Science

In recent months, although our focus has been on the coronavirus outbreak, there has been a great deal of scientific progress in treating diseases that cause blindness. Researchers at US-based Editas Medicine and Ireland-based Allergan have administered CRISPR for the first time to a person with a genetic disease. This …

What do 10 years mean for our 4.6 billion years? Sun? Probably as much as the last millionth of a second meant to you. Still, every decade our old sun burns is a decade of turbulent, sometimes violent change, a fact that becomes wonderfully evident in a new time-lapse video …

We may never know why a Stone Age man’s skull ended in a Stake in a mysterious underwater grave 8,000 years agoBut thanks to a new facial reconstruction, we can see what it probably looked like before he died. Archaeologists discovered the man’s skull, as well as the remains of …

Astronomers using Hubble previously captured a remarkable image of the invisible disk of a young star forming a planet casting a huge shadow through a more distant cloud in a star-forming region. The star is called HBC 672, and the shadow feature was nicknamed “Bat Shadow” because it resembles a …

Artist’s impression of the quasar Pōniuāʻena, the first quasar to receive an indigenous Hawaiian name. Credit: International Gemini Observatory / NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / P. Marenfeld Astronomers have discovered the most massive quasar known in the early universe, containing a monstrous black hole with a mass equivalent to …