The uplifting emotion we experience when watching others perform a virtuous deed--known as "elevation"--may be enough to get us to go out and perform good acts ourselves, say new findings reported in…

The starburst region NGC 3603 is a cosmic factory where stars form frantically from the nebula's extended clouds of gas and dust. Located 22 000 light-years away from the Sun, it is the closest…

A new study published today in Nature suggests that approximately seven in every thousand morbidly obese people are missing a section of their DNA containing approximately 30 genes, which may be…

Children and young adults are more likely to pursue sports, music or other pastimes when given an opportunity to nurture their own passion, according to a three-part study Published in the latest…

Writing in the journal PLoS ONE, an international team of scientists says invasive plants could become even more prevalent and destructive as climate change continues. According to the new analysis…

Psychologists at the University of Leeds say people who spend a lot of time browsing the internet are more likely to show depressive symptoms. In a study to be published in the journal…

An integrated approach is needed to mitigate climate change it needs social change in thinking process also. The bigger is better. More consumption is sign of prosperity. I can purchase gas , petrol…

IS IT TRUE WHAT WE PERCEIVE? REMEMBERING THE CONCEPT OF SENSORY UNIVERSE   Two weeks ago I started to experience a compression of the maxillary branch of the left trigeminal nerve. Let me tell…

To celebrate my 1st anniversary writing for this site, I thought it time to update my biography here.  You'd think I'd have one ready, but in fact I can't stop with just one.  Having too…

As addressed in other posts, there is a significant difference between "selfishness" and "self-interest".  However, it seems that there is still a general insistence on perpetuating the…

"Why three families ? Why the particular symmetry structure ? [...] If the Higgs particle turns out to exist as conventionally described, with a reasonably low mass (say less than 200 GeV) then that…

Sorry to take the wind out of your sales, parents who use Andrew Wakefield's 1998 paper on MMR vaccine as the cause of their child's autism. Here are three related stories in the news: BBC Bloomberg…

    This time the idea of teleporting matter existed only in science fiction and the dense equations of quantum theory. As a result of experiments conducted in Europe since then,…

Is Homeopathy Good For The British Economy? The UK's National Health Service, the NHS, is funded from taxation. A committee of MPs is to produce a report soon regarding NHS spending on homeopathic…

Preliminary research published this week in JAMA indicates that decreased levels of serotonin  and tryptophan hydroxylase in the brainstem are associated with an increased risk for sudden infant…

A 60-million-year-old relative of crocodiles named Cerrejonisuchus improcerus ("small crocodile from Cerrejon") was likely a food source for Titanoboa, the largest snake the world has ever known,…

By considering molecular-level events on a broader scale, researchers now have a clearer and more complicated picture of how one class of immune cells goes wrong when loaded with cholesterol. The…

A theory-based, abstinence-only intervention appears to be associated with a lower rate of sexual involvement among African American sixth- and seventh-graders and can be combined with other…

The 'primordial soup' theory--which posits that early life began in a soup of organic molecules before evolving out of the oceans millions of years later--is fatally flawed, according to researchers…

Whether people will indulge or be prudent with their money is not necessarily based on personality type or education, but may be strongly influenced by advertising and other environmental cues,…