Members of Henrietta Lacks’s family walk with attorney Ben Crump (centre) ahead of announcing their lawsuit against Thermo Fisher Scientific in 2021.Credit: Amy...
ByAfeeraAugust 3, 2023On a warm day in March, ecologist Valeria Souza went into a temazcal, or sweat lodge, in Texcoco, Mexico, to pray for the...
ByAfeeraJuly 31, 2023A giant chromosome from the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, which has been bioengineered to reproduce asexually.Credit: Robert Markus/SPL For the first time, scientists...
ByAfeeraJuly 28, 2023The sculpture of Alan Turning at Bletchley Park, UK. It is 73 years since Turing proposed an ‘imitation’ game as a test of...
ByAfeeraJuly 25, 2023A slice through the brain of a person with Alzheimer’s disease, the most common cause of dementia.Credit: Anatomical Travelogue/Science Photo Library A study...
ByAfeeraJuly 22, 2023King, M. C. & Wilson, A. C. Evolution at two levels in humans and chimpanzees. Science 188, 107–116 (1975). Article ADS CAS PubMed ...
ByAfeeraJuly 19, 2023India launched Chandrayaan-3, its third lunar mission, on 14 July. The goal is to become the fourth country to achieve a controlled landing...
ByAfeeraJuly 16, 2023An excavating machine on the Japanese research vessel Hakurei collected cobalt-rich ocean sediments in a 2020 test run.Credit: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg via Getty Commercial...
ByAfeeraJuly 15, 2023Aspartame is used to sweeten thousands of food and drink products.Credit: BSIP SA/Alamy The cancer-research arm of the World Health Organization (WHO) has...
ByAfeeraJuly 14, 2023ChatGPT allowed study participants to finish a writing assignment faster than participants who did not have access to the tool.Credit: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg via...
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