Epidemiological studies have shown that some oral contraceptives are less effective at preventing pregnancy in obese women until an 'effective blood concentration' has been reached, meaning there is…

Netflix launched its million dollar contest—improve their movie rating prediction system by 10%—nearly three years ago, and like most computer science graduate students, I downloaded the data and got…

Disclaimer: As a Naturalist and Scientist these are my observations. This may be disturbing to some people as they may have to think of cause and effect. Somewhere in Asia they are laughing…

Yesterday I wrote how Anthony Wesley, who hails from Canberra, Australia, grabbed this shot of a new dark spot near the south pole of Jupiter. It's left to bigger minds (and bigger telescopes)…

Researchers writing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences say they have discovered that the sea lamprey, which emerged from jawless fish first appearing 500 million years ago,…

Mayo Clinic investigators say a proof-of-concept study has demonstrated that induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells can be used to treat heart disease.  iPS cells are stem cells converted from…

As silly as it may look, I am going to start this post by publishing for the third time in a row the same figure. That is because I want to keep the promise I made earlier that I would explain in…

We could have made a killing off the previous administration...  Credit: toothpaste for dinner.

Neanderthals were stoutly-built and human-like and lived at the same time and in the same areas as some modern humans.  But they went extinct. Anthropologists have tried to solve the mystery of…

Stars don't die without being noticed and sometimes the results are pretty spectacular.  At the end of its life cycle, a star begins to collapse and throws new material into space, which…

How evolution can bridge the gap between two discrete physiological states is a question that puzzles biologists and therefore delights critics. Most evolutionary changes happen in tiny increments;…

Ever say someone's actions were 'in their genes'?   That's not only a simplification, according to a group of University of Iowa scientists, scientists who have debated nature versus nurture for…

Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, which describes how the gravity of a massive object like a star can curve space and time, has been successfully used to predict the bending of…

Americans used more solar, nuclear, biomass and wind energy in 2008 than they did in 2007, according to energy flow charts released by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and less coal and…

The Voynich Manuscript : An Enigma, Part #3 The Voynich manuscript, Beinebecke Library's MS 408 is a handwritten parchment codex of about 240 pages measuring 225 x 160 mm.   The manuscript…

Who doesn't need a little more widsom in their daily lives? Well, now you can have it, thanks to a real-time Twitter-like search engine that "looks to organize and share information and 'wisdom'…

According to a recent poll by the National Sleep Foundation, 27 percent of Americans say economic concerns are keeping them awake at night. But it may not be just stress.  According to the poll,…

One of the major obstacles in widespread use hydrogen as a clean energy alternative is hydrogen storage. Solid-state storage, using solid materials such as metals that absorb hydrogen and release it…

40 years ago,  July 20, 1969,  Apollo 11 Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to land on the moon, making the U.S. last to start but first to finish in the…

A study by the University of Barcelona (UB) has analysed which facial features our brain examines to identify faces. Our brain adapts in order to obtain the maximum amount of information possible…