October 21, 2015 Swiss scientists say Arafat was poisoned with polonium Scientists at Switzerland's Institute of Radiation Physics said Thursday they've found evidence that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was deliberately poisoned with polonium though they don't know if it ultimately killed him.
October 21, 2015 What's missing from the Nobel Prizes? Scientists weigh in The Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel established the Nobel prizes more than 100 years ago, in 1895, with the following prize categories: physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, and peace.
October 21, 2015 2013 'Golden Goose' awards honor strange science Politicians have their pick of strange-sounding studies when they want to call for cuts to science spending
October 21, 2015 A report about reports about reports? Yep, at this year’s Ig Nobel awards A U.S. government agency has earned a literature prize for issuing a report about reports about reports -- and concluding that a new report ought to be prepared to sum it all up.
October 21, 2015 'The Next MacGyver' competition aims to encourage more women to pursue STEM Back when she was growing up, Veronica Eliasson used to be rooted in front of her family’s television watching “MacGyver” with her younger brother. The long-running action-adventure series followed the exploits of an American secret agent who came up with inventive solutions to difficult problems by engineering tools out of everyday things. Think objects like duct tape, for instance. The show had worldwide appeal, and for the young Eliasson, whose father always told her she should become an engineer, it opened her eyes to the fact that science could be fun — and exciting.
October 21, 2015 Lego releases first female scientist Wearing glasses and a lab coat, and holding out two Erlenmeyer flasks, Professor C. Bodin (as her nametag reads) is Lego's first female scientist.
October 21, 2015 Scientists make world's smallest Mona Lisa The world’s most famous smile is now the world’s smallest.
October 21, 2015 Lost Apollo 11 moon dust found in storage Vials of moon dust brought back to Earth by the first men on the moon have been found inside a lab warehouse in California after sitting in storage unnoticed for more than 40 years.
October 20, 2015 Your DNA can store information from a million CDs, researchers say It can store the information from a million CDs in a space no bigger than your little finger, and could keep it safe for centuries.
October 20, 2015 Magic mushrooms create a hyperconnected brain Magic mushrooms may give users trippy experiences by creating a hyperconnected brain.
