A New Class of Magnet Could Mean New Tech Capabilities
Researchers have discovered a new class of magnet that increases in volume when placed in a magnetic field and generates ...
Tag: Research
US lawmakers in charge of NASA and environmental funding don’t understand science
The people in charge of funding for NASA and environmental research, Republican senators Ted Cruz and James Inhofe, have a ...
Science at risk as young researchers increasingly denied research grants
America's young scientists are constantly losing the battle to receive more funding. They're losing research dollars, leaving research altogether and ...
Nature journals make all their articles free to view
Nature, one of the biggest academic journal groups has announced that they will make all their articles free to view. While ...
Increase Your Memory… With a Pill?
What if you could increase your ability to remember with a pill? This may not be an idea just for ...
Dutch researcher created super-influenza, with the capacity of killing billions
A Dutch researcher has created a virus so deadly that it has the potential to wipe out half of the ...
Giving Primates a Third Arm (and Why it Matters)
When you first hear of the work done by Miguel Nicolelis and his team, though the "cool factor" is high, ...
Research unveils increased rate of autism
Autism is still yet poorly understood, and researchers are just starting to figure out the mechanisms behind this strange condition ...
Antarctica threatened by alien species invasion
First of all, don't think of alien species as extraterrestrials; if you came here wanting to hear about that - ...
British scientists create kidneys from stem cells
In a breakthrough discovery that could revolutionize transplants, British researchers have managed to create human kidneys from stem cells, which ...
Approximately 1 in 50 researchers falsifies or modifies data in studies
The topic of modification of data in scientific research is definitely a hot one; the frequency at which researchers fabricate ...
Atom nuclei can store information
In case you're wondering, what you're looking at is a silicon chip, only 1 millimeter square that was used by ...
Physicists create previously thought impossible super photons
[caption id="attachment_4154" align="aligncenter" width="480" caption="Velocity-distribution data of a gas of rubidium atoms, confirming the discovery of a new phase of ...
New imaging method reveals stunning methods of brain connections
The typical healthy human brain contains about 200 billion nerve cells, called neurons, all of which are connected through hundreds ...
Antimatter captured at CERN
For physicists, antimatter is probably the most valuable substance ever; the slightest bit of it could provide extremely valuable information ...
Energy drinks can cause alcohol dependence
One of the "highlights" of being a student or a young employee is having to stay up at night and ...
NIH Grants drastically rolled back by federal budget cuts
As if it wasn't enough NIH funded grant applications are at a 20% low, according to a proposed federal discretionary ...
All life on earth could come from alien zombies
That's right people, all the life on this beautiful planet (yep, that includes you) could descend from alien zombies. Well, ...
Scientists uncover amazing species 7000 m below water level
This amazing snailfish is just one of the animals new to science that have been uncovered by Oceanlab scientists; the ...
Shorties: Prostate cancer test developed
Despite going through one of it's darkest periods, British research is still coming up with great results: British medical researchers ...