Tag: study

Researchers have been sounding the alarm for years, but the US still has a big mercury pollution problem.

Exploring the depths and implications of Bloom's Taxonomy in learning.

The intricate world of adult learning theories and their real-world applications.

Our world is a strange and awesome place - but some things are just hard to believe!

Imagine the biggest wave you can imagine. Now make it bigger.

"Happy"

In news today: people still like jokes.

The idea that coffee is good for you is not a new one.

Surprisingly, getting neither isn't that bad for your results.

Image via Wikipedia. Scientific publishing is a competitive environment, under heavy scrutiny from reviewers, editor and peers. Over the years, ...

Highschool students whose friends have higher grades than them have a significant tendency to raise their own grades over the ...

What if you could increase your ability to remember with a pill?  This may not be an idea just for ...

You can't believe everything people say, but you sometimes can't even believe what you hear, especially if you've had 3 ...

What can possibly link together speed, strength, and the colour red ? Nope, it's not a brand new Ferrari - ...

Much like humans, monkeys too exhibit signs of regret, and they wonder themselves what might have been, according to a ...

Researchers at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill have found that more and more young adults are suffering from a ...

Autism is still yet poorly understood, and researchers are just starting to figure out the mechanisms behind this strange condition ...

First of all, don't think of alien species as extraterrestrials; if you came here wanting to hear about that - ...

This is one of those studies which makes you realize that being a researcher definitely has some unexpdected perks; it ...

Law is a highly demanding field, in which its practitioners are required to have an objective and stoic approach at ...

The topic of modification of data in scientific research is definitely a hot one; the frequency at which researchers fabricate ...

Girls like pink, boys like blue. Girls have long hair, boys have short hair. And so on, so on - ...

Bears are some of the most amazing and loved animals out there, and to find out that up until a ...

For physicists, antimatter is probably the most valuable substance ever; the slightest bit of it could provide extremely valuable information ...

One of the "highlights" of being a student or a young employee is having to stay up at night and ...

You know those days when you go to the beach, and it's just too hot outside, so you have to ...

That's right people, all the life on this beautiful planet (yep, that includes you) could descend from alien zombies. Well, ...

This amazing snailfish is just one of the animals new to science that have been uncovered by Oceanlab scientists; the ...

Scientists working for the UN reported today that they have erradicated the Rinderpest virus, a virus that is deadly for ...

After an exciting discovery of a habitable earth-like planet, skepticism settles back in as a second team of scientists casts ...

A recently discovered planet is just about the right size and is in the right place to host life; as ...

Researchers at Emory University School of Medicine have conducted a study showing that the deletion of a particular gene makes ...

Boy, you just can't have enough octopus, that's for sure - they're really amazing creatures, that often surprise us. Now, ...

As if the domesticated dog's position as, "man's (or woman's) best friend" was not entrenched in the human zeitgeist enough, ...

Storm elves and sprites are electric luminous fleeting phenomena that sometimes naturally occur in the upper atmosphere. A team of ...

A new study has shown that most people who think they have food alergies (over 80% in fact) actually don't ...

As any fourth grader will tell you, photosynthesis is (in layman terms), the process through which plants (and bacteria, algae, ...

c If you want your kids to be healthier, thinier and smarter, then you probably should keep them away from ...

Yes ladies and gents, researchers have produced the whole genome sequence of the 3 billion "letters" (nucleotides) in the Neanderthalian ...

The first touchable scientific results of the Herschel infrared space observatory are spectacular indeed; not only is it showing previously ...

Using DNA preserved for 25.000 - 43.000 years in bones from Siberian mammoths, a team of international scientists recreated mammoth ...

Barack Obama came out and said that it should be possible for NASA to send astronauts to Mars and bring ...

Two studies put Einstein's theory, the General Theory of Relativity to a test unlike any other before. The two teams ...

The discovery of 9 new planets raises some serious questions on the matter of how planets are formed. Two astronomers ...

The mimic octopus, Thaumoctopus mimicus is a species of octopus that grows up to 60 cm (2 feet) in length ...

Take a really good look at this picture; you may just be looking at the very thing that will defeat ...

According to a research conducted by researchers from the Cornell University the portions and the plates depicted in more than ...

At nearly 200 meters below the ice, there is no light, the temperature is way below 0 degrees, and scientists ...

Just like any muscle in your body, if not used, the brain starts to degrade as time passes; this has ...

Parts of the car's bodywork could double up as it's batter in a not so far away future; at least ...