Tag: Studies

Researchers have found that immune cells from a cold attack Covid differently from vaccines.

A nurse's tender loving really does ease the pain during a medical procedure, and grandma's cookies really do taste better ...

When you first hear of the work done by Miguel Nicolelis and his team, though the "cool factor" is high, ...

Viagra isn't just for grown ups, not anymore. As a matter of fact, few people know that at first, viagra ...

"It's a great day to be a particle physicist," said CERN director general Rolf Heuer. "A lot of people have ...

Whether intelligent life exists in our universe is a long debated problem. But for some scientists, there's something even more ...

The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) published some quite awesome pictures showing that Antarctica isn't the lifeless frozen wasteland most people ...

Obesity is a problem that's taking bigger and bigger proportions (especially in the US), due mostly to fast food and ...

Researchers from Yale University succeeded in what seemed to be an impossible task: they've created a transistor from a single ...

Researchers from the Scripps Research Institute have determined for the first time that prions, which are just bits of infectious ...

Scientists have for the first time determined the actual permeability of the asthenosphere in Earth's upper mantle, which is basically ...

It's been a busy year indeed, especially with the LHC doing it's thing again, Hubble was repaired and there was ...

Global warming is one of the main concerns on everybody's lips, causing more and more damage to the environment every year, ...

Blue whales are not only the biggest living creatures in the world right now, but the biggest ever to have ...

Nanotechnology is perhaps the field with the most spectacular development over the past years, but it can be really hard ...

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

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

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

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

Music has traditionally been something scientists have found hard to characterize - it is basically a form of social communication ...

Despite whatever you may hear, it's obvious that we still don't have a clear understanding of the impact we're having ...

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

No other continent in the world (that's not counting Antarctica) is studied by less ecologists than Africa; that is actually ...

Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder, or at least that's what we used to hear as kids from ...

It's not because they deserve it, if that's what you're thinking - you mysoginistic bastard; and it's not because they're ...

Our old Sun has broken a milestone that has not happened for almost a hundred years, as an entire month ...

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

A few days ago, I wrote about the damage that a well intended, but wrongly conducted mangrove restoration could cause; ...

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

To understand this, you need just a very basic knowledge of chemistry, nothing fancy. When small parts of organic matter ...

This has been talked about for ever, and as much as we admit it or not, a big mass of ...

About 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian, and event caused a mass extinction which killed over ...