In its continued assault on science, the Trump Administration has issued a request for extensive budget cuts to be made to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, calling for Congress to eviscerate the science programs of NASA by half, and NOAA’s by three-quarters.read more
The biotech company that aims to perform a Jurassic Park-like resurrection of the woolly mammoth has announced that they have re-created the previously-extinct dire wolf, in what the company is calling the world’s first “de-extinction” of a species that disappeared nearly 10,000 years ago. Although the animals are being presentedread more
Defying expectations, solar activity is back in a big way, with the number of sunspots counted on the Sun’s surface last month reaching levels not seen in nearly 23 years, more than twice the number predicted by previous forecasts. This newfound activity signals not only that the Sun is wellread more
A key component of space travel in science fiction has taken a major step to becoming reality with an experiment that has successfully induced suspended hibernation in lab rodents. Instead of using potentially dangerous methods such as chemically-induced sleep or freezing the subjects, the technique involved uses ultrasound to lullread more