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Policy ForumCancer Research Mingyang Song1,2, Bert Vogelstein3, Edward L. Giovannucci1,4, Walter C. Willett1,4, Cristian Tomasetti5,6 1Departments of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA. 2Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit and Division of Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. […]

To rapidly detect the presence of E. coli in drinking water, Cornell University food scientists now can employ a bacteriophage — a genetically engineered virus — in a test used in hard-to-reach areas around the world. Rather than sending water samples to laboratories and waiting days for results, this new […]

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Jennifer Sills Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Museum of Vertebrates, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA. Kelly R. Zamudio Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Museum of Vertebrates, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA. Alexander Kellner Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, […]

In a bid to ease a history of mistrust, a summer workshop trains Indigenous scientists in genomics. In 2010, members of the Havasupai Tribe look at DNA samples taken years before in an episode that fueled mistrust. PHOTO: JIM WILSON/THE NEW YORK TIMES/ REDUX When Ripan Malhi started graduate school […]

Spoilers ahead for previous seasons of The Man in the High Castle. Science fiction often challenges social and political issues that might be hard to tackle in different genres, so it’s ironic that the closer Amazon’s The Man in the High Castle gets to traditional science fiction, the less relevant […]

By Johanna Marie Updated September 28, 2018 06:28:12 Photo: The crab spider has been declared the “most beautiful” of the 37 new species. (Supplied: Robert Whyte) Dozens of new creepy crawlies have been discovered on Queensland’s Cooloola Coast in the space of one weekend, and scientists believe there are many […]

They live in chatty groups, and can hunt in teams—sometimes working in tandem to create waves that dump unlucky prey off floating ice. Savvy orcas, with their splotchy two-tone flesh and rich family lives, have survived mass slaughter, being captured with nets and lassos, and being trucked and airlifted to […]