When you take a shower and use soap and then lather, rinse and repeat twice with that shampoo, it gets washed off your body and goes down the drain. Environmentalists have claimed these soaps and…

After 24 hours of using Windows 10, as a tablet user, it is an incremental improvement on Windows 8.1.  The biggest improvement is that my Pro 3's WiFi now works without issues. Right now…

Evidence shows children are getting less unsupervised time outdoors. Credit: Brian Yap (葉)/Flickr, CC BY-NC By Shelby Gull Laird and Laura McFarland-Piazza Earlier this year, an American mother was…

Not the one we have fixed in our imaginations. Peter Paul Rubens, 1638 By Helen King, The Open University Hippocrates is considered the father of medicine, enemy of superstition, pioneer of…

Though it has been researched for decades, the cause of nodding syndrome, a disabling disease affecting African children, is unknown. A new report suggests that blackflies infected with the…

In third place, Oxford University is the top UK institution in the World University Rankings 2014-15. Image:  Andrew Matthews/PA Archive By Steven C. Ward, Western Connecticut State University…

Look at a fan rotating its blades. Now look somewhat to the side of it. It seems to rotate slower now. Now shift your gaze slowly back toward the center of the fan. The fan seems to pick up speed.…

Phytosaur: still got it. Credit: BFS Man, CC BY By Stephanie Drumheller, University of Tennessee; Michelle Stocker, Virginia Tech, and Sterling Nesbitt, Virginia Tech Some 220 million years ago, the…

Oh no – not that mistake again. Credit: Flickr/Alex Proimos, CC BY-NC By Will J Grant, Australian National University and Rod Lamberts, Australian National University UNDERSTANDING RESEARCH: What do…

Heart racing and fists shaking, I stood ready to fight. I was moments away from sparring with the top student in my karate class in Japan: a fast, coordinated monster who had defeated all…

An international team of astrophysicists has identified the most metal-poor stars in the Milky Way bulge. They present their findings in a paper published on Oct. 2. The scientists…

Like a plant that needs the right environment for it to grow healthy and bear fruits, FIER is believed to be more of use in a world that shares its supporting principles and theories.  That is…

Call it cathartic but one modern way people in a bad mood feel better is to go on social media like Facebook and find friends doing even worse. A new paper says that generally people use social…

A new study has found that lungs become more inflammatory with age and that ibuprofen can lower that inflammation - and the difference can be dramatic. Immune cells from old mouse lungs, after lung…

A few years ago, Susan Greenfield said something zany, even for Susan Greenfield: that the rise in autism diagnoses were related to the Internet. As Robery Olley once noted, she is the scholar who in…

The idea of evolutionary imbalance when it comes to invasive species is not new, Charles Darwin articulated it.  The concept is that species from regions with deep and diverse evolutionary…

Researchers recently used audio and video recording tools to record larval orientation behavior in the pelagic environment.  In their field experiment, the scientists put the recording…

Fibromyalgia is a symptom-based disorder that manifests itself as chronic pain. Its underlying causes are unknown. The results of a new study compares brain activity in individuals with and without…

Going, going, gone: wildlife like the loris are disappearing. Credit: N. A. Naseer, CC BY-NC-ND By Paul Jepson, University of Oxford Full marks to colleagues at the World Wildlife Fund and the…

Some sharks are more 'gregarious' than others and have strong social connections while others are solitary and prefer to remain inconspicuous. That's not an exception, according to a new study, these…