If we want to maximize creativity, tying cash to creative output is a bad idea. tanakawho/Flickr By Dan Hunter, Swinburne University of Technology Imagine you were asked to write a law that…

Neutrinos almost never interact, 10,000,000,000,000 neutrinos pass through your hand every second but fewer than one actually makes contact with any of the atoms inside us.  When neutrinos do…

The following is a guest post by David Orban, CEO at Dotsub, faculty and advisor at Singularity University, and trustee of Network Society Research. When I implanted an NFC chip in my left hand about…

Humans who eat a lot of red meat are known to be at higher risk for certain cancers but other carnivores are not, which is a bit of an epidemiological puzzle, mostly because cancer rates in animals…

I think it's time for a little snow - C.P.Snow, that is.   Charles Percy Snow was an English physical chemist, novelist and civil servant. He was Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of…

It's commonly said that moderate alcohol consumption is good for people, but no one knew why and the determination of moderate was arbitrary. A new study of 618 Swedes with coronary heart disease and…

It's never too late to start balancing the calorie ledger. rangizzz By Lee Hamilton, University of Stirling Like many high school students I completely misunderstood the philosopher Herbert Spencer’s…

Ready-to-eat desserts such as cakes, cookies, pies, doughnuts, and pastries add a significant amount of energy, sugar, and saturated fat to Americans' diets, making them a strategic target for…

In December 2014, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) released its highest-resolution geologic map of Mars. The new geologic and structural map uses the highest-resolution, orbiter-based images…

The enzyme signal peptide peptidase-like 3 (SPPL3) is known to 'cut' proteins - they cleave the peptide bonds in the polypeptides that make up proteins - but it turns out that it works to activate T-…

A new species of frog, Limnonectes larvaepartus, from the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia, does what no other frog does: It gives birth to live tadpoles instead of laying eggs. A member of the Asian…

Cardiovascular disease and the rather more vaguely-defined metabolic syndrome are major public health concerns throughout the developed world. A new paper in the European Journal of Preventive…

People who don't want to disappoint you and that are prone to guilt if things go wrong are the least likely to want to commit to a project - but they may be who you want on your team, because if they…

Nonsensical but oddly beautiful Bing and Google translations from Facebook posts in a variety of languages: 袁嘟嘟第一次以老公的身分參加部門聚會，泡完湯好舒服 Doodle Yuan to her husband's party participated in the sector…

Theories of everything in Physics by their nature need to be theories of almost anything. How can we call a theory which is so hard to test we can't test it, right now, science? George Ellis and Joe…

Pets play an important role in our social lives and they can act as catalysts for social interaction, previous research has shown, because pets often serve as "social lubricants." Although much…

Marcus Aurelius. By Robert S. Colter, University of Wyoming Marcus Aurelius (121-180 BC) was emperor of Rome at the height of its influence and power. One can only imagine the pressures that a…

Some people have the appearance of a young shape even as they age. Good genes and clean living, it is said. But the nature and nurture argument has a new companion - historical context - at least in…

A thin sheet of graphene wrapped around a new multifunctional sulfur electrode that combines an energy storage unit and electron/ion transfer networks could lead to a promising design for…

A new research effort is focused on nanostructured materials with biocompatible and antibacterial properties. Ana Maria Arizmendi Morquecho, scholar at the Research Center for Advanced Materials…