In A World First, Scientists Made Human Milk Outside of the Breast

Breastfeeding can be complicated for many women. However, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends that infants be exclusively breastfed for about the first 6 months with continued breastfeeding. This is easier said than done as latching issues, fussy babies, discomfort and pain, and inadequate milk supply can often complicate matters.

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NASA Administrator: 'Are we alone? Personally, I don't think we are' - CNN Video

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson tells CNN's Pamela Brown that he has read the classified version of the US intelligence report on the series of UFO sightings by Navy pilots and others, and that he feels that we may not be alone in this galaxy.

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Peculiar parasitic fungi discovered growing out of the rectum of a 50 million-year-old fossilized ant

It is the oldest example of an ant infected by a fungal parasite ever found.

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China’s Zhurang Rover on Mars. After selfie sends an audio clip.

On June 11, 2021, China’s rover on Mars Zhurong sent a selfie. The robot, which landed in May, positioned a wireless camera on the ground and then rolled back a short distance to take the snap.

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Humans are creating hot spots where bats could transmit zoonotic diseases

A new map shows how human actions are affecting outbreak risks, sometimes in surprising places, which could be a valuable tool in preventing the next pandemic.

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Scientists develop wireless pacemaker that dissolves in body

A wireless pacemaker that can dissolve in the body has been created for patients who need only temporary help to regulate their heartbeat. Since the first pacemaker was implanted in 1958, millions of people have benefited from the devices. According to the national audit for cardiac rhythm management, 32,902 pacemakers were implanted for the first time in the UK in the year 2018-19 alone.

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Thousands of physicists are working together to redefine the cosmos

What happened at the beginning of the universe, in the very first moments? The truth is, we don’t really know because it takes huge amounts of energy and precision to recreate and understand the cosmos on such short timescales in the lab.

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Cuba's COVID vaccine rivals BioNTech-Pfizer, Moderna

Cuba's health authorities said this week the domestically produced Abdala vaccine has proven to be 92% effective against the coronavirus in clinical trials. DW takes a closer look.

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Are humans on the brink of achieving immortality?

There's a new field of research taking Silicon Valley by storm: the quest for eternal life. Depending on who you ask, the "life extension" industry is about to change the world forever, or is all just nonsense.

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China Just Announced That It's Sending the First Humans to Mars

China announced an ambitious plans to land humans on Mars by 2033! Its plan is extensive and impressive, but lofty goals don't equate to success.

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The Thorny Ethics of Displaying Egyptian Mummies to the Public

Mummy exhibits are big draws for museums, but curators are grappling with issues of cultural and racial sensitivity.

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The Most Dangerous Idea in Mental Health

The belief that hidden memories can be "recovered" in therapy should have been exorcised years ago, when a rash of false memories dominated the airwaves, tore families apart, and put people on the stand for crimes they didn't commit. But the mental health establishment does not always learn from its mistakes—and families are still paying the price.

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Why the Northwest's "heat dome" is so dangerous

Scorching daytime temperatures aren't the only problem.

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Blood test to detect 50 types of cancer ‘accurate enough to be rolled out’

The test is based on a type of DNA that is shed by tumours into the bloodstream.

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Dinosaurs once flourished near the North Pole

The bones of their young suggest they were permanent residents, not migrants | Science & technology

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Never-before-seen colossal comet on a trek toward the sun

A week after astronomers noticed a new object in the sky, they've identified it as a comet.

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Hubble Trouble: NASA Can't Figure Out What's Causing Computer Issues On The Telescope

"It's just the inefficiency of trying to fix something which is orbiting 400 miles over your head instead of in your laboratory," said Paul Hertz, the director of astrophysics for NASA.

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Mexican and Israeli task forces join search for survivors in Surfside building collapse

"We have hope because that's what our search and rescue team tells us, that they have hope," the Miami-Dade mayor said at a Friday briefing.

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Mars helicopter takes it to the limit with groundbreaking flights

Where are you now, Mars Ingenuity helicopter? While it seems like the little chopper has been quiet, it turns out that Ingenuity has aced more of its flights -- and even got a software update to fix an annoying issue that impacted some of its previous outings.

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Rare Superconductor Discovered – May Be Critical for the Future of Quantum Computing

Research led by Kent and the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory has resulted in the discovery of a new rare topological superconductor, LaPt3P. This discovery may be of huge importance to the future operations of quantum computers. Superconductors are vital materials able to conduct electricity...

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The little-known Soviet mission to rescue a dead space station

How two Cosmonauts battled extreme cold, darkness, and limited resources to save Salyut 7.

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Massive human head in Chinese well forces scientists to rethink evolution

‘Dragon man’ skull reveals new branch of family tree more closely related to modern humans than Neanderthals

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Virgin Galactic receives FAA approval to take passengers into space

Virgin Galactic has received the go ahead from aviation regulators to fly passengers to space. The company announced today that the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) has updated its existing commercial space transportation operator license, which it has held since 2016. Virgin Galactic said the decision makes it the first spaceline to secure permission to fly customers.

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Men are rapidly losing their close friends, poll finds

Bruh

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Scientists able to ‘look back through time’ after major finding about how planets form

New findings allow scientists to effectively peer back through time into the beginnings of other planetary systems after a major new finding.

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Discovery of ‘Dragon Man’ Skull in China May Add Species to Human Family Tree

Scientists on Friday announced that a massive fossilized skull that is at least 140,000 years old is a new species of ancient human. It belonged to a mature male who had a huge brain, massive brow ridges, deep set eyes and a bulbous nose. The skull had remained hidden in an abandoned well for 85 years, after a laborer came across it at a construction site in China.

