Self Help
Hasslers: How Difficult People Drain Time From Your Life
[ad_1] Difficult people don’t just drain your patience – they may also affect your health. New research on “hasslers” shows how persistent negative social…
Tag: Biology
Technology
Genetic analysis reveals new details on ancient human and Neanderthal couplings
[ad_1] NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas…
Business
As billionaires chase immortality, this startup cofounded by a Harvard genetics professor gets FDA approval for the first partial de-aging human trial | Fortune
[ad_1] A startup cofounded by a renowned Harvard geneticist has taken a step toward cracking the human body’s biological breakdown by securing FDA approval…
Education
34 Ocean Activities, Experiments, and Crafts for Kids To Dive Into
[ad_1] Have you ever watched as a child stares into an aquarium with awe? Whether it’s the song “Baby Beluga” or the movie Finding…
Gadgets
How Genes Have Harnessed Physics to Grow Living Things
[ad_1] The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Sip a glass of wine, and you will notice liquid continuously weeping down…
Technology
James Watson, co-discoverer of the double-helix shape of DNA, has died at age 97
[ad_1] James D. Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped light the long fuse on a revolution in medicine,…
Technology
James Watson helped crack DNA’s code, sparking medical advances and ethical debates
[ad_1] On a foggy Saturday morning in 1953, a tall, skinny 24-year-old man fiddled with shapes he had cut out of cardboard. They represented…
Boston, Massachusetts Local News
Zuckerberg, Chan shift bulk of philanthropy to science, focusing on AI and biology to curb disease
[ad_1] By BARBARA ORTUTAY REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (AP) — For the past decade, Dr. Priscilla Chan and her husband Mark Zuckerberg have focused part…
Gadgets
Don’t Let the Fuzzy Rats Win: Tips from a Squirrel Hater Who’s Seen It All
[ad_1] Squirrels: Are they just rats with better PR? Be advised that this is not safe reading material for squirrel lovers, or even squirrel…
Gadgets
Jona Health’s Mail-Order Kit Helps You Decode Your Microbiome
[ad_1] Look, there’s nothing quite like starting your day by pooping on a little paper hammock affixed to your toilet seat and then poking…
World News
Trio Wins Nobel Prize in Medicine for Discoveries on Immune System
[ad_1] Immunologists Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries that spurred the…
Gadgets
What Is Thirst?
[ad_1] “There are only a couple of things that are so important for your body that there’s a completely innate drive to get it…
Gadgets
Hungry Worms Could Help Solve Plastic Pollution
[ad_1] Plastics that support modern life are inexpensive, strong, and versatile, but are difficult to dispose of and have a serious impact when released…
Gadgets
These Newly Discovered Cells Breathe in Two Ways
[ad_1] The team members went through a process of incrementally determining what elements and molecules the bacterial strain could grow on. They already knew…
Gadgets
What It’s Like Watching Dozens of Bodies Decompose (for Science)
[ad_1] Somewhere out in the countryside, hidden behind a copse of trees, are fields full of dead human bodies. These corpses have been strategically…
Orlando, Florida Local News
Florida researchers capture Burmese python swallowing grown deer whole
[ad_1] According to a new study published in the journal Reptiles and Amphibians, Burmese pythons can consume prey even larger than scientists realized.See the…
Gadgets
A Neuralink Rival Says Its Eye Implant Restored Vision in Blind People
[ad_1] One of these, called the Argus II, was approved for commercial use in Europe in 2011 and in the US in 2013. That…
Gadgets
This App Set Out to Fight Pesticides. After VCs Stepped In, Now It Helps Sell Them
[ad_1] “Growth, growth, fast growth,” Strey says of what investors were after. “You burn money to grow.” Before its introduction to venture capital, the…
Gadgets
‘Absolution’ Excerpt: Read the Beginning of Jeff VanderMeer’s Newest Southern Reach Book
[ad_1] But then, too, there was the assurance, the confidence, in the accounts of the biologists as remedy to allay suspicion. Because Sergeant Rocker,…
Gadgets
How Cells Resist the Pressure of the Deep Sea
[ad_1] To study the cell membranes of deep-sea animals, the biochemist Itay Budin (center) joined forces with marine biologists Steve Haddock (right) and Jacob…