Only 10 viral particles cause H5N1 avian flu infection in cows. Scientists have discovered that as few as ten particles of the H5N1 bird flu virus are sufficient to cause infection in dairy cows, a ...

Just 10 viral particles of the H5N1 bird flu that caused hundreds of influenza outbreaks in U.S. dairy cattle can cause infection in cows, a new study shows. The research also hints at why the ...

Every time I write about particle physics, I encounter a moment of uncertainty about a quantity that, at first glance, ought to be clear. How many kinds of elementary particles should I say there are?

Scientists use 3D-printed eggs to help bring back extinct birds A Texas company has hatched live baby chickens from 3D-printed artificial eggs with titanium lattice shells and bio-engineered silicone ...

A chicken embryo growing inside the 3D-printed shell made by Colossal. A Dallas-based company announced Tuesday it hatched baby chicks from a 3D-printed silicone shell — and it wants to use that ...

Stardust Solutions says its tiny spheres can reflect the sun’s rays without harming people or the environment. Critics say private companies have no business altering Earth’s atmosphere. An enclosed ...

Every Wednesday and Friday, TechNode’s Briefing newsletter delivers a roundup of the most important news in China tech, straight to your inbox. Sign up In the previous episode, we looked at how Bhout ...

As ancient, hollowed trees disappear in England, one researcher and his team are engineering prosthetic nests to provide an alternative home for endangered birds. Filipe Salbany, conservation lead at ...

When you drill down into the very fabric of reality—where elementary particles make up the matter that is you and me and everything around us in three-dimensional space—things get divided nicely into ...

Scientists discovered “magic” top quarks at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, demonstrating how the facility has evolved to support quantum computing research. Researchers at ATLAS observed ...

In a rare global collaboration, scientists from Japan and the United States joined forces to explore one of the universe’s deepest mysteries — why anything exists at all. By combining years of data ...

A UnityPoint Health LifeFlight helicopter hit a bird just after takeoff while transporting a patient Monday morning, but no one was hurt. UnityPoint told KCCI the pilot followed protocol and returned ...