Frogs have a unique ability to see colour even when it is so dark that humans are not able to see anything at all, a new study has found. Researchers…

When we look at our nails, we see a white portion at the base, what is this? According to the American Academy of Dermatology, there are three parts to a…

Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome (HGPS) is an extremely rare genetic condition that causes premature and accelerated aging. Recently, researchers have been able to generate induced pluripotent stem cells from patients with…

In what Swedish plant scientist Stefan Jansson declares “may be” a historic event, he cultivated, grew, and ate a plant that had its genome edited with CRISPR-Cas9. CRISPR (Clustered regularly…

A team of Graz scientists led by Andreas Winkler from the Institute of Biochemistry at TU Graz, Austria, has set a milestone in the future development of novel red light-…

Why is it that humans cannot tolerate water in their eyes even for a second, but fishes live in water for years? Human Prospective: The outer surface of the human…

NASA’s ‘Europa Clipper’, set for launch in the 2020s, will probe the habitability of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa. When the mission was still in the conceptual phase, it was informally…

They are hypothetical structures that have movement without expending energy. First proposed by Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist Frank Wilczek in 2012, time crystals are structures that appear to have movement…

Alzheimer’s & Alu elements: Duke University scientists in the U.S. have identified a mechanism in the molecular machinery of the cell that could help explain how neurons begin to falter in…

The search for physics beyond the Standard Model which until now has explained all interactions between the elementary particles, is an important area of research. Now, there is evidence that…