Ray Kurzweil, a prominent futurist and inventor, has put forward a provocative forecast: by 2029 humanity could reach what he ...

Using Nasa ’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, Professor Tomonori Totani from the Department of Astronomy at the University of Tokyo gathered what he claims is the first direct evidence of the ...

With 3I/ATLAS set to fly by Earth in two weeks, professor Avi Loeb is debating whether our interstellar visitor is friend or ...

The yet-to-be-peer-reviewed findings indicate that comet 3I/ATLAS shares similarities with the icy trans-Neptunian objects — ...

A NASA planetary scientist has proposed what may be the first scientifically sound explanation for the mysterious Star of Bethlehem that guided the three wise men to the infant Jesus over two ...

Though there were setbacks on climate change and funding for science this year, there was still plenty of amazing discoveries ...

The Chinese geneticist who shocked the world in 2018 by announcing the creation of the first gene-edited babies is back after a prison stint and working on a cure for a debilitating genetic disease.

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Garrett Andrews is an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Political Science at Portland Community College where he teaches State and Local Government. With five years of experience as a writer ...

Luc Montagnier, the scientist who discovered the virus that causes AIDS, has died at 89. His key contribution came at a time when AIDS was mysterious and uniformly deadly. The scientist who discovered ...