Tag: study

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 ...

The latest study conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) definitely poses a few question marks, to say the least; ...

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 ...

A recent study published by Berkeley UC concluded that an hour nap boosts the brain's learning capacity and restores power, ...

Scarlett Johansson. Not related in anyway to the study... but a fine example. Well we all know the effect a ...

Nobody wants to grow old, but at least at this point in our evolution, it's unavoidable. Growing old however, is ...

For years and years (good) doctors have warned about the dangers of taking antibiotics too lightly, which generally causes 'bugs' ...

Pluto is so upset that it's no longer a planet, that it's turning all red with anger ! No, seriously. ...

The sun begins to ooze off outside of Birmingham, England. It's tea time. A woman stands alone in her house, ...

The G-Spot debate is probably never gonna end; and who can carry it out better than the English and the ...

Well you've probably all seen the Myth Busters. I've watched some episodes and loved most of them, so I'm hoping ...

I came across this particular pic which really made me think. I don't know if they did the math right, ...

A new research published in Nature Physics showed that there may be oceans of diamonds (literally) on both Uranus and ...

I was surprised to talk to a bunch of people today and find out they didn't know about this, so ...

There are weird lawsuits you can understand, and then there are just weird lawsuits. If you find this sort of ...

The Planet Researchers have long been interested in finding other planets that have approximately the same size as our mother ...

We've heard of a lot of dangers that the television brings, including obesity, violence, teen pregnancy and eye problems, but ...

Well, the talk is on homeopathy, but this is really not about homeopathy. It's about the "physics" explanation, and how ...

Well despite what many people might think, Hollywood isn't and never was the center of the world (hopefully, it won't ...

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

Where do birds go in the winter? That's a question many of us asked, as kids. Well puffins are currently ...

The US-Japan Sukazu observatory reported the finding of some never-before seen embers from the high temperature fireballs that immediately follower ...

I was writing a while ago that major biofuel production is not really that far away and the good news ...

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 ...

The previous 5 mass extinctions wiped out more than three quarters of the world's animals, and if things continue to ...

As I was writing in a previous post, Titan is quite unique, in that aside from our planet it's the ...

Since the Large Hadron Collider went back in business, all sort of rumors have been circling the scientific circles (and ...

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

Facebook has already caused a major revolution in the way people regard social interaction, but really not much has been ...

Ants are most amazing creatures, and there's so much we could learn from them I wouldn't even know where to ...

The Siberian tiger is the biggest feline to walk the face of the Earth at the time, but if today's ...

According to the Australian Antarctic Division, at least a hundred Antarctic icebergs are currently drifting towards New Zealand at a ...

The researchers from the Census of Marine Wildlife have accomplished a truly amazing task; they have inventoried a fantastic abundance ...

Dr Andrew Marshall, from the Environment Department at the University of York is the first who spotted a member of ...

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

A study conducted by professor Joseph Forgas at the University of New South Wales showed that bad moods can actually ...

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

It may seem hard to believe, but even smoking a single cigarette has really bad effects on you, especially if ...

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 ...

  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 ...

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

Well, it seems all we've been writing about lately is sex and jelly fish (there's a connection somewhere, I just ...