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Dr. Thomas Rea, the man who removed the sigma of leprosy from society by devising an ultimate treatment for Hansen's disease, died on February 7 at the age of 86. Rea devoted his life to leprosy patients and died after a battle with cancer. He only left working a few months before his death in his home in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains.

Rea is known for his contribution in turning the once-incurable disease into completely curable. Besides, he abolished prejudice against leprosy sufferers. Now patients all around the world can live a normal life with the disease, which was once contagious. Rea and his colleague Dr. Robert Modlin found the precise role played by the immune system in Hansen's disease symptoms such as skin lesions and growths.

California sea lion pups have been suffering for the last few years. Last year, a number of young sea lions stranded along beaches despite overwhelming rescue efforts. Researchers have been trying to understand why the sea lion population has been declining dramatically, and now they have reached a step closer to find the answer.

Researchers have discovered that emaciated young pups that were found washed ashore are in chaos because California sea lion mothers are not getting enough high-quality food, as per a study published Wednesday in the journal Royal Society Open Science.

In a new research paper, psychologists have claimed that psychological research may not have replication crisis at all. In scientific process, replication or repeating experiments for the validation of actual study results is a significant factor. Efforts to boost the reproducibility of science play a very important part in the correct knowledge flow.

Published on August 28 last year in the journal Science, Open Science Collaboration (OSC) paper left the psychology community in shock, after it concluded that reproducibility of psychological research was surprisingly low.

In the next 10 years, we could witness amazing changes in technology and robotic skin that can change color to showcase different signals, could be one of those. The octopus-inspired skin doesn’t just bend and stretch, but also changes colors and probably give information with different types of views and colors.

In a new study that appeared on Thursday in Science, Cornell researchers disclosed that they have come up with a stretchable, Octopus-inspired robotic skin that is not just smooth, flexible but can also show colors on getting bend or stretched. It’s noteworthy that the robotic skin is strong and can stretch to roughly six times its actual size.

Scientists are looking forward to drill into an impact crater, containing the leftovers of a killer asteroid off Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.

An asteroid stuck at the Chicxulub crater 66 million years ago, killing the dinosaurs and most of the life forms on Earth, as per scientific community. Scientists are hopeful that by drilling into the crater sediments, they can possibly get some information regarding how life there bounced back post the devastating impact.

On Thursday, Research Professor Sean Gulick of University of Texas Institute for Geophysics told CNN, “You can assume that at ground zero of this impact we are dealing with a sterile ocean, and over time life renewed itself. We might learn something for the future”.

MIT researchers have come up with a new system that may make encryption techniques, which are presently in use to keep computer data safe, a thing of past. The research team said it has created a new quantum computer with the help of just five atoms. The computer is the first one ever to realize a potential mathematical technique that was invented over a couple of decades back.

With the help of laser pulses, they carried out Shor’s algorithm to determine the prime factors of the number fifteen, which are five and three. According to scientists, the process can be increased to factor bigger numbers.