Stonehenge is one of the most enduringly fascinating relics of prehistory. The air of mystery that surrounds its origin and purpose is irresistible. Countless theories…
“Information wants to be free.” This is the motto of the Internet. At this moment I can go to one of several shady websites and…
The child was born in rural Mississippi in July of 2010. The mother was infected with HIV, a fact that the doctors were unaware of…
Last week a new program aimed at reducing illegal downloads of copyrighted materials took effect in the U.S. Conceived in 2011, the Copyright Alert System…
Two new sets of guidelines dealing with potentially dangerous biological research have just been published in the U.S. These guidelines follow the publication of a…
n 2009 four Swedish men—Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, and Carl Lundström—were sentenced to a year in jail and fined US $4.5 million….
English scientists, archaeologists, and historians have confirmed that the skeleton discovered beneath a parking lot in Leicester is that of Richard III, the last king…
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the death of the seminal evolutionary biologist Alfred Russel Wallace. According to the Natural History Museum in London,…
Scientists at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) have developed a new method of encoding information into DNA that could turn the blueprint of life into…
Over 140 United Nations member states agreed to a treaty to reduce mercury emissions on Geneva. The treaty has been under negotiation for four years….