In case you haven’t been keeping up-to-date with the latest news in the biotechnology regulatory system (and how could you not?), the system is under revision. As part of the new Coordinated…

ECHA, the European Chemicals Agency, has released findings from its Committee for Risk Assessment (RAC) which concluded that glyphosate (e.g. Roundup, by the agriculture company Monsanto, though it's…

I think the chances of the SpaceX mission around the Moon going ahead on schedule in 2018 is tiny. But on the remote chance it does, I would not fly on that mission, if you paid me a billion dollars…

This is to mention several interesting articles summarizing the presentations given today at the Neutrino Telescopes conference in Venice:- Gravitational Waves: a New Era in Astrophysics Has…

I think the chances of the SpaceX mission around the Moon going ahead on schedule in 2018 is tiny. But on the remote chance it does happen, I would not fly on that mission, if you paid me a billion…

President Trump says he came to Washington to “drain the swamp,” and now his administration is looking for wasteful programs to cut. A great start would be pulling the plug on numerous federal “…

By using lasers to manipulate a superfluid gas known as a Bose-Einstein condensate, the team was able to coax the condensate into a quantum phase of matter that has a rigid structure — like a solid,…

Metabolism, the set of processes through which we gain energy from food and produce the biomolecules we need in our body's cells, is universal to life. The biochemical pathways that underpin these…

SpaceX doesn’t have the capability yet. In this plan, they are depending on a spacecraft which will have its first flight in 2018, the Dragon 2. That’s because they need to be able to do a re-entry…

SpaceX doesn’t have the capability yet. In this plan, they are depending on a spacecraft which will have its first flight in 2018, the Dragon 2. That’s because they need to be able to do a re-entry…