science

A 40-year-old man whose legs are paralyzed can now climbs and walk following implants in his brain and spinal cord that pair with external devices.

NBC10 First Alert Weather meteorologist Marvin Gomez explains that a geomagnetic storm made the so-called “northern lights” visible in the Philadelphia region.

A solar storm triggered the outburst of auroras in at least 30 states.

Scientists announced the birth of a cloned Przewalski’s horse, born from a cell line frozen for 40 years at the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance Biodiversity Bank’s Frozen Zoo.

Scientists have created baby mice with two fathers for the first time by turning male mouse stem cells into female cells in a lab.

With more lunar missions than ever on the horizon, the European Space Agency wants to give the moon its own time zone. This week, the agency said space organizations around the world are considering how best to keep time on the moon. The idea came up during a meeting in the Netherlands late last year, with participants agreeing on the...

Astronomers have discovered what appear to be massive galaxies dating back to within 600 million years of the Big Bang.

For more than a year, the fate of the Federal Helium Reserve, one of the world’s largest and most dependable suppliers of helium, has been uncertain. 

The earthquake was widely felt, but no major damage was reported.

A company working on technologies to bring back extinct species has attracted more investors.

A 9-year-old made a jaw-dropping discovery at Calvert Cliffs State Park in Maryland.

Nine-year-old Molly Sampson added something new to her collection of over 400 fossils on Christmas Day: a five-inch, 15-million-year-old megalodon tooth.

Scientists are transforming pig livers to look and act like human ones, part of a quest to ease the nation’s organ shortage.

A species of glass frogs found in South and Central America has the rare ability to turn on and off its transparent appearance.

The significant advance in technology has been decades in the making.

Manuscripts and documents from Darwin, who was the first to theorize evolution, are considered rarities because Darwin was known to revise many of his writings and often times threw out or reused outdated writings as scraps.

Strange as it sounds, the lighter-than-air element that gives balloons their buoyancy also powers the vital medical diagnostic machines. An MRI can’t function without some 2,000 liters of ultra-cold liquid helium keeping its magnets cool enough to work.

Seven years ago, researchers at Stanford University started an ambitious experiment: They began growing miniature, simplified versions of the human brain from stem cells inside a lab, then later injected that tissue into the brains of newborn rats.