On April 1, the Trump administration’s effort to slash government funding arrived in Morgantown, W.Va., where federal scientists spent their days studying health and safety threats to American workers. That morning, hundreds of employees at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health were notified that they were being terminated …
For more than a decade, scientists have chased the idea of reviving extinct species, a process sometimes called de-extinction. Now, a company called Colossal Biosciences appears to have done it, or something close, with the dire wolf, a giant, extinct species made famous by the television series “Game of Thrones.” …
For much of her life, Catherine Raven felt worthless. Then she befriended a fox. After growing up in an abusive home where she felt unwanted, Raven moved out at 15, and never quite felt comfortable around other people. In 2003, she was living in a cottage in a remote valley …
Shortly after taking office for the second time, President Trump began making deep cuts to agencies and programs that play critical roles in human health, slashing funding for medical research, halting global health aid and firing scores of workers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But the campaign …
NEW DELHI: In an intriguing piece of research published on April 1st, Mark Popinchalk unveiled which creature holds the record for witnessing the most solar eclipses. Surprisingly, humans are far from leading, with horseshoe crabs taking the crown. Over their species’ existence, horseshoe crabs have observed an astonishing 138 trillion …
Humans have never been considered a source of virus, and human-to-animal transmission of viruses has received far less attention, revealed an analysis of viral genomes by researchers at the University College London. “When animals catch viruses from humans, this can not only harm the animal and potentially pose a …