COROT has found the smallest terrestrial planet ever detected outside the Solar System. The amazing planet is less than twice the size of Earth and orbits a Sun-like star. Its temperature is so high…

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine are one gene closer to understanding schizophrenia and related disorders. Schizophrenia is a varied condition with a number of symptoms…

Green tea products have become regarded as a valuable health supplement and studies have shown evidence of its benefit against a variety of diseases, including cancer.   In animal studies, an…

Gardening can offer enough moderate physical activity to keep older adults in shape but Kansas State researchers writing in the journal HortScience say that among the other health benefits of…

A study reveals that the severity of learning disorders may depend not only on the child's environment but also on the mother's environment when she was young. The researchers studied the brain…

A new testosterone patch, designed to pep up a woman's flagging sex drive after womb and ovary removal, may not work, and its long term safety is not proven, says the Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin…

I should be able to get this Hollywood movie made in two paragraphs.   ***** A likable rogue-ish historian ( Hank Campbell, only in tweed, we might describe him, Harrison Ford being a little…

Charles Darwin wrote in 1835 about the Galapagos Islands: "September 15th — This archipelago consists of ten principal islands, of which five exceed the others in size. They are situated…

Show Me The Science Month Day 7 The birth of new species always involves a barrier to cross-breeding between two different groups of the same species. This barrier may start out as a geographical…

When most of us, especially in the SB community, think of supercomputers we usually think of large-scale hydrodynamics or fusion reaction simulations which stretch our knowledge of the universe and…

If you have not already chosen your new love, researchers suggest you stay away from those with big chins as they have a tendency to cheat. Researchers from four universities across the US and Canada…

Throughout history, scientists, philosophers, mathematicians and Phd students lacking funding for actual research have turned to the thought experiment in hopes of discovering something publishable,…

This morning I woke up to read this in the Daily Telegraph: Can we please forget about Charles Darwin? As we celebrate Charles Darwin's anniversary, a leading geneticist argues that our…

A study by UC Davis researchers published in  Archives of Pediatric&Adolescent Medicine has found that most of the healthy children and teenagers in the United States who are taking daily…

Scientists today announced the discovery of 10 amphibians believed to be new to science, including a spiky-skinned, orange-legged rain frog, three poison dart frogs and three glass frogs, so called…

The idea of ecosystem services is a promising conservation concept but has been rarely put into practice. In  Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, researchers have created a tool they say…

Adolescents and young adults who are heavy users of marijuana are more likely than non-users to have disrupted brain development, according to a new study. Pediatric researchers found abnormalities…

If you care about the environment, you probably have become familiar with the phrase 'food miles' - along with production methods, it has become a key factor in what environmentally conscious people…

Most animals, like humans, have separate sexes.  We are born, live out our lives and reproduce as one sex or the other, but some animals live as one sex in part of their lifetime and then switch…

Sliced light is how we communicate now. Millions of phone calls and cable television shows per second are dispatched through fibers in the form of digital zeros and ones formed by chopping laser…