It's increasingly hard to eat less sugar, as market shelves are filled with sugary products. In the past ten years...

Science journal today seem to be dominated by positive results - that is those that are statistically significant and lead...

A crowd gathered for the New America Foundation’s first annual Future of War conference was told by DARPA's director that...

Airports, some of the busiest places, are now becoming unlikely hosts for bees. Not content with mechanical winged contraptions, airports...

India is among the most polluted country in the world, a direct consequence of its growth-orientated policy. Despite economic growth,...

Big cities are crammed with millions of pigeons, but despite their large numbers the birds seem to have no problem...

It's not just women who are concerned with their bodies and eating disorders, it's men too. This might seem obvious,...

US researchers have imaged for the first time ultra-small bacteria, whose existence has been debatable for the past couple of...

This gentle and secluded creature is called a pangolin. Bet you've never heard of him. It looks sort of like...

Memories aren't infallible - even for those with photographic memory - so, more often than not, they'll seem fuzzy. And...

One of the prime arguments climate change skeptics throw about is how surface temperatures have remained more or less constant...

Like most things in our modern day life style, we tend to take vaccines for granted. Some, in ever growing...

In America and other developed countries, the leading causes of death are heart disease and cancer. Elsewhere, the picture can...

A complex artificial intelligence program developed by DeepMind, a London-based company which was acquired by Google last year for $400...

Paleontologists have excavated and analyzed the remains of an ancient hypo ancestor in Kenya. The 28 million-year-old fossils paint a...

Astronomers have discovered a humongous supermassive black hole that's 12 billion times as massive as the Sun. What's peculiar about...

Norwegian rats know how to keep their friends close. A new study found they reward other rats for their help...

Two new studies - both covering gay men, one in Britain and the other in France - were recently shared...

The highlight of the award winning film, "The Imitation Game", is when Alan Turing and colleagues devise an ingenious statistical...

The love hormone, oxytocin, was found to neutralize the motor deficiency effects of alcohol in rats, sobering them up. The...

Contrary to popular belief, much of the damage inflicted to the skin by harmful ultraviolet (UV) light occurs hours after...

Using CT-scans, researchers at the Netherlands-based Drents Museum imaged a mummified monk who lived 1,000 years ago inside a Buddha...

Stanford scientists proved that it's possible use DNA minirings that code the production of a specific protein that can't be...

In the quest to understand what are the crucial differences between human and chimpanzee brains, scientists have isolated a stretch...

Here's another reason for children to do their chores: washing dishes by hand boosts children's immune system. The findings were...

The mighty Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan wasn't all that  different from New York City today, or any major city for that matter, despite the former has...

Marine animals today are 150 times larger than they were 540 million years ago, according to a new study which...

A new report highlights the reprehensible state of women working in STEM fields—science, technology, engineering, and mathematics— where they're not...

Here's a question: what's the difference between actor Sean Penn and the charitable Mother Theresa? Bear with me for a...

Can you judge a person by his fingers? If that person's a men, yes you can, some scientists would agree....

The most populated city in the United States is already experiencing its fair share of floods, hurricanes and heat waves,...

Languages like English, Greek or Hindu, all Indo-European tongues, stem from a common ancestral language family which originated 5,500 -...

Many scholars who still seek to explain why more women leave the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) pipeline than...

Alec Falkenham, a 27-year-old PhD student at Dalhousie University in Halifax, has invented a special cream that will wipe out...

After scientists discovered a huge hole in the ozone layer above the Antarctic, an emergency UN panel banned the use...

British researchers have demonstrated three ways gold nanotubes can be used against cancer: 1) high resolution in-vivo imaging; 2) drug...

The team behind Interstellar's awesome special effects meant business when they set out to emulate space, celestial objects and black...

We know that things like eye or skin colour are encoded in our DNA and passed down by our parents,...

South Londoners who smoke skunk weed - a much more potent strain of cannabis - were found to be three...

Speaking at the 2015 AAAS Annual Meeting, US researchers showed a coloured map of the quietest regions in the United States,...

This is a picture of a cat, obviously, but do you notice something strange about it? Sure looks like a...

The best storage medium might actually be DNA, considering the vast amount of information it store relative to its weight...

At this years' Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Symposium, NASA's Glenn COMPASS Team discussed at large the possibility of exploring Titan,...

Dr. Robert W. Levenson is a psychologist at UC Berkeley who has been studying 156 married middle-aged and older couples...

A lesser known side effect of a famous blue pill.

Using ultra-fast laser techniques employed by the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, scientists have peered through the transitional state...

A rare Neolithic-era burial site was discovered by the northern entrance of the Alepotrypa (“Foxhole”) Cave in southern Greece. The...

Although mammals surfaced only 20 million years after the first dinosaurs evolved, there's a general consensus that mammals were shadowed...

A great explanation of Einstein's theory of relativity for laymen.