Category: 7. SciTech

NEW YORK (AP) – A biotech company that aims to resurrect lost creatures said Tuesday it has hatched live chicks in an artificial environment – a development that was met with mixed reviews from scientists and critics of its de-extinction mission.

Twenty-six baby chickens – ranging from…

More than 20 years ago, four female beluga whales were kept together at the New York Aquarium of the Wildlife Conservation Society.

Three of these belugas (Delphinapterus leucas) – Kathy, Marina, and Natasha – were captured from the wild, and the fourth, Maris, was born to Natasha at the…

The hantavirus outbreak aboard the MV Hondius cruise ship has created a global public health crisis. But the driver of it is a rodent that weighs about an ounce, and climate shifts this year that have helped increase the odds of transmission.

Across the Southern Cone, researchers have long…

As an Ebola outbreak rages in central and East Africa, public health workers say that the response has been stymied by the Trump administration’s cuts to foreign aid and global health organizations.

“We are no longer able to get some supplies,” Amadou Bocoum, Democratic Republic of Congo…

Long before humans smacked “delete” to obliterate typos, we fixed mistakes and revised written language the old-fashioned way:…