Progress in artificial leaf development made
What nature seems to perform effortlessly with photosynthesis has proven to be an immense hurdle for scientists trying to mimic...
Link between cat bites and depression found
Photo: blog.chron.com Researchers at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor have recently reached some arguable findings, after an analysis of statistical data...
Exercising helps preserve vision for the elderly
Physical workouts, be it simple home fitness, represent a golden standard for living a healthy life. Researchers at Emory University...
American livestock is riddled with drugs – what’s in your meat
Photo: ecolutionist.com A report released to the public by the USDA Inspector General states that numerous beef samples were found to contain penicillin,...
Your virtual avatar influences the way you behave in the real world
Photo: Jim Lee and Scott Williams/DC Comics and Warner Bros. Pictures We've wrote before on studies discussing some of the...
There’s no such thing as porn addiction, review study says
David Ley, PhD, a clinical psychologist in practice in Albuquerque, NM, made an extensive review study of the current scientific...
In Canada bees are making hives out of plastic
Bees are one of the most intelligent insects, and their resourcefulness is well recognized. Despite bee populations as a whole...
Skeleton remains prove first North American settlers came from Asia
The genome sequence of the Ice Age skeletal remains of a 1-year-old boy gave scientists tantalizing proof that the first...
The most devastating mass extinction in Earth’s history happened much faster
Some 252 million years ago, 96 percent of marine species and 70 percent of life on land became extinct following...
Leaking natural gas may be a significant contributor to global warming
Natural gas leakage in the LA basin area from oil drilling and piping loses could be more significant than thought....
The ‘neurocam’ records your most precious moments – do we need it though?
(c) neuroware With Google Glass, the search engine giant wants to bring social networking and personal video editing a step...
Is there a bias against black scientists?
(c)blackyouthproject.com In popular view, the scientists is a white, skinny male, clothed in a white lab coat, wearing glasses. Of...
Oldest footprints discovered in Europe are 800,000 years old
Area A at Happisburgh: View of footprint surface looking south, also showing underlying horizontally bedded laminated silts. (c) PLOS ONE...
The top 7 countries responsible for global warming
A new study published in Environmental Research Letters ranks the the top seven contributing countries to global warming. Together, these nations...
Erasing traumatic memories using gene therapy
Photo: neuroanthropology.net - It's estimated that some 8 million people in the United States suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), causing...
Of scarceness and wastefulness: the history of recycling
Photo: Wikimedia Commons For some, it might seem like recycling popped out of the blue in the 1970's, once with...
South Africa: 1,000 rhinos poached – 50 % more than last year
(c) Panda.org The new year started with a glim of hope for environmentalists and animal rights activists all over the...
Ancient skulls discovered in London speak of Roman headhunters
Photo: Guardian Using modern forensic techniques, bioarchaeologists have found that a slew of skulls, discovered a few decades ago in...
Young people have HD memories
Photo: yahoo.com A new study that looked to compare how working memory differs in young and old people, found that...
How to survive a nuclear attack: mathematical model gives you some options
The first moments following a nuclear attack are crucial. If you're right in line of the blast, well ... you're...
Breed not the dominant factor in canine aggressiveness
Photo: dogsense.co.uk It's always depressing when we hear stories of dogs attacking people, more so when injuries lead to death....
Supercomputer simulates one second of human brain activity in 40 minutes
The K supercomputer in Japan. The human brain is arguably the most complex structure in the Universe. To unlock its...
Organic flow battery may help usher renewable energy
A prototype of the flow battery developed at Harvard. (c) Eliza Grinnell, SEAS Communications One of the biggest arguments against...
Roughest San Francisco schools tamed through meditation
For school teachers working in some of San Francisco's toughest schools, giving everyday to work isn't some new opportunity to...
Screening job candidates on facebook backfires for employees
Who would have thought snooping into people's private lives pisses them off? A new study by North Carolina State University researchers...
New images of Tarantula Nebula may help refine star formation theory
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope recently completed one of its most thorough and ambitious mozaic projectes. Astronomers at Hubble, stitched together...
