Your ability to resist that tempting cookie depends on how a big a threat you perceive it to be, according to a study in the Journal of Consumer Research. University of Texas researchers studied…

University of Toronto quantum optics researchers have discovered new behaviors of light within photonic crystals that could lead to faster optical information processing and compact computers that…

The stereotype of the nerdy computer scientist who stays up all night coding and has no social life may be driving women away from the field, and  this stereotype can be brought to mind based…

Even though the FDA doesn't actually know how many underage smokers choose flavored cigarettes, a new study claims that thrill-seeking teenagers are especially susceptible to fruit-flavored…

Often promoted as a 'clean-burning' alternative to gasoline that could help break our oil addiction, ethanol would likely worsen health problems caused by ozone, especially in winter, according to…

According to four studies appearing in the latest issue of the Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, the plumbing that feeds the Yellowstone supervolcano shows a plume of molten rock rising…

Daniel Tammet is an autistic savant and author of the recent book Embracing the Wide Sky: A Tour Across the Horizons of the Mind (Free Press). You may have heard of him. For example, most people…

The question on everyone’s lips is “Why?” Why did someone like Tiger Woods, who had so much to lose, do what he did? Because he could? Because he didn’t care?We’ll never really know until the Oprah…

The question on everyone’s lips is “Why?” Why did someonelike Tiger Woods, who had so much to lose, do what he did? Because he could? Because he didn’t care? We’ll never really know until the Oprah…

COP15: Senior US official maps vision for new energy future at UN climate change summit 11 December 2009 The international agreements being negotiated in Copenhagen “will propel all of us forward in…

PM Manmohan Singh, Wen may skip Copenhagen Nitin Sethi, TNN 14 December 2009, 06:00am ISTText Size:|Topics:Kyoto greenhouse COPENHAGEN: At 55 degrees and 43 minutes north, the winter sun sets early…

GRAND FORKS, N.D. & BELLINGHAM, Wash. - (Business Wire) The Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) Foundation and Whole Energy Fuels Corporation, headquartered in Bellingham,…

A small segment of scientists are not in favor of skepticism; primarily if it happens to be in their discipline.   But a group of cancer researchers welcomes it and asks for even more. Writing…

India resists pressure to go beyond Kyoto protocol COPENHAGEN: India has opposed any amendment to the Kyoto protocol at the Copenhagen Climate meet as the EU pushed for an agreement that is "broader"…

Climate talks: India against amending Kyoto Protocol Buzz Up Share Twitter Delicious Myspace Digg Stumble Upon Facebook Sun, Dec 13 05:04 PM Betwa Sharma Copenhagen, Dec 13 (PTI) India…

You are in a game show with nineteen other players. You don't know the other players, you can't see them, and you can't communicate with them. The game you are in is called 'Greed!', and is…

New nanosensors can measure cancer biomarkers in whole blood for the first time, according to an article Nature Nanotechnology, and that could dramatically simplify the way physicians test for…

The gases which formed the Earth's atmosphere and probably its oceans did not come from inside the Earth but from outer space, according to a study by University of Manchester and University of…

Creativity seems to be the "buzz word" of the 2000s. Society values it, companies need it, and employers want it. Or do they? What society claims to want and what is actually rewarded in practice are…

Found this article in Dissent magazine interesting: "Is Obama's War in Afghanistan Just?" by Michael Walzer. The core of Walzer's argument is that the decision to go to war inAfghanistan in 2001 was…