Ocean Currents in the South Asian Archipelago The losses of AirAsia QX8501 and Malaysia Airlines MH370 are tragic.  I hope that the relatives may find some comfort in the knowledge that their…

Could climate change be making flying more unsafe? KamrenB Photography, CC BY By Todd Lane, University of Melbourne On December 28, AirAsia flight QZ8501 crashed into the sea between Indonesia and…

There is no more important universal problem in the Standard Model of elementary particles than the problem of mass and mixing flavor hierarchies. The mainstream theoretical approach for treating it…

By studying the motions of different stellar populations in the disk of the Andromeda galaxy, researchers have deduced that Andromeda has had a more violent past than our Milky Way.  The…

It won't exactly set off a Blu-ray versus HD-DVD cultural firestorm, but there is an alternative to 3-D printing. And it's better in many ways.  Pop-up assembly relies on compression buckling.…

Games have been test beds for new ideas in Artificial Intelligence (AI) since computers came on the scene and there have been significant milestones - Deep Blue sort of defeated Kasparov in chess and…

In an interstellar race against time, astronomers measured the space-time warp in the gravity of a binary star and determined the mass of a neutron star just before it vanished from view. The…

Up close and personal with the demon shrimp. Amaia Green Etxabe - University of Portsmouth By Alex Ford,University of Portsmouth Demon vs killer shrimp sounds like the latest CGI movie to come out of…

80 percent of current coal reserves, 50 percent of gas reserves and 33 percent of oil reserves should remain in the ground by 2050 to avoid the 2°C target established by the Intergovernmental Panel…

A new report by the National Research Council offers guidance to schools on necessary steps for putting the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) into practice over the next decade. Next…

Air Asia 8501 - Tail To Be Raised The recently located tail of Air Asia flight 8501 is to be raised according to reports by Detik News. The Flight Data Recorder (FDR) and the Cockpit Voice Recorder…

David Pope's cartoon posted on Twitter. David Pope By Robert Phiddian, Flinders University Cartoonists and satirists in “the West” are confronted with the risks of their expressive freedom today as a…

You may feel safe working at the coffee house because you are not using their public Wi-Fi connection. Think again. And that smartphone is even more vulnerable to snooping. The new breed of coffee…

Dogs successfully migrated to the Americas about 10,000 years ago, according to a new study. That's a long time ago but still thousands of years after the first human migrants crossed the land bridge…

Whether you are a a hipster in Montreal or a Pygmy in the Congolese rainforest, certain aspects of music will touch you the same way. That applies to scores we associates with very different films,…

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Is artificial super-intelligence lurking nearby, under wraps? eugenia_loli, CC BYBy Tony Prescott, University of Sheffield The possibility that advanced artificial intelligence (AI) might one day…

A study of circadian rhythms in skin stem cells finds that this biological clock plays a key role in coordinating daily metabolic cycles and cell division. The paper shows how the body's intrinsic…

Rock soil droplets formed by heating are part of the evidence used to content that a disastrous cosmic impact 12,900 years ago triggered the Younger Dryas cold period but they most likely instead…

Spores on the conidiophores of the fungus Penicillium notatum. Dr. Fred Hossler/Visuals Unlimited/Corbis We used to recycle patient urine - to get penicillin. Why? Because in 1940, during a World War…