Personalized medicine software vulnerability uncovered by Sandia researchers

A weakness in one common open source software for genomic analysis left DNA-based medical diagnostics vulnerable…

Hubble Captures the Galaxy's Biggest Ongoing Stellar Fireworks Show

Imagine slow-motion fireworks that started exploding 170 years ago and are still continuing. This type of…

Eta Carinae (Observations in UV Light Uncover Magnesium Embedded in Warm Gas)

Giant Star Yields New Clues About Turbulent Life This Hubble Space Telescope image of the giant,…

Long-haul flights and Super Rugby performance: what the science says

Super Rugby is arguably the highest expression of rugby at club level in the world. Its…

Mathematical models can predict animals' risk of extinction

Can we predict the extinction of endangered species? In short: yes—and we can achieve this by…

Sixth right whale death in Canadian waters sets researchers on urgent mission for solutions

There is a growing urgency to identify where endangered North Atlantic right whales are migrating, say…

Earth to Mars in 100 days: The power of nuclear rockets

The solar system is a really big place, and it takes forever to travel from world…

Scientists alarmed by bark beetle boom

Bark beetles are currently responsible for killing an unprecedented number of trees in forests across Europe…

Edible insects could be a key ingredient to avoiding a global food crisis, researchers insist

Edible insects could be a key ingredient to avoiding a global food crisis, according to a…

Embracing bioinformatics in gene banks

The preservation of plant biodiversity is the task of the roughly 1,750 gene banks distributed around…