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While they hunt kangaroos, aborigines in remote areas of Australia help boost marsupial populations by lighting bush fires. Image: acanberraboy.blogspot.com ...

Scientists successfully predicted human happiness using a mathematical equation - you too can use the smartphone app they developed and ...

A new study that shifted through 81 e-cig related studies found that these are less harmful than conventional cigarettes. Policymakers, ...

The UN released the Human Development Index for 2014, and it's bad news for the United States - which come ...

“We women talk too much, nevertheless we only say half of what we know.”  Nancy Witcher Astor, Viscountess There's a ...

Photo: The Guardian British researchers at Imperial College London and Cardiff University have provided more insights into the mechanics of consciousness-altering ...

Professor Terry Dawson of the University of New South Wales and colleagues found that kangaroos use their tail as an extra leg ...

Mima mounds. The Mima mounds are low, flattened, domelike, natural mounds covered with vegetation, covering the landscape in an apparent pattern; ...

An invasive ant has been sweeping through southeastern United States; it has a jaw like a bear trap, which close ...

When I read this, I initially thought it was a joke - but sadly, that's not the case. While the ...

Most people would are surprised when they hear that 768 million people don't have access to clean water. That's twice ...

An electron microscope shows the neck region of the Allegheny mound ant. Ohio State University Ants are one of the ...

If you're trying to hold on to old memories, then some new, fresh brain cells may be the last thing ...

The entire living world is "written" with just four DNA bases: A = adenine C = cytosine G = guanine T = thymine However, ...

An Amazonian isolated village, with natives in the background. Some of them can be seen with their bows readied to ...

Over the last few months, we've written a lot about some fantastic 3D designs which can be very useful in ...

Artist's rendition of Kepler-186f - just 10% larger than Earth. Remember a few days ago, when I was telling you ...

Shiveluch Remote, cold, rugged, and fiedy - that's the Kamceatka Peninsula for you! Out of all the 1,550 volcanoes that have erupted ...

Photo: telegraph.co.uk A team of development psychologists who have been following children's temperament since they were babies until early adulthood ...

It's a truly terrifying story, and a truly terrifying disease. The flesh-eating culprit in question is called GAS, or Group A ...

It's something that puzzled me for years now: consider a pair of identical twins; say, one gets a job as an ...

It seems like ever since the first caveman opened up the first popup barter-based kiosk people have been trying to ...

Although things are starting to change, video games still get a ton of bad rep - and for good reason, ...

Talk about dedication to science! Michael Smith, a graduate student at Cornell University mapped which parts of the body are ...

La Trobe University research has revealed a tobacco plant’s natural defense mechanisms could be harnessed to kill cancer cells in ...

Throughout history, Chinese culture has rivaled and many times surpassed other, more famous empires -- but many of their achievements ...

Image Credits. Everybody knows (or at least should know) that eating fruits and vegetables is good for you; however, most ...

Photo: rodalenews.com Most people nowadays buy antibacterial soaps instead of normal ones, because they believe it keeps them safe and ...

Brain tissue from a mouse shows star-shaped astrocytes (green). Cells (blue) containing mutant protein (white) display lower levels of a ...

Seismologists working at the University of Utah reported an earthquake occurring at 06:34 AM on March 30, 2014 (MDT). The ...

Suspended animation in the Alien movie. For the half-dead arriving at hospitals, like the unfortunate who suffer gunshot wounds or ...

In a huge breakthrough in synthetic biology, scientists at Johns Hopkins University have engineered from scratch a yeast chromosome. This ...

A while ago, Andrei published a post in which he uploaded and spoke about seven key charts that show plain ...

For men of simple means and upbringing, it's easy to credit racism: the other fellow is different from me - ...

We are detecting waves on a world 1,272,000,000 km away from Earth. An interesting world The signature of isolated ripples ...

The BICEP2 experiment at the South Pole reported the first ever piece of evidence that support the cosmic inflation theory ...

As a kid, looking at the Predator movies gave me goosebumps; it wasn't the physical superiority of the Predator, but ...

We've been receiving many messages from you guys, asking why exactly does it take so long to develop a new ...

A magnitude 6.9 earthquake off the coast of Northern California struck Sunday night, on the 9th of March. It was ...

A Silicon Valley start-up have developed a machine capable of a biblical feat: turning water into wine. They call it ...

San Francisco, for the nice and laid back city that it is, has many problems - and I was pretty ...

Photo: blog.chron.com Researchers at  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor have recently reached some arguable findings, after an analysis of statistical data ...

David Ley, PhD, a clinical psychologist in practice in Albuquerque, NM, made an extensive review study of the current scientific ...

Photo: Wikimedia Commons For some, it might seem like recycling popped out of the blue in the 1970's, once with ...

Photo: dogsense.co.uk It's always depressing when we hear stories of dogs attacking people, more so when injuries lead to death. ...

Photo:Johan Wingborg/AP Doctors from Sweden recently revealed they have successfully completed a total of nine womb transplants, marking a new ...

While happiness and meaningfulness often overlap, the two are distinct states of being. A Stanford project looked into the lives ...

The stoat may look cute, but it's one of the most invasive species in the world.

Carbon nanotubes are cylindrical nanostructures with a myriad of potential applications. They are the strongest and stiffest materials yet discovered ...

Photo: spartandaily.com Every business out-there, be it a corporate giant or a small shop, has it in its mind that ...