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First Gene Therapy Treatment Approved in U.S.
By modifying a person’s own immune cells, the treatment can effectively target leukemia cells
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Astronomers Detect 15 Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts From a Distant Galaxy
The new cosmic blasts may help researchers finally figure out what’s producing the energy in space
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How Getting Fish Hooked on Drugs Could Help Fight Opioid Addiction
Zebra fish and humans have similar pathways of addiction, which may make them ideal test subjects for addiction studies
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The First Syphilis Cure Was the First ‘Magic Bullet’
The term ‘magic bullet’ once just meant a targeted drug
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Colorado Construction Crew Unearths 66-Million-Year-Old Triceratops Fossil
While Thornton’s new Public Safety Facility, the crew happened upon a rare find
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Despite Harvey’s Wrath, This 1,000-Year Old Tree Still Stands Tall
The Big Tree has survived at least 40 hurricanes
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Seabirds Use Their Sense of Smell to Navigate Open Water
A new study suggests shearwaters follow their nose home
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A Triplet of Corpse Flowers Will Soon Release Their Stench in D.C.
If you can’t make it to D.C., you can still catch the action (smell free) via live stream
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Another Danger of the Harvey Flood: Floating Fire Ants
The stinging insects are floating around Texas floodwaters in giant mats
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A Mysterious Chemical Cloud Descended on the British Coast
150 people were treated for stinging eyes, irritated throats and vomiting
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Watch Gentoo Penguins Hunting From a Bird’s Eye View
New footage is helping researchers untangle the meaning behind these tuxedo-clad birds’ calls
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Ancient Babylonian Tablet May Hold Earliest Examples of Trigonometry
If true, it would mean the ancient culture figured out this mathematical field more than a millennia before its known creation
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The Farmboy Who Invented Television
The inventor of television’s career presages many of the good and bad things about Silicon Valley
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In Pakistan, Arsenic-Laced Groundwater Puts 60 Million People at Risk
Most live in the Indus River Valley
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Why Horses and Their Ilk Are the Only One-Toed Animals Still Standing
Early horses had 15 toes, but life on the plains led to a stronger center toe, leading to life on four hooves
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The Father of Modern Chemistry Proved Respiration Occurred by Freezing a Guinea Pig
Where he got the guinea pig from remains a mystery
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Why Amateur Radio Operators Are Watching Hurricane Harvey
Ham radio underwent a resurgence in the United States after Hurricane Katrina
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This Is the Best Image of a Star Beyond Our Solar System (Yet)
A detailed convection map of the red supergiant Antares is spectacular, but it also shows we don’t know everything that’s going on
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Thousands of Invasive Salmon Escape From Farm in Pacific Northwest
Officials are urging fishers to catch the salmon in the waters off Washington
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Could Astronauts Harvest Nutrients From Their Waste?
A new study suggests that modified yeast feeding on human waste can make useful byproducts for long missions in space
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