Tag: Research

Physicists from NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) have demonstrated what they claim to be the first universal programmable ...

In 2005, a huge 35 mile rift broke the Ethiopian desert apart and immediately led to geological claims that a ...

Imagine an average day in your life; the odds are, it'll include either logging onto facebook, tweeting, browsing some pics ...

It's quite obvious that genetics is the most important step in our evolution that we have to take and although ...

History is just teeming with examples of brilliant artists that acted in very peculiar ways - to put it lightly. ...

AIDS is one of the most dangerous diseases nowadays, being a pandemic for many years now, and there's been quite ...

You're not going to power too many devices with electricity from trees. But it is a very interesting phenomenon.

  A significant part of Australia's east coast, including country's biggest city, Sydney, has been engulfed by a shroud of ...

The (awesome) ability of geckos and other related reptiles to shed their tale when endangered by predators has been known ...

Deep in one of the warmest places on the planet, in the Kalahari desert, there lies the 'Devil's Claw', a ...

We've all endured some kind of physical pain, more or less intense. When you hit your finger while hammering, for ...

Feeling the need for scientific research to back up the 'dirty old men' myth, Gothenburg University and Oxford University scientists ...

Frank Guenther of Boston University in Massachusetts and his colleagues worked with a man who was unable to move or ...

It's the equivalent of taking the Hubble telescope (before it was damaged) and directing it towards atoms and molecules instead ...

Every once in a while you hear about such a good idea that you just know it deserves a prize. ...

One of humanity's fiercest enemies in the modern world is without a doubt this terrible malady, which has caused an ...

It may seem weird, but ear infections don't attack only your ears, but your weight too. If you get them ...

It's not as if this was a novelty, but now there's the scientific background to prove it. Actually, this refers ...

If you ever visited a neighboring country and found that the people there had little or no connection to your ...

Diamonds are a girl's best friend, but according to a study led by Andrei Sommer, Dan Zhu, and Hans-Joerg Fecht, ...

  Everybody pondered at least once in their lives the possibility of being immortal, and this idea sparkled in the ...

Ever wake up in the morning and just couldn't get out of bed? Did you ever have something to do ...

    It's still unclear how sleep deprivation affects us, as there are still so many things scientists have failed ...

Photo by out of rhythm A recent study has shown one of the world's most dangerous viruses, the human immunodeficiency ...

  I've always been fascinated by intelligence as a human trait. Smarter and more intelligent people seem to have this ...

    Well this sure sounds like a good plan to me... Scientists found out that Ketamine (also called Special ...

    I'm not fond of alarmist theories or "bad things are happening, fast" attitude, but... bad things are just ...