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According to a group of researchers, people in crowds subconsciously calculate and predict when they are likely to collide with other people. Read on for more details. 

An epidemic that started a year ago called Sea Star Wasting Disease (SSWD) has killed thousands of Northeast Pacific Coast sea stars. Read on to find out the causative factor behind this. 

Cancer researcher and physician Jeffrey Engelman of the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston has found a promising way of treating drug-resistant cancer by growing patients’ tumor cells and testing various drug combinations on them to find a way of effective treatment. Read on to find out more. 

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Philae spacecraft created history when it landed on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The spacecraft began its journey to the comet 10 years back. Read on to find out more. 

A professor of biotechnology and bioengineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology has created a device that contains light-inducible transgenes that respond to light of a specific wavelength and produce proteins or chemical signals within cell implants. Read on to find out how this novel device works. 

The blood-barrier consists of a layer of cells that line the inner surface of the capillaries that regulate the passage of nutrients and waste in and out of the central nervous system. A team of researchers has developed a way of delivering medicines to the brain by bypassing the blood-brain barrier. Read on to find out more.

A group of scientists was successful in creating small stomachs, also called 'gastric organoids,' from stem cells. Read on to find out how this creation works. 

Do adult ferns get to decide the sex of the younger ferns? Makoto Matsuoka, a molecular biologist at Nagoya University in Japan, led a study of Japanese climbing ferns and found out that these ferns communicate across generations and select the gender of the younger ferns. Read on to find out more. 

A group of astronomers has analyzed telescope data collected over 12 years and found a signal that could be the first ever detection of dark matter. The dark matter supposedly comprises 85% of all the matter in the universe, and although it exerts its force on stars, scientists have not been able to detect it conclusively. Read on to find out more.

A study conducted by a researcher suggests that the lifespan of a person is partly determined by the mitochondrial mutations he/she may inherit from the mother. These mutations can shorten the lifespan of a person by a third. Read on to find out more.