The Solar System's birth was far from peaceful. Witness the spectacular explosion known as the "Big Bang".Naked Science: Birth of the Solar System ...

In this edition of "Tapestry: The Faces of AIDS," we presents Oncology Pharmacist David King. In his up close and personal interview, David King describes how he found out his HIV status four years ago, even though he believes he was infected in the early stages of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980's. H...

Astronomers have found the earliest stars in the universe After picking up faint signals from the earliest hydrogen gas ever detected, astronomers have found evidence of the very first stars in the Universe, according to a new study published in the journal Nature. The findings have also unexpectedl

Dr. Eric Topol, director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute, chief academic officer of San Diego-based Scripps Health and digital health's rock star, was featured Jan. 25 on NBC's Rock Center with Brian Williams. In this interview with NBC's Dr. Nancy Snyderman, he showed off a number of...

Researchers from Tel Aviv University have identified a new type of early human at the Nesher Ramla site, dated to 140,000 to 120,000 years ago. Headed by Prof. Israel Hershkovitz, Dr. Hila May and Dr. Rachel Sarig from the Sackler Faculty of Medicine and the Dan David Center for Human Evolution and...

In 1993, researchers discovered a stretch of DNA on the X chromosome they believed to be linked to male homosexuality. After studying the DNA of nearly half a million people with varying sexual experiences, the researchers found no evidence of a single “gay gene.” There was some genetic associatio

“Every place you step, there’s 10,000 bacteria, most of which we've never seen,” said Brady, an associate professor at Rockefeller University in New York. Many of these bacteria behave in ways that aren't yet understood and produce molecules that haven't been seen before. He and his colleagues repor

Alan Turing is most widely known for his critical involvement in the codebreaking at Bletchley Park during the Second World War. But Alan Turing was not just a codebreaker.
Watch this short film and learn how Alan Turing broke codes in both his work and society. Codebreaker is an exhibition develop...

Brian Randolph Greene is an American theoretical physicist and string theorist. He has been a professor at Columbia University since 1996 and chairman of the World Science Festival since co-founding it in 2008. He stopped by The Late Night Show with Stephen Colbert to demonstrate an exciting new sci...

This edition of the World AIDS Museum series: Tapestry: The Faces of AIDS," profiles Dr. Bob Wallace. Dr Wallace is a General Practitioner who has been dealing with the AIDS epidemic since the first cases of Kaposi Sarcoma in St Petersburg, Florida in the early 1980's. In his up close and personal i...