With a cardboard box, a light source, and some filters, roadside clinics can accurately test for tuberculosis.
With a cardboard box, a light source, and some filters, roadside clinics can accurately test for tuberculosis.
Wired for Story, Dreamland, Homo Mysterious, and Vagina
Using scientific information as narrative can be a powerful way to communicate.
Cell culture goes 3-D with devices that better mimic in vivo conditions.
Scientists hope an understanding of nerve fibers responsive only to gentle touch will give insight into the role the sense plays in social bonding.
Stem cells collected from younger donors are more effective for transplantation and regenerative medicine than those from older individuals.
A Bill of Rights amendment reaffirming the right to pray could have negative consequences for the teaching of evolution.
The root system of a tree species is genetically different than the leaves of that individual, potentially modifying scientists’ understanding of evolution.
Fossils from northern Kenya point to a new human species that lived in Africa nearly 2 million years ago.