Zebrafish locomotion helps explain how complex human limb control evolved
Photo: telegraph.co.uk What evolutionary traits helped humans become the dominant species on Earth? Our dexterous limbs and complex nervous system...
The most accurate map of the Universe suggests it’s ‘flat’ and infinite
Artist impression of BOSS map, complete with a view of the intergalactic 'ruler'. (c) BOSS A new map of a...
Smart ‘curtains’ open and close just by responding to light only
Schematic for two different types of PC/SWNT photoactuators made by tuning the built-in strain of the bilayers. (c) Nature Communications...
Living a happy or meaningful life – what’s the difference?
While happiness and meaningfulness often overlap, the two are distinct states of being. A Stanford project looked into the lives...
Universe at your fingertips – 3D prints of Hubble photos let the blind ‘see’
NGC 609 is one of the many small galactic star clusters located in the Milky Way in Cassiopia. It shines...
A novel strategy for spotting time travelers
In the movie "Back to the Future", Marty McFly almost ends up erasing himself from existence after nearly having prevented...
Hamburg wants to become a car-free city in 20 years
One of the most beautiful cities in Europe, Hamburg has embarked on an ambitious plan that aims to promote cycling...
People show up at the hospital with burns after trying boiling-to-freezing water trick
This week a big part of North America was paralyzed after powerful winds and freezing gusts swept the continent in...
Eight million lives saved since first anti-tobacco warning 50 years ago
A study from Yale University found that some eight million premature deaths have been adverted as a result of anti-smoking...
First images from Gemini capture planets outside our solar system
The bright star Beta Pictoris is hidden behind a mask in the center of the images; a few scattered starlight...
Peculiar medical cases: The woman who can write, but can’t read
M.P., a kindergarten teacher and expert reader, was hit by a stroke and, in the aftermath, her brain underwent some...
Newly found gassy exoplanet has mass similar to Earth’s
Artist impression of KOI-314c. Credit: C. Pulliam & D. Aguilar (CfA) A team of astronomers recently discovered a new exoplanet...
China destroys six tonnes of seized ivory as anti-poaching message
Photo: Vincent Yu/Associated Press As China's populace grew in affluence and trade restrictions with other countries became more permissive, the...
Chimeric organ harvesting: growing human organs inside pigs
Photo: freefoto.com Sure to raise a slew of controversy and debate, researchers in Japan are currently investigating the possibility of...
Obesity in the developing world quadruples since 1980
Photo: west-info.eu The world is changing awfully fast, and with change expect many paradigms to shift or crumble entirely to...
Dogs can sense Earth’s magnetic field… while pooping
Every dog owner can attest that canines are remarkable navigators, like some sort of living, breathing compasses. For some time,...
Remembering faces is influenced by genetics. Face recognition gene found
Some people just have the knack of remembering the face of everyone they've met in their lives, while others, on...
Canyons both on Earth and Mars may have been made by megafloods
A huge megaflood may have carved the U-shaped canyons we can now see in Idaho some 46,000 years ago. The...
The Milky Way grows back two spiral arms
There has been a debate over the number of spiral arms the Milky Way galaxies has, due to mixed results...
New, more precise method to measure exoplanet mass
In the past two decades alone, some 900 exoplanets - planets outside our solar system - have been identified, with...
Sending a text message using Vodka molecules – the first continuous molecular communication
In nature, organisms communicate in various ways, be it through acoustic or biological signals. Insects, for instance, communicate and relay...
The sun is expected to flip its magnetic poles in the coming weeks
(c) NASA As the sun approaches the end of its 11-year-long cycle, scientists expect during one flash to change its...
The stunning Eye of God nebula
Arguably, NGC 7293 is maybe the most stunning deep space photograph astronomers have captured thus far. The nebula, located approximately 700 light-years...
New graphene treatment may help the wonder material turn mainstream
Graphene, a 2-D array of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagon shape, is one of the most researched material today....