The future of solar cells – small and flexible enough to be put on your roof as shingles.

Using proteins instead of genes, scientists have now been able to reprogram skin cells in to more embryonic-like cells.

Big day for some scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine and UC-San Francisco who have managed to succeed in isolating stem cells from human testes. That means, they can differentiate into each of the three main types of tissues of the body.

According to the study, the testes stem cells have different patterns of [...]

Marine archaeologists have found the remains of a slave ship wrecked off the Turks and Caicos Islands in 1841, an accident that set free the ancestors of many current residents of those islands. Some 192 Africans survived the sinking of the Spanish ship Trouvadore off the British-ruled islands, where the slave trade was banned.

Over the [...]

Despite broad “dolphin safe” practices, fishing activities have continued to restrict the growth of at least one Pacific Ocean dolphin population, a new report led by a researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego has concluded.
Populations of dolphins in the Eastern Pacific were expected to increase in abundance after successful regulations and [...]