NASA / STScI An example/illustration of gravitational lensing, and the bending of starlight due to mass. For the first time, a gravitational lens has been used to test Einstein’s theory of General Relativity against the alternatives. In 1915, Albert Einstein put forth a new theory of gravity: General Relativity. Instead of every mass in the

My fondest memories as a young child involve being outdoors running wild with my cousins. Doing cartwheels in the yard, swimming in the river, lake and ocean, or riding horses. But each summer night concluded with the same pre-bath ritual: tick check. Now that might sound crazy to people raised in a city. But when

Shutterstock A new review and analysis of several studies has found that probiotics do not improve self-reported anxiety symptoms in humans, not even a little. The study reviewed 36 preclinical studies in total, 14 involving humans and 22 involving rats and mice. That’s a decent-sized sampling of the research covering a variety of probiotic strains, and it turned

Tweet This In this late Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2018, image made from dashcam video, a brightly lit object falls from the sky above a highway in the southern Michigan skyline. (Zack Lawler/WWMT via AP) WASHINGTON: NASA’s office of communications hosted a media teleconference today to announce the release of a new report from The White

C. Faucher-Giguère, A. Lidz, and L. Hernquist, Science 319, 5859 (47) The expanding Universe, full of galaxies and complex structure we see today, arose from a smaller, hotter, denser, more uniform state in the past. There must be some new form of energy driving the current phase of accelerated expansion, beyond the known matter and

In this Sunday, June 10, 2018 photo from the U.S. Geological Survey, fissure 8 below Kilauea Volcano continues to erupt vigorously with lava streaming through a channel that reaches the ocean at Kapoho Bay on the island of Hawaii . The width of the active part of the lava channel varies along its length, but

Addario Lung Cancer Foundation Stage IV lung cancer survivors Emily Bennett Taylor and Sandy Jauregui were featured as part of The Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation’s #BeatLungCancer billboard campaign to address the stigma surrounding lung cancer patients. David Brooks, the highly-regarded columnist for The New York Times, recently wrote about Americans having a tremendous

NASA, ESA, H. Teplitz and M. Rafelski (IPAC/Caltech), A. Koekemoer (STScI), R. Windhorst (Arizona State University), and Z. Levay (STScI) Various long-exposure campaigns, like the Hubble eXtreme Deep Field (XDF) shown here, have revealed thousands of galaxies in a volume of the Universe that represents a fraction of a millionth of the sky. Ambitious, flagship-class

HOUSTON (Reuters) – As a boy growing up in Kansas, Nick Hague looked up at the stars and wanted to explore the unknown. In October, his dream will come true when he blasts off on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station. NASA Astronaut Nick Hague kneels down in the Cupola during Robotic Arms

Courtesy Hauck Center for the Albert B. Sabin Archives, Henry R. Winkler Center for the History of the Health Professions, University of Cincinnati Libraries. Dr. Albert Sabin (l) and Dr. Jonas Salk (r), an immigrant and the son of an immigrant, created the two vaccines without which “American children would continue to be paralyzed for

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said he was ordering the creation of a sixth branch of the military to focus on space, a move critics said could harm the Air Force. “It is not enough to merely have an American presence in space. We must have American dominance in space,” Trump

As a genetic counselor, it is always challenging to tell the patient sitting in front of you that she carries a genetic mutation (or, a pathogenic variant, as it is now called) that could negatively impact her health.  But, perhaps more challenging, is telling the person that her family members are also at risk of

Fusion is the process of building up simple atoms into larger more complex ones. It releases a lot of energy, and occurs every day in the sun and every other star in the Universe. The trick for humans is to harness it on Earth for producing clean abundant energy. On February 22, 2016 Bill Gates

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (Reuters) – A master distiller and a crop scientist who specializes in corn breeding are working on a project they hope one day will help bring local identities to American whiskeys. Seth Murray, a top corn breeder at Texas A&M University, and Rob Arnold, working on a doctorate at the school while

Nine of Africa’s 13 largest and oldest baobabs have suddenly collapsed and died, likely due to climate change, say scientists who study these ancient and iconic trees Ferdinand Reus via a Creative Commons license Baobab tree (Adansonia digitata) and elephant in Tanzania.(Credit: Ferdinand Reus / CC-BY-SA 2.0) Baobabs, sometimes known as “upside down trees”, have

Instagram/Robinson Russell Lucky the lobster He’s named Lucky and is easily the most famous lobster in North America at the moment. The bizarre almost-albino crustacean was caught off the northern coast of Maine last November but just recently went viral on social media and began his stay at a Canadian aquarium. Canadian fisherman Robinson Russell

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (Reuters) – A master distiller and a crop scientist who specializes in corn breeding are working on a project they hope one day will make whiskey drinkers think of Texas in the same way as lovers of American wine think of California. Seth Murray, a top corn breeder at Texas A&M University,

Sally Ride, America’s first woman astronaut, communicates with ground controllers from the flight deck during the Challenger mission, June 21, 1983. (Photo via Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images). On June 18th, thirty-five years ago, history was made when the first American woman, Dr. Sally Ride, was launched into space on the Challenger space shuttle. What an exciting

ESO/L. Calçada Artist’s impression of a young star surrounded by a protoplanetary disk. There are many unknown properties about protoplanetary disks around Sun-like stars, including the elemental segregation of various types of atoms. Billions of years ago, in some forgotten corner of the Milky Way, a molecular cloud like many others collapsed to form new

Recent research at Tintagel Castle (in Cornwall, England) has uncovered some fascinating finds. In addition to ceramics from what’s now Turkey (and maybe Cyprus) and glassware from the Iberian peninsula, archeologists from English Heritage working at the site have just uncovered a stone from the 7th century CE that seems to contain writing in 3 different languages – a Celtic name,

