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Chances are high that the tomb of Ancient Egypt’s boy-king Tutankhamun has passages to a hidden chamber, which may be the last resting place of the lost Queen Nefertiti, experts said on Saturday. There is huge international interest in Nefertiti, who died in the 14th century B.C. and is thought to be Tutankhamun’s stepmother, and …
Source: RTI International Approximately 34 percent of children in the United States do not receive all doses of vaccines recommended by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) by age 2, according to a new study by researchers at RTI Health Solutions, a business unit of RTI International. This is consistent with findings reported by …
by Mindy Weisberger A tropical forest densely packed with 12-foot-tall trees with flared trunks and curved branches of needle leaves — Dr. Seuss would have felt right at home — covered an area near the equator some 380 million years ago. Scientists spotted the fossilized stumps a long way from this location — in Arctic …
by Camila Domonoske Vocal cords are small and complex — and, when badly damaged, they’re difficult to treat. Now, scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have engineered lab-grown vocal cord tissue for the first time. The tissue appears to be functional, the researchers report, although so far it has only been tested outside of an …
CERN Press Office in Geneva, 25 November 2015. After the successful restart of the Large Hadron Collider and its first months of data taking with proton collisions at a new energy frontier, the LHC is moving to a new phase, with the first lead-ion collisions of season 2 at an energy about twice as high …
The Center for Inquiry and the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science are urging the Federal Trade Commission to put an end to false advertising by the manufacturers of homeopathic products. They point to the overwhelming scientific consensus that these pseudoscientific alternative remedies have no effect (other than a placebo effect) on any condition, …
Parents who don’t immunise their children will stop receiving childcare benefits next year but one senator believes welfare for all parents should be stripped back. The federal government’s no-jab-no-pay laws will remove childcare benefits, rebates and the Family Tax Benefit A end-of-year supplement from parents who don’t immunise their children. The changes start on January …
By Rachael Larimore (Slate) Today’s Google Doodle is a lovely animation celebrating the anniversary of the discovery of Lucy, a 3.18-million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis fossil at the Hadar research site in the Afar region of Ethiopia. On Nov. 24, 1974, paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson and a student, Tom Gray, discovered a forearm bone on a walk back …
Editors Note: This story was adapted from an article that originally appeared on the website IBNLive. by Ayushman Jawal There is an iconic and chilling scene in “The Dark Knight” where the Joker tells Batman about his faith in mankind — faith that principles and values go out the window when the pressure is on. …
by Ari Shapiro and Audie Cornish As many as half of all natural history specimens sitting in our museums are mislabeled, according to a team at the University of Oxford and the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh.NPR hears from Zoe Goodwin who is the lead author the study. AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: By the time a …
Last week we asked, “How best can societies in Europe and the rest of the West combat terrorists and the circumstances that helped produce them?” The winner is Franz Von Rintelen Runners-up: Richard01, Willow
US scientists say they have bred a genetically modified (GM) mosquito that can resist malaria infection. If the lab technique works in the field, it could offer a new way of stopping the biting insects from spreading malaria to humans, they say. The scientists put a new “resistance” gene into the mosquito’s own DNA, using …