

Dracunculiasis, or Guinea worm disease is, by all accounts, pretty awful: A person with the disease hosts a parasitic worm that forms a painful blister under the skin that eventually bursts, allowing the worm to emerge and lay its eggs in water. Those afflicted don't just endure pain (although there's plenty of that); they also run the risk of secondary infection and permanent paralysis, and there are economic consequences to the disease, too.

The birth of our universe happened at least 13 billion years ago—and you may have seen it on TV.

9. Dogs have a sweet tooth, but cats don't.

You’ve probably heard about the famous rivalry between Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison—both giants of electrical engineering whose innovations changed history. But what exactly was their history with one another?That whole boss/employee thing. Tesla, a Ser

( )Parentheses (the single one is called a parenthesis), also known as curved brackets, have plenty of uses in everyday written language. Their most common use, as I’ve demonstrated already, is segregating subordinate material or asides. Usually, this is

To block microwave radiation, all you need is a simple screen.

If you've ever wondered how long it takes a whole watermelon to decay, this timelapse video has the answer.

The Portuguese Man O' War might look like a bloated jellyfish, but it’s actually a strange amalgamation of tiny life forms.