NASA’s figures indicate the cost of designing, building and flying the new Crew Exploration Vehicle — the spacecraft NASA is developing to supersede its aging shuttle fleet — to the moon would total $24 billion. This is significantly less than original estimates, but still quite expensive.

It is not often that the audience at a scientific meeting gasps in amazement during a talk. But that is what happened recently when researchers revealed that they had deleted huge chunks of the genome of mice without it making any discernable difference to the animals.

Welcome to the electronic ICU, where bedside manner means ringing a doorbell before observing patients via video camera, then checking vital signs on four remotely located monitors.

All too often, we accept the future of the mind as a singular vision painted for us by others. But here in Denver, you have the opportunity to view the “Mona Lisa” of brain models.

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, in collaboration with researchers at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the United Kingdom and Tohoku University in Japan, have discovered evidence supporting a possible mechanism for high-temperature superconductivity that had previously appeared incompatible with certain experimental observations.

In a region of DNA long considered a genetic wasteland, Harvard Medical School researchers have discovered a new class of gene.

A protein has been discovered that controls the body’s fat storage and could provide the basis for new weight-loss treatments.