A  team at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne has won an international artificial intelligence competition by creating software that can play the famous video game "Angry Birds" like a…

A 34 centimeter diameter spherical flying robot does things that probably don't make sense to most people. Rather than avoiding obstacles, it bumps into and then ricochets off of them - its world is…

Occupational, recreational and environmental noise exposure poses a serious public health threat going far beyond hearing damage, according to a new review in The Lancet. The analysis team examined…

Since their invention, antibiotics have made it possible to cure lethal bacterial infections but in recent years the efficacy of antibiotics has been drastically reduced due to overuse and…

People who live in regions where there is a real change of seasons know that plants go 'dormant' in the winter and then spring to life again as the weather warms. But a new study found a counter…

A new psychology paper has found that, ethically, we get worn down over the course of a day. Our ability to avoid cheating or lying gets significantly reduced, making us more likely to be dishonest…

It's not correlation-causation but a new study has found that, among those with mental illnesses, left-handers are far more likely to suffer from psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia. …

I have written a lot about how I think the biggest problem in science communication today is the disproportionate value we place on where papers are published when assessing the validity and import…

Though the largest Sperm whales weigh up to 50 tons and and the smallest bat barely reaches a gram, they share something in common. They both use echolocation, biological sonar, for hunting.…

Thermal infrared (IR) energy is emitted from all things which have a temperature greater than absolute zero - so, basically all things worth looking at. Though mechanical detection of IR radiation…

If you read mainstream media in 2013, you will learn that wheat and sugar are trying to kill you. It's better not to take them too seriously. While science tends to be rather rigorous in its claims -…

29% of large clinical trials remain unpublished five years after completion and, of those, 78% have no results publicly available, according to a paper published yesterday. This means that an…

Halloween is just around the corner, but if you live in California, like me, they aren't doing anything fun. They can't even call it Halloween. So though when you were a kid you might have learned…

Halloween is just around the corner, but if you live in California, like me, they aren't doing anything fun. They can't even call it Halloween. So though when you were a kid you might have learned…

Women can tell when someone's eyes aren't on her face and are instead looking at her body - because it happens all of the time. Men do it ... and so do other women. At least when they are in college.…

Humpback dolphin swimming in the waters off northern Australia are a new species   previously unknown to science, according to a team of researchers  To determine the number of distinct…

In 1855, a specimen of the brain of mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss was taken and preserved. But the over 150-year-old slice of his brain, which scientists had long been…

One argument for putting a halt to government spending billions of dollars doing Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) 'outreach' is that, like all government programs, they become self…

After oxygen in the atmosphere and ocean rose about 600 million years ago, earth got the first proliferation of animal life. Between then and now, numerous short lived biotic events took place when…

Do you remember the dijet bump at 140 GeV that CDF published in March 2011 ? This was a surprising excess in the mass distribution of pairs of jets found in events containing a leptonic W boson decay…