Fantasies shouldn't be confused with wishes or behaviors. conrado/Shutterstock By Christian Joyal, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR) Can we use unusual sexual fantasies to identify sexual…

Dietary masochists say you should endure the most difficult brown bread imaginable because 1,000 years ago people had no choice. It's vaguely healthier, we are all told, though if you read more than…

We're being overrun with Big Data and that has created a need to increase computing and networking power to make it possible to manage the vast amount of information available. Toward that goal, a…

Plasmid DNA attached to the outer surface of a sounding rocket may be able to withstand rocket launch, a period of residence in suborbital space, re-entry, and landing conditions into the Earth's…

Drinking 3-5 cups of coffee per day has been linked to protection against Alzheimer's Disease, according to a new review of studies. The number of people in Europe aged over 65 is predicted to rise…

A clinical trial compared three alternative treatments for type 1 diabetes and confirms that an external artificial pancreas improves glucose control and reduces the risk of hypoglycemia compared…

Diet is not only a matter of personal choice. Clay Caviness, CC BY-ND By Stanley Blue, University of Manchester and Elizabeth Shove, Lancaster University Diseases linked to smoking tobacco, a lack of…

Tomorrow I will be eating and science will barely be on my mind. It will be on some minds. Some people will be trying to find a creative way to make vegan turkey, or free-range stuffing, and…

The van der Waals force, named after Dutch chemist Johannes Diderik van der Waals, is the total forces between molecules not due due to covalent bonds. The famous sticking power of the geckos is…

Roof-top solar panels are just one part of the micropower revolution. Presidency Maldives, CC BY-NC By Morgan Saletta, University of Melbourne There is no shortage of shouting and dire warnings about…

In metals like copper and aluminium, conduction electrons move around freely, in the same way as particles in a gas or a liquid. But when impurities are introduced into the metal's crystal…

In a famous mathematical thought experiment, the goal is to make randomness deterministic by closed-form equation, so mathematicians tried to determine the path of a 'drunken sailor' staggering…

Necessity may be the mother of invention, at least if war is a necessity. And perhaps it is. In the early days of humanity, survival was a combination of hardiness, keen engineering and intelligence…

It's not in the bones, but it might not be in the brain either. X-ray image by Shutterstock By Andreas Goebel, University of Liverpool One in five of us has been experiencing chronic pain over the…

I submitted an article with simple calculations where the "short-distance physics" is integrated out automatically rather than "manually". http://arxiv.org/abs/1409.8326 Happy reading! Abstract: I…

For a short window, it appeared that bees were dying off. Environmentalist were quick to blame a new kind of pesticide, Neonicotinoids, known in short form as neonics, but then it turned out that the…

If you don't put a piece of tape over your webcam, get used to being watched. adafruit, CC BY-NC-SA By Gordon Fletcher, University of Salford The UK Information Commissioner Christopher Graham has…

Usually blind sages revealing the secrets of the universe are Asian. Scotland doesn't get enough respect that way but a centipede is defying the stereotype. Arthropods are one of Earth's real success…

While an alarming number of wealthy people think organic food contains no chemicals, the opposite is true. Not only is everything chemical, the most organic of organic Thanksgiving meals is stuffed…

People know that antibiotics won't help viruses. So why ask doctors for antibiotics? Subbotina Anna/Shuttstock By David Broniatowski, George Washington University; Eili Klein, Johns Hopkins…