Welp, this is one of those mornings in which I had zero intentions of writing anything for Forbes. I was just browsing through social media before my workout. However, I saw a Tweet stating that the fog in Atlanta will “burn off” later in the day. This is a very common saying, but it also

GENEVA (Reuters) – Europe’s physics research center CERN launched an upgrade of its Large Hadron Collider (LHC) on Friday, six years after the huge particle accelerator solved an enduring riddle by confirming the existence of the elusive Higgs boson. Staff said the overhaul will boost the “luminosity” of proton-smashing experiments at the LHC, a 27-km

White woman cyborg on blurred background scanning human DNA 3D rendering. (Image: Shutterstock). Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been much talked about in recent times and especially as regards the technology disrupting the jobs market. Some have even suggested it might not be too long before one won’t be able to tell the difference at work between

By Yining Su Israel’s technology sector is attracting all sorts to its shores, including investors from regions that previously conducted little business in the country, panelists said during Mergermarket’s Israel M&A Forum. “It used to be the Microsofts and the Ciscos of this world” that came looking for acquisitions in Israel, “now it’s potentially everyone,”

The two Mars exploration rovers, awaiting final work before launch in 2003 at NASA’s JPL. The identical robotic explorers, Spirit and Opportunity, were able to trek up to 109 yards each Martian day. They found evidence for liquid water among many other things, with Opportunity traveling farther than any autonomous vehicle on any world: over

Shutterstock When toilet paper isn’t enough, some people reach for flushable wipes. These may leave you feeling clean, but they’re a dirty habit. Flushable wipes are only flushable as in “out of sight, out of mind.” They don’t dissolve like toilet paper, end up clogging sewer systems and contribute to huge disgusting blobs known as

In April, NOAA announced that the Earth experienced its 400th consecutive month with temperatures above the 20th Century average. Not surprisingly, the streak moved to 401 in May (data to be released June 18th) and there is no indication the streak will end without a climate catastrophe induced by an asteroid impact, supervolcano, or nuclear war. Ironically,

One of the grand challenges that I find as a climate scientist is conveying to the public the “here and now” of climate change. For many people, it is still some “thing” that seems far off in time or distance from their daily lives of bills, illness, kids, and their jobs. Ironically, climate change touches

In contemporary politics, biblical verses are sometimes used to mobilize supporters or to support policy decisions. Most recently, Attorney General Jeff Sessions cited Romans 13 to justify this administration’s policy of separating the children of asylum seekers from their parents. Later that same day, Pres. Trump’s Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders echoed Attorney General Sessions by pointing

C Bader et al (2018) Science Advances 4 (5) DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aas8652 3D printed image of bundles of nerve fibers (axons) in the brain In many areas of research, scientists need to analyze three dimensional data in a variety of forms, such as medical brain scans, the structures of cells and molecules, geological features on our

Upon hearing NASA’s confirmation that Mars has complex organics, a reader took heart that someday soon we would be colonizing the world next door. But my first thought was why don’t we simply start by cleaning up this one? That is, ridding our oceans of the islands of plastic and our planet’s atmosphere of its

storyblocks Earlier this year, McKinsey proclaimed, “B2B sales are on the verge of a revolution”. The bold statement had a lot of truth to it. Several important trends have made many traditional B2B sales processes and tactics inefficient and ineffective. In order to stay relevant, sales leaders are quickly realizing they need to alter their

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A NASA rover has detected a bonanza of organic compounds on the surface of Mars and seasonal fluctuations of atmospheric methane in findings released on Thursday that mark some of the strongest evidence ever that Earth’s neighbor may have harbored life. But National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientists emphasized there could be

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Fossils of two amphibians that lived within the Antarctic circle 360 million years ago are forcing scientists to rethink the origins of land vertebrates, including where these pioneers first appeared and the climatic conditions that spawned them. Two newly discovered early amphibians Tutusius and Umzantsia that lived about 360 million years ago

OSLO (Reuters) – Plastic waste and toxic chemicals found in remote parts of the Antarctic this year add to evidence that pollution is spreading to the ends of the Earth, environmental group Greenpeace said on Thursday. Microplastics – tiny bits of plastic from the breakdown of everything from shopping bags to car tires – were

(Reuters) – Scientists seeking new ways to fight drug-resistant superbugs have mapped the genomes of more than 3,000 bacteria, including samples of a bug taken from Alexander Fleming’s nose and a dysentery-causing strain from a World War One soldier. A DNA double helix is seen in an undated artist’s illustration released by the National Human

PARIS (Reuters) – The 9-metre long (30 ft) skeleton of a unidentified type of dinosaur, believed to be that of a new species, fetched more than $2.3 million at an auction staged on the first floor of the Eiffel Tower in Paris on Monday. A dinosaur fossil is on display at the Eiffel tower, in

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Scientists have detected another exotic feature on one of the solar system’s most wondrous worlds, a large field of dunes on the surface of the distant, frigid dwarf planet Pluto apparently composed of wind-swept, sand-sized grains of frozen methane. The planet Pluto is pictured in a handout image made up of four

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Scientists have pinpointed three genes that may have played a pivotal role in an important milestone in human evolution: the striking increase in brain size that facilitated cognitive advances that helped define what it means to be human. FILE PHOTO: A doctor holds a human brain in a brain bank in the

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A fossilized skull of a small critter found in Utah underneath a dinosaur foot bone is providing insight into one of the most primitive mammalian groups and has scientists rethinking the timing of the break-up of Earth’s bygone supercontinent Pangaea. The newly identified Cretaceous Period species Cifelliodon wahkarmoosuch, which is estimated to