NASA has selected nine companies to perform initial studies of how commercial services can be applied to enable science missions to Mars. The U.S. companies will perform a total of 12 concept studies, ...
In a landmark case on genetic testing, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that human DNA cannot be patented. The case of Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics (2013) challenged a patent ...
One of the more controversial studies we reported on this year on Quirks & Quarks was about the latest science on the health risks of eating red and processed meat. The study raised strong objections ...