June 21, 2018

Genetically modified pigs resistant to deadly disease are now a thing

There’s a virus called PRRS that’s every pig farmer’s nightmare – it attacks young pigs and is estimated to cost

Koko, the gorilla who could ‘talk’ with sign language, has died aged 46

A western lowlands gorilla named Koko, famous for having learned a simplified form of American Sign Language (ASL), died in

Here’s what NASA plans to do to keep us safe from asteroids

We don’t actually have a lot to be afraid of when it comes to asteroids. Sure, they might come pretty

Future aliens will have to hunt foreign stars in their struggle for survival

During the 1930s, astronomers came to realize that the Universe is in a state of expansion. By the 1990s, they

T. rex may have been terrifying, but it couldn’t even stick out its tongue

If you ever find yourself staring directly into the jagged, gaping jaws of a hungry Tyrannosaurus rex, take a moment

IT’S OFFICIAL: General relativity was just tested on galactic scales, proving Einstein right again

The curvature of empty space caused by an entire galaxy has now been pinned down with unprecedented precision, demonstrating Einstein’s

Physicists Want to Mix Time Crystals And Majorana Fermions to Make a Quantum Computer

By making a strange kind of particle that is its own antiparticle out of a time crystal, physicists aim to

A bear broke into a home to look for candy, and it wasn’t even the first time

This is what it looks like when a bear breaks into your home to steal M&M’s while you’re out. And

Endangered eels are getting high on cocaine pollution, and it’s actually not funny

The presence of illicit drugs and their metabolites in river water is a new and growing type of environmental hazard

An astronomer took a stunning photo of our galaxy in a crystal ball, and we can’t deal

A stunning new photo of the Milky Way came about because of a flea-market purchase, a late night on a

A newly discovered species has been named after President Obama’s ear

Recent actions by the Trump administration – a wave of unprecedentedly large family separations at the border, aggressive trade-war-fueling tariffs