Parents’ second-hand smoke might clog children’s arteries
A longitudinal study that spanned 26 years found that kids exposed to their Finish parents cigarette smoke are at risk...
Kept in the dark: half of Alzheimer’s diagnoses aren’t disclosed by doctors
For its annual report, the The Alzheimer’s Association in the US claims that more than half of all reported early...
Why insulin is so prohibitively expensive to the 29 million diabetes patients in the US
Even if it was first discovered more than 90 years ago, insulin is still out of reach for a shocking...
Woolly mammoth and modern elephant DNA merged. Next, cloning
Cloning the woolly mammoth is a life long dream for many geneticists and biologists, but the challenges are numerous. Now,...
You’re flushing a goldmine down the toilet, literally
At a recent meeting of the of the American Chemical Society, researchers proposed a novel source of valuable metals: waste...
Bioelectricity vital to brain and tissue development, tadpole experiment shows
Biologists at Tufts Universityand University of Minnesota showed for the first time that bioelectricity signaling between cells guides embryonic brain...
Every year, spring is 30 seconds shorter
Spring officially began in the northern hemisphere Friday on 22:45 GMT, around 30 seconds later than last year. As it...
Book review: ‘The Federal Reserve and the Financial Crisis’
The 2008 financial crisis explained by the Federal Reserve chairman.
Darwin’s ‘strangest animals’ finally classified thanks to protein sequencing
While in South American during his 1830 expedition with the HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin came across the fossils of two...
Florida employee forced to leave of absence and called a ‘nut’ for mentioning ‘climate change’
Barton Bibler, a long time employee of Florida's environmental protection department, was forced by his boss to take a leave...
Croc ancestor was the top two-legged predator on Earth, long before T. Rex and other dinosaurs
Long before T-rex claimed the top dog spot among terrestrial predators, a vicious crocodile ancestor that walked on its hind...
Why some tropical mushrooms glow in the dark
The tropical forests of Northeaster Brazil have their own nightlight: a peculiar mushroom called Neonothopanus gardneri that glows in the...
Q&A with Dr. Ijad Madisch (ResearchGate founder)
Ijad Madisch a Harvard trained virologist and computer scientist was on his way to becoming a medical professor, but in...
Cannabis under the microscope: up close and personal
Scientists, in the lab at least, see marijuana differently from growers or users. Like other plants, once you dive into...
Workplace suicides on the rise – doctors, law enforcement workers and soldiers most vulnerable
Each year worldwide about one million people decide to take their own lives. Overriding your conservation instincts isn't easy, let's...
Buzz Aldrin in Stonehenge photoshoot: ‘Get your a** to Mars’
Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the moon, is no stranger to staggering photos. His most famous shot includes the...
Unsatisfied by their government’s apathy, Canadian scientists propose their own climate policy
The conservative Canadian government headed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper has consistently moved the country away from sustainable practices and...
Strongest geomagnetic storm this solar cycle sparks dazzling Northern Lights
A pair of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) emitted by the sun last Sunday have now triggered a severe geomagnetic storm...
Book review: ‘The Quantum Moment’
How the quantum moment "overturned basic beliefs about space and time, causality and reality, and exposed as mistaken many fundamental...
Cyborg cockroaches might save human lives someday
Half cockroach, half machine, these peculiar insects were hijacked by researchers at Texas A&M University for science. Electrodes implanted in...
Finally, a fully transparent solar energy harvester
University of Michigan researchers have devised what looks like the world's first fully transparent solar cell. Think of all of...
These birds evolutionary diverged on the same island – why this is very big news
While he was only 22 years of age, Charles Darwin sailed on the ship H.M.S. Beagle to the Galapagos Island...
This 3D printer for small molecules might change organic chemistry forever
At his lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Dr. Martin Burke laid the foundation for what he simply...
Peruvian farmer forced to relocate because of climate change now demands compensation from German company
Saul Luciano Lliuya is a farmer from Peru whose home in the floodpath of the Palcacocha lake which has been...
