Stories by Charles Choi

New qubit designs could enable more robust machines

Decades after scientists decided that the famed dinosaur never actually existed, new research says the opposite

Scientists show that male genes linked to taste may play a role in sperm production

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter used radar to find the underground Martian channels

Skull deformation of children was a common practice in Central America, but scientists are still struggling to solve the mystery of why these otherwise healthy youth died prematurely

Possible methods to move the massive Costa Concordia, twice as big as the Titanic, include multiple cranes, inflatable bags and even buoyant objects like ping-pong balls used by Donald Duck

Scientists are sending in unmanned aircraft to survey remote ares

Scientists investigated several bacterium species and found that they not only could thrive on Mars- and moonlike rocks, but could extract elements useful to future extraterrestrial colonists

A newly developed broad-spectrum laser mounted on choppers could effectively dazzle shoulder-launched antiaircraft weapons in flight, and prevent them from finding and destroying their targets

First drug from transgenic goats nears approval

Cosmic Radiation -- Smoking and Genes -- Shrubs 1, Grasses 0 -- Corona Heat

After the U.S. Supreme Court ruling, how stiff will greenhouse gas regulations be?

Ink-jet printing at ramjet speed

You might not want to do it, but removing half of your brain will not significantly impact who you are

A nuclear war may not trouble them, but does decapitation?

Potential replacement for Vioxx combines the powers of nitroglycerin with those of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs

The world's first preventative vaccine against Hepatitis C could curb the spread of the disease that killed Allen Ginsberg and thousands of others

Immunizing the body against nicotine might be just what smokers need to quit for good

First a Nobel Prize, and now a potentially viable treatment: the world's first interfering RNA drug could be the first of many

Inhalable insulin could help diabetics regulate blood sugar to an unprecedented degree

A disease afflicting half a million people annually requires a special kind of vaccine

New vaccine against the deadliest of all cancers teaches the body to defend itself while avoiding the side effects of more traditional therapies

Killing more than two million people, mostly children, every year, this disease will finally face the first ever commercially available vaccine designed to fight it

Preventing the half-million cases of mother to child transmission of HIV every year would go a long way to turning the tide of an epidemic