Science

Model human embryo, created from stem cells, survives past two weeks
A model human embryo capable of developing past day 14 could revolutionize our understanding of human development.
How years of fighting every wildfire helped fuel the Western megafires of today
The current approach to fire management poses unnecessarily high stakes for forests. Here’s why fighting every fire does more harm than good.
Record-breaking amount of Earth’s mantle drilled out of ocean floor
Scientists aboard the JOIDES Resolution have retrieved “a staggering” amount of mantle rock from below the ocean floor.
DeepMind releases massive protein structure database
Olympic swimmers get speed boost from pool engineers
Lab-grown foie gras eliminates force-feeding
Ancient human’s genome sequenced from DNA in cave dirt
Rarely seen glass octopus caught on film
World’s first lab-grown chocolate made in Switzerland
Disease-resistant pigs may be heading to farms soon
Is DMT the best new treatment for depression?
Anyone can now make mouse-human chimeras
Mouse embryos with beating hearts grown from stem cells