After extracting ancient DNA from the 40,000-year-old bones of Neanderthals, scientists have obtained a draft sequence of the Neanderthal genome. The effort revealed evidence that shortly after early…

Following a drop in public confidence in climate scientists as a result of the 'Climategate' emails, two hundred fifty-five members of the National Academy of Sciences have joined together to defend…

The ESA's Herschel infrared space observatory is capturing new images from thousands of distant galaxies as they furiously build stars and beautiful star-forming clouds. The photographic evidence…

Previous research has suggested that the best approach to significant weight loss is a slow and steady one. But a new study in the International Journal of Behavioral Medicine indicates that the key…

Teenage girls are more willing than boys to communicate with their parents when it comes to talking about most dating issues, and both sexes generally prefer to talk to their mothers, according to a…

Two new studies conducted by scientists at Emory University have found that simple peptides can organize into bi-layer membranes. The finding suggests a "missing link" between the pre-biotic Earth's…

A compound in dark chocolate called epicatechin may protect the brain after a stroke by increasing cellular signals already known to shield nerve cells from damage. After inducing an ischemic stroke…

University of Sheffield geographers studying flowering plants say summers in England have been arriving earlier since the 1950s. Researchers examined records of the first blooming date of early…

It's almost World Cup time again and the South Africa event has been plagued by problems but one thing can always squelch critics and get fans excited - a great song.    Well, the World Cup…

In the interest of wanting to prove to the skeptics that the latest Chrome beta version is actually faster than lightening, Google set up these awesome speed tests to see whether Chrome can load…

Wild WellsCaution: satire alert! The current slight mishap in the Gulf of Mexico is just another oil spill. So says BP and the media, and we all know we can trust them to be honest and ethical. The…

The case for so-called organic farming has always been pretty weak, and a new study in Ecology Letters isn't helping the cause. The study found that the environmental benefits generated organic…

As concern grows after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico two weeks ago, scientists are monitoring the situation closely with ESA's Envisat radar data. The…

Researchers writing in Nature say they can have discovered how living cells use a limited number of genes to generate enormously complex organs such as the brain. The team describes how a hidden code…

A new wide-field image released today by ESO has captured a large group  of galaxies belonging to the massive cluster known as Abell 315. As crowded as it may appear, this assembly of galaxies…

Neuroscientists from the University of Southampton investigating alcohol dependency and withdrawal in C. elegans worms say they exhibit alcohol-dependent behaviors similar to humans, despite their…

This little girls seems ready to kick her way out of the womb and into the big wide world! The video was produced using an experimental technique taking time-lapse MRI images and then morphing them…

The UN-requested review of the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is to beheaded by Harold T. Shapiro, former president of Princeton. Shapiro, along with 11 others, will analyse…

The Hurrians (also Khurrites; cuneiform Ḫu-ur-ri ) were a people of the Ancient Near East, who lived in northern Mesopotamia and areas to the immediate east and west, beginning approximately 2500 BC…

A new book, just about to be published, has already caused a stir in the blogosphere. “Science vs. Religion: What Scientists Really Think” by Elaine Ecklund, a sociologist from Rice University,…