Category: 9. Sci/Tech

A nuclear power plant in northern France hit by a jellyfish invasion was getting back online on Wednesday, operator EDF said, with service restored at the first of four closed reactors.

The Gravelines facility near Dunkirk on the French coast…

The period between 3 million and 2 million years ago was a transformative time in human history — it was back then that the genus Australopithecus led to the genus Homo, a new branch in the hominin family tree. But Australopithecus didn’t…

A collection of 300 unusually bright objects in deep space may contain galaxies that formed in the early universe. These objects, captured in infrared images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), have opened up a fresh cosmic mystery that…

Key Takeaways on Invisible Mice

• Invisible mice do exist from recent research that used a type of dye from the chip Doritos to create a transparency effect that lasted about 10 to 20 minutes.
• Research on transparent mice can help us learn more about…

Monday mornings always seem to come way too fast, especially if you spent most of the weekend staying up way too late, perhaps drinking alcohol or smoking. While it’s relatively common for people to stay up late on the weekends, foregoing sleep…

One of the targeted recipients, Tiba Biotech, had a $750,000 contract with BARDA that was slated to end October 30. The company was developing an RNAi-based therapeutic for H1N1 influenza, also known as swine flu. RNAi is short for RNA…