On Thursday, September 18, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) met to vote on possible changes to its recommendations to the US Centers for
If you’ve never had sex, your genetics could be partly responsible – but not as much as your physical characteristics, location, and behavior. That’s the
There’s a strange phenomenon reported among some recipients of organ transplants whereby people report altered memories, tastes, and personality changes. A particularly curious example included
This week, scientists digging in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert have discovered a new species of pachycephalosaur that pushes back their emergence by 15 million years. We
They say music is the language of the soul, which is fitting given a pivotal soundtrack of classical music once saved the souls of roughly 2,000 beluga whales in
The 35th Ig Nobel prizes honor (or dishonor) research on the pizza preferences of lizards, the effect of garlic consumption on breast milk, and Teflon’s
Most people consider the Italian polymath Galileo Galilei to be the father of telescopic astronomy, although a lesser-known English physicist named Thomas Harriot may actually
For every job, there is an appropriate tool. If you want to weigh yourself, you hop on the bathroom scales; if you’re looking to measure
On Thursday, September 18, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) – which advises the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on vaccines
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Class is back in session for another year, and that means new stationery, pumpkin spice everything in stores, and – albeit less welcome – the
Star Wars has reached the deep sea as a new-to-science species has been named in honor of Chewbacca, everyone’s favourite Wookiee. A type of coral,
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Half of the wildebeests in the Serengeti are seemingly “missing” in the latest survey of the region. An AI-driven model has unexpectedly shown there are
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In a major breakthrough for pregnancy research, scientists have 3D bioprinted “mini placentas”. The miniature organs, or “organoids”, closely resemble human placental tissue, providing an