For the first time in history, CO2 emissions decouple from economic growth
Historically, CO2 emissions linearly follow the world's economy, either dropping during recession or raising with growth. Today, we're expelling more...
Anti-vaxxer bet $100,000 that scientists couldn’t prove measles exists. German court now orders man to pay up
Four years ago, a vocal anti vaccine activist and a biologist by training challenged not only established medical science, but...
Ultrasound treatment restores memory in Alzheimer’s plagued mice
The most effective weapon against the dreadful Alzheimer's might not be a drug, but a breakthrough therapy based on ultrasounds...
Metaphors help us read other people’s minds
Friends use metaphors more often when speaking to one another, and this helps them gauge each other's emotional state according...
Worker ants doubled in size by scientists to demonstrate epigenetics
Florida worker ants doubled in size after scientists performed chemical changes to their DNA. The ants were not genetically modified...
Growing flowers locally is important too, not just food
Between 1992 and 2007, the number of products sold by farmers directly to consumers increased three fold and twice as...
Artificial leaf breakthrough makes solar fuels one step closer
A team at Caltech has devised a new film coating that facilitates catalysis and electron transfer in a solar powered...
Autism genes predict higher intelligence – if you’re not autistic in the first place
A link between heightened intelligence and autism has been suspected by scientists based on empirical evidence, and now genetic screening...
At least 81% of China’s coastline is heavily polluted
It's not just Chinese air that's dirty and polluted, it's the coastline too.
Homeopathy doesn’t treat any health condition, most comprehensive study to date finds
The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), Australia's top medical research body, found that homeopathy does improve or alleviate...
Why Van Gogh’s paintings are fading to white
Belgian scientists have revealed a refined explanation for the chemical process that's currently degrading Vincent van Gogh's famous paintings, which...
How chameleons change color: by changing nanocrystal patterns inside the skin
The chameleon is one of the most remarkable, but also iconic creatures in the animal kingdom. It's color shifting traits...
Doctors perform eye surgery on a goldfish
People generally love their pets, but we'd be lying to say there isn't an inter-species discrimination. How many fish owners...
Your smartphone might be making you stupid
People who excessively rely on their smartphones scored lower on tests which gauged cognitive abilities like analytical thinking than those...
Psychedelics aren’t linked to mental health problems – on the contrary
Two new studies, independently published in the same journal, found that consciousness expanding substances like LSD or psilocybin (the psychoactive...
Supernova flings star out of the Milky Way – it’s the fastest moving star ever
Astronomers have discovered a star racing at a incredible pace of 2.6 million miles an hour (4.2 million kilometers an...
The plane that will circle the globe on solar power alone
Tomorrow, Swiss aviators Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg will embark on an epic journey aboard Solar Impulse 2 - an...
Florida officials banned from using words like “climate change” or “global warming” in public
In Florida, some have already found a solution to climate change: just ignore the damn thing! According to a outrageous...
Dropping weights in space to test Einstein’s general relativity
Extraordinaire experimental physicist Galileo Galilei allegedly climbed hundreds of step to reach the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa's...
The farmers of the future will be all robots
By 2050, world population is expected to rise to nine billion, but the amount of arable land meant to grow...
Bill Nye changes his mind about GMOs
Image:Credit: AP/John Davisson Most recently, Bill Nye is famous for his viral debate against against Ken Han on creationism. The debate...
Half of the world’s feed crops will soon be eaten by Chinese pigs
The pace and scale of China's economic transformation have no historical precedent. In 1979, China initiated a series of reforms...
Cosmetic eye surgery turns brown eyes into blue
We live in a society which puts a lot of pressure on looks. Women especially, are always looking for new...
Self-driving cars might generate hundreds of billions in revenue
Some people waste hours each day driving their car, time they could have otherwise spent better. You'll still be trapped...
Wind turbines help crops grow better
It amazes me when I hear people say they're against wind turbines because ... wait for it... they're ugly. If...
Fighting intestinal worm infections with its own genes
Parasitic hookworms infect half a billion people worldwide, causing severe health problems like gastrointestinal issues, cognitive impairment and stunted growth...