Imagine a car that can't get dirty or a business in Ferguson, Missouri that can't be graffiti'ed by unhinged protesters. It might be possible with a new class of highly fluorinated super-repellent…

The first Orion spacecraft launch is just days away, so the excitement grows in America for this maiden flight, which will pave the way for future U.S. deep space missions. When NASA asked people…

The Arctic Ocean sea ice cover emerged 2.6 million years ago - and it hasn't changed since. Not in all of the recurring warming cycles we have had and not even in 2006, when pundits predicted it…

Not as simple as black and white. Fred Bchx, CC BY-NC-SA By Ian Rickard, Durham University Evolutionary psychology, the field that uses the process of natural selection to provide a theoretical…

Igor Stepovik Shutterstock By Roxanne Connelly, University of Edinburgh The World Health Organisation has defined obesity in children as a major threat to public health and the UK government treats…

Making scents of it. MIAD Communication Design, CC BY-NC-SA By Simon Cotton, University of Birmingham There are two types of perfume in the world: the fast turnover celebrity perfumes, designed to…

A growing number of scholars are using social media data to write articles about both online and offline human behavior - it's cheap, it's as accurate as surveys if properly controlled, and no one…

Our culture tells women there's something wrong with them if they don't orgasm. Gustavo Gomes/Flickr, CC BY-NC By Sally Hunter, University of New England A recently published Italian study suggesting…

Yesterday I worked from scratch at a problem which certainly others have already solved in the past. I have mixed feelings with such situations: on one side I hate to reinvent the wheel, especially…

Shifting descriptions of schizophrenia. Shutterstock By Huw Green, City University of New York In an attempt to move away from the traditional language used to describe psychosis and schizophrenia,…

There’s really a more productive way to spend Black Friday instead of going berserk and storming the stores. A really huge crowd of 90,000 people capable of invading every bigger mall during the…

There is such a thing as 'too precise' when it comes to numbers. So what's appropriate? Erik Olsson, CC BY-NC-SA By Jonathan Borwein (Jon), University of Newcastle and David H. Bailey, University of…

How is this for the ultimate miniaturization of energy storage: A new tiny nanopore includes all the components of a battery though it is just is a tiny hole in a ceramic sheet that holds an…

This has as much in common with actual paleolithic culture as the paleolithic diet does. Flickr/George , CC BY-NC-SA By Darren Curnoe We still hear and read a lot about how a diet based on what our…

Kelly Abbott/Flickr, CC BY-NC By Tim Trudgian, Australian National University Consider a standard pizza box containing a standard circular pizza. How much more would you be willing to pay for a…

Evidence for role of cannabis in medicine does not strengthen argument for legalization. Thomas Hawk, CC BY-NC By Victoria Forster, Newcastle University Cannabis has long been touted as containing…

 have to warn everyone that there is going to be a little math at the start, but not much, only one easy equation that you need to have a sense of if you are going to understand what drugs that…

All right to start this post I have to warn everyone that there is going to be a little math at the start, but not much, only one easy equation that you need to have a sense of if you are going to…

The golden ratio is known as the divine proportion because it is found so often in nature. It has fascinated mathematicians since Euclid. A golden ratio is when the ratio of two numbers is the same…

Good news for Christmas party season: A new compound has been shown to reduce the harmful side-effects of ‘binge drinking’. It also has the potential for new ways to treat Alzheimer’s and other…