(CNN) To grow human organs within animal bodies has long been the dream of scientists wanting to provide transplantable hearts, lungs, kidneys and other organs for patients in need.
Leaders of several of the nation’s top science organizations say they’ve been shunned by the Trump administration and are alarmed by signs that the administration will muzzle government researchers and reject the scientific evidence that informs such …
The NASA astronauts who fly aboard Boeing’s new spaceship will wear sleek, blue suits that are lighter, simpler and more comfortable than the bulky orange gear of the space shuttle era, company representatives said.
Sheryl Chaffee remembers the January evening when astronaut Mike Collins came to the door and asked to speak with her mother. The two talked in a bedroom of the Chaffee home.
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Rogue Twitter feeds voicing employee concerns at more than a dozen U.S. government agencies have been launched in defiance of what they say are President Donald Trump’s attempts to muzzle federal climate change research and other science.
(CNN) In excavating the medieval site of the St. Mary Magdalen hospital cemetery and chapel in Winchester, England, researchers were looking to genotype a strain of leprosy.
Masi Sadaiyan and Vaidivel Gopal have been paid $68,888 and they will stay in Florida through February. Faced with losing a frustrating battle against invasive Burmese pythons, the state of Florida has turned to an unusual source for help: two …
Astronomers have pegged the universe’s current expansion rate – a value known as the Hubble constant, after American astronomer Edwin Hubble – at about 44.7 miles (71.9 kilometers) per second per megaparsec.
This article follows up another Forbes article we published in late September just as we were picking up coverage of the company. It is a summary of a detailed report we published to our members, which you can download free here.
D-Wave, a company based in British Columbia, has announced a new version of its quantum annealer: the D-Wave 2000Q. As the name suggests, the number of bits has increased from about 1,000 to just over 2,000.
Hi. It’s been a hard week. Come look at this photo of Jupiter with me, won’t you? The image, taken by NASA’s somewhat troubled, but still functioning Juno spacecraft orbiting the giant plant, shows off Jupiter’s clouds swirling and storms brewing.
A new satellite launched last year is starting to be a game changer in the world of meteorology. GOES-16 is part of a new generation of technology that’s bringing more detailed images of the Earth to scientists and space observers.
The Israeli company SpaceIL is among the five finalists in the Google Lunar XPRIZE competition; the objective: launch the first Israeli space shuttle to the moon.
This view from the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows part of an area on Mars where narrow rock ridges, some as tall as a 16-story building, intersect at angles forming corners of polygons.
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