A landmark US court ruling said that human genes are not up for patent. Merely isolating the gene doesn’t amount to ‘inventing’ it. This is bound to cause major ripples in cancer research in the near future.

A recent hardware malfunction on Kepler has left the space telescope teetering on the verge of being another piece of space junk. It’s not out of the game yet, but definitely it’s in hot water.

NASA has just detected the strongest explosion ever recorded in the Universe. It’s a gigantic gamma ray burst, and not too far away.

Recent experiments peg the value of the proton radius at smaller than what was known earlier. Recent experiments using the muon, a cousin of the electron, give a radically different result. What’s afoot?

There is a tantalising signal of a new particle at a detector called the CDMS. Scientists say that this might be the elusive dark matter particle. Do we finally have a dark matter candidate in our hand? Well, not yet!

The recently released results of the Planck cosmic microwave radiation probe reveal a Universe which is, frankly, just a bit boring. Here’s looking at those results more closely.

Want to see a brain in action – here it is! Watch the firings of the brain of a zebrafish larva, as it is imaged in high resolution for the first time ever. This one is pure epic!

This is the first documented case of a child being cured of HIV. This scientific miracle will surely be followed by a lot of research. The future may be HIV free.

Google honours the man who started it all – Nicolaus Copernicus. Let’s wrap our minds around that idea!

The mechanism of a class of non-coding molecules in the genome previously known to regulate genes has been found.

More than 11,000 elephants have been found to have been killed in Gabon’s National Park in less than 10 years, setting off alarm bells for conservationists across the world.

Patients who previously showed no fear to external stimuli have shown panic attacks when asked to inhale carbon dioxide. This gives interesting insights into fear mechanisms of the brain.

Researchers at MIT have found that molecules can be inserted into living cells more easily, merely by squeezing the cells.

A deadly strain of Ebola virus previously found only in Africa might be circulating in bat populations in Asia.

Analysis of genetic data has revealed a previously unknown wave of migration from India to Australia.