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A cave nestled in the Russian mountains could solve an ancient human mystery

Scientists discovered that a little-known group of ancient people, the Denisovans, may predate the Neanderthals at a site important to the story of humankind.

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We found more than 54,000 viruses in people's poo — and 92% were previously unknown to science

You could say there are a 'crapload' of viruses in the human gut. Luckily, most of these do not attack our cells, but instead feed on bacteria.

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‘Less water means more gas’: how drought will test California’s stressed power grid

California’s diminishing water supply is cutting down hydropower, causing the state to rely more on fossil fuels

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New way to scan for life signs remotely could help discover alien life

Scanning alien worlds for signs of life is a sci-fi trope up there with faster-than-light travel and setting phasers to stun. But it could become a reality, according to a team of researchers from the University of Bern in Switzerland who have pioneered a technique that uses reflected light to spot living organisms.

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People who have had COVID-19 may require only single dose of two-dose vaccines

People who have previously been infected with COVID-19 may need only one dose of the two-dose mRNA vaccines to achieve maximum protection against the virus, a new UCLA study suggests. But all vaccinated individuals, whether previously infected or not, will likely require booster shots moving forward because antibodies created through both vaccines and natural infection wane at the same relatively rapid rate, the authors say.

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Evidence of an ancient coronavirus outbreak lives on in the genes of people from East Asia

A coronavirus epidemic broke out in East Asia around 25,000 years ago, and the evidence is in our genes. Researchers say the finding could shed light on how to fight COVID-19.

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Drug researchers discover potent class of molecules that kills malaria parasite

Malaria kills around 400,000 people every year, with the vast majority of deaths occurring in children aged under five from the world’s most vulnerable societies.

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People's odds of loneliness could fall by up to half if cities hit 30% green space targets

For the areas of cities with less than 10% green space, increasing that to 30% could cut the overall odds of residents becoming lonely by a quarter.

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For Some Anti-Vaccine Advocates, Misinformation Is Part Of A Business

The coronavirus pandemic has created an opening for vaccine opponents to peddle alternative therapies, unproven cures and website subscriptions.

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Scientists identify 29 planets where aliens could observe Earth

For centuries, Earthlings have gazed at the heavens and wondered about life among the stars. But as humans hunted for little green men, the extraterrestrials might have been watching us back. In new research, astronomers have drawn up a shortlist of nearby star systems where any inquisitive inhabitants on orbiting planets would be well placed to spot life on Earth.

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Helion Energy Achieves 100 Million Degrees Celsius Fusion Fuel Temperature and Confirms 16-Month Continuous Operation of Its Fusion Generator Prototype

Helion Energy (Helion), a clean electricity company committed to creating a new era of clean energy through fusion, today became the first private company to announce exceeding 100 million degrees Celsius in their 6th fusion generator prototype, Trenta.

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The terrible science behind popular weight loss products

BACK IN 2012, daytime TV celebrity Dr. Oz touted the benefits of a miraculous new weight loss solution: green coffee bean extract. He cited a study he claimed proved it. People, he said, didn’t need to change what they ate or how they exercised. They could simply “do whatever they wanted to do” and in the process lose “a pound per week.”

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Growing food with air and solar power: More efficient than planting crops

A team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, the University of Naples Federico II, the Weizmann Institute of Science and the Porter School of the Environment and Earth Sciences has found that making food from air would be far more efficient than growing crops.

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NASA balloon detects California earthquake—next stop, Venus?

Between July 4 and July 6, 2019, a sequence of powerful earthquakes rumbled near Ridgecrest, California, triggering more than 10,000 aftershocks over a six-week period. Seeing an opportunity, researchers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Caltech

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Microbes and solar power ‘could produce 10 times more food than plants’

The system would also have very little impact on the environment, in contrast to livestock farming, scientists say

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American Airlines canceling hundreds of flights through mid-July in part due to labor shortages

American Airlines is canceling hundreds of flights through at least mid-July as the company strives to maintain service in the midst of massively increasing travel demand while the coronavirus pandemic continues to recede in the United States, according to a spokesperson from the airline.

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We investigated whether digital contact tracing actually worked in the US

A year ago, engineers built apps to track potential virus exposure. Our research shows the impact has been mixed—but there's still potential.

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Green space around primary schools may improve students' academic performance

A study showed that, on average, more greenery around primary schools was associated with better NAPLAN scores. Higher exposure to traffic-related pollution was associated with poorer scores.

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Largest Boeing 737 MAX model takes off on maiden flight

Boeing Co's (BA.N) 737 MAX 10, the largest member of its best-selling single-aisle airplane family, took off on its maiden flight on Friday, in a further step toward recovering from the safety grounding of a smaller model.

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Space agencies are learning how to make food on Mars and the moon

As Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos rocket companies lead a new space race, NASA is working on AI and robotics to farm space plants and feed interplanetary humans.

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New technique can measure metabolic process at the single-cell level

Understanding cellular metabolism - how a cell uses energy- could be key to treating a wide array of diseases, including vascular diseases and cancer. While many techniques can measure these processes among tens of thousands of cells, researchers have been unable to measure them at the single-cell level.

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Holography 'quantum leap' could revolutionise imaging

A new type of quantum holography which uses entangled photons to overcome the limitations of conventional holographic approaches could lead to improved medical imaging and speed the advance of quantum information science.

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Spotlight: This Startup Wants To Read Your Mind, Really

Today, we'll be doing something quite rare which is spotlighting a startup. It's rare that we do that, but this is a startup we think is very important to know about. The startup is Kernel, one working on a human brain-machine interface.

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‘Something’s going on’: UFOs threaten national security, US politicians warn

Some members of Congress were given advanced details about Pentagon report, which is scheduled to be released before 25 June

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