A Long, Naked, Cancer-Free Life
Biologists have discovered a gene that may keep naked mole rats cancer-free, a finding they hope can have implications with humans.
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If Bridges Could Talk …
New monitoring systems should make smart bridges that let on when they're feeling fatigued.
Snagging Free-Range Solar Power in Space Is an Option
Floating solar cells far above Earth and beaming the energy to the grid has shifted from loony to funded.
Paralyzed Mice and M&Ms
A pill or two might be able to prevent future devastating spinal cord injuries from turning into paralysis, suggests new research on mice.
Marvin Mouse vs. the Killer T Cell
A transgenic rodent named for a philanthropic football coach is front and center in the effort to solve the multiple sclerosis whodunit.
Guidance From Above on Food Insecurity
An American-led famine early warning system uses satellite technology to predict where best to stave off future starving in the rest of the world.
Raise Your Hand If You’re Creative. Either Hand.
Creativity is a product of the left and right brain hemispheres working together — an alliance that comes more easily to the ambidextrous.
Colonization 101: The Hunt For Moon Water
The looming LCROSS mission's lunar bomb-run could spur humankind's effort to live on the moon — if it does find reasonable quantities of water.
Scientists Say They Can’t Replicate Pioneering Epigenetic Results
The murky waters of the debate over chemical exposures and health just got murkier. And a bit nastier.
Seeking Chemical Culprits for Those Deformities
Science casting wide net in search of chemicals seen as likely suspects in feminization and reproductive anomalies being spotted worldwide.