Science

It’s troubling news that gene therapy researchers have long anticipated: A hemophilia patient injected with a virus carrying a therapeutic gene in a clinical trial has developed a liver tumor. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has halted the associated clinical trials, and uniQure, the Dutch firm behind the […]

The massive $1.4 trillion spending bill that U.S. President Donald Trump signed into law early this morning once again reverses the deep cuts the outgoing president had proposed for most science agencies. Even so, the modest hikes for 2021 have left the research community wanting more.

They chirp, whistle and trill like droids — and scientists are hearing it now for the first time.

COVID-19 has now reached every continent.

Some experts have theorised the change could mean the new strain of coronavirus is more easily passed between children. This link, however, is yet to be proven.

People who struggle to support their basic needs—and those of their families—might feel a sense of fear and hopelessness. For some, that emotional distress results in mental health disorders such as anxiety and depression, which leave them vulnerable to even greater financial struggles.

In seafloor trenches around the world, slabs of old ocean crust fall in slow motion into the mantle, while fresh slabs are built at midocean ridges, where magma emerges at the seams between separating tectonic plates. The engine is relentless—but maybe not so steady: Beginning about 15 million years ago, […]

Scientists found more than 100,000 craters.

Hello, gorgeous.

Bee larvae and pupae appear to secrete a chemical that does the work of a late-night cup of coffee on their nurses.