In the largest and longest study to date of weight loss maintenance strategies, researchers at Duke University Medical Center found that personal contact – and, to a lesser extent, a computer-based…

Rather than improving motorist safety, red-light cameras significantly increase crashes and are a ticket to higher auto insurance premiums, researchers at the University of South Florida College of…

Scientists have discovered epigenetic changes (i.e. chemical changes to a gene that do not alter the DNA sequence) in individuals with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. This is the first epigenome…

Science has developed sophisticated models of the atmosphere and instruments can help make detailed weather forecasts but to truly understand global climate change, scientists need more than just a…

These pictures are actually a couple months old, but I just saw them for the first time. They are pretty amazing, and even more so when you realize that no one got killed. "Etihad was to receive…

Snakes don't eat fugu, the seafood delicacy prepared from blowfish meat and famed for its poisonous potential. However, should a common garter snake wander into a sushi restaurant, it could…

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland have developed a new optical method that can detect individual neutrons and record them over a…

A researcher at the National University in San Diego has taken a mathematical approach to a biological problem - how to design a portable DNA detector. Samuel Afuwape, Applied Engineering professor,…

The growth in China's carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions is far outpacing previous estimates, making the goal of stabilizing atmospheric greenhouse gases much more difficult, according to a new analysis…

An international group of researchers has found evidence for the earliest transport use of the donkey and the early phases of donkey domestication, suggesting the process of domestication may have…

At the end of "Back To The Future", Doc shows up wearing futuristic clothes and possessing a swanky new addition to his DeLorean - a "Mr. Fusion" device so that he no longer required the Plutonium…

Since the reporting of the so-called “hobbit” fossil from the island of Flores in Indonesia, debate has raged as to whether these remains are of modern humans (Homo sapiens), reduced, for some reason…

The universe as we currently know it is made up of three physical dimensions of space and a relative one of time, but researchers in the Department of Physics and the Department of Electrical and…

Astronomers at the University of Rochester have announced that low-mass stars and possibly even super-Jupiter-sized planets may be responsible for creating some of the most breathtaking objects in…

High-energy physicists devoted to recreating the conditions at the beginning of the universe have for the first time observed a new way to produce those basic particles of atoms, protons and neutrons…

When exotic species invade new territory, they often present a major threat to the other plants and animals living there, that much is clear, but in addition to their destructive tendencies, invasive…

Using a virtual pendulum and its real-world counterpart, scientists at the University of Illinois have created the first mixed reality state in a physical system. Through bi-directional instantaneous…

Video games such as Second Life give users the freedom to create characters in the digital domain that look and seem more human than ever before but while they can have your hair or your hazel eyes,…

New research suggests that humans are not as fooled as they seem when viewing visual illusions. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Psychologist Tzvi Ganel, writing in the March issue of Psychological…

"I’ll take a burger and fries, hold the fluoride.” Fluoride? Serious scientists, who look, find fluoride in the darnedest places. Researchers from the University of Indiana School of Dentistry report…