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Recreation of horsepox vaccine sparks public outcry

The paper’s publication in an open-source journal could potentially further the threat of a smallpox outbreak via a bioterrorist attack.

New center headquartered at CMU will build smarter networks to connect edge devices to the cloud

Computing on Network Infrastructure for Pervasive Perception, Cognition, and Action (CONIX) is a $27.5 million initiative by the Semiconductor Research...

Courtesy of Didier Descouens via Wikimedia Commons Replica of the skull of the hominin specimen known as Toumaï. Toumaï was discovered in Chad in 2001 by French anthropologists.

Secret hominin femur still an anthropological mystery

It’s impossible for anthropologists to be certain whether Sahelanthropus walked upright, because no Sahelanthropus leg bones have ever been discovered. Or have they?

Over two tons of land debris was collected from Laysan and Lisianski islands as a part of the multi-agency removal effort coordinated by the NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center for the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument. Plastic waste forms a huge part of the debris collected and it irreparably harms the coral reef and marine life in these ecosystems.

SciTech Briefs

This week scientists discover 10 new defense mechanisms used by bacteria, ways to clone primates using the same technique that was used to clone Dolly and that plastic hastens coral reef disease.

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