Obama unveiled his brain-mapping project that could point to potentially new strategies to help deal with illnesses including Alzheimer's disease, epilepsy and autism.
Astronomers have witnessed and imaged Supernova 1987A, one of the brightest exploding stars, in unprecedented detail.
Autism awareness starts off the month of April by launching Autism Speaks, the world's leading autism science and advocacy organization, which hopes to do more than just launch its fourth-annual Light It Up Blue (LIUB) campaign, a global initiative to raise funds and increase awareness.
Pharmaceutical pollution may be wreaking havoc on wildlife in freshwater streams.
Pattycake, the first gorilla born in New York City, died at the age of 40 at the Wildlife Conservation Society. She suffered from chronic cardiac problems, reports The Associated Press.
For many years, researchers have been fascinated with the ability of geckos to maintain a grip on trees and leaves in their wet natural habitats. But not much was known about how these reptiles managed to cling on to wet surfaces.
Unless agricultural policies change, Lake Erie will continue to experience massive algal blooms that can cause devastating consequences for aquatic wildlife.
A study conducted by researchers at the Northeastern University and Harvard University observed the effects of meditation on compassion and righteous behavior.
For the first time the researchers at the Brigham Young University have focused on the other side of the equation to find out whether obesity leads to physical inactivity.
According to researchers, for those who were prescribed the drug statin to maintain low cholesterol levels, discontinuing it posed serious heart problems. But doctors told the patients to continue with the drug and try other statins or a lowered dose.
Women who eat walnuts one to three times a month have a reduced risk of type 2 diabetes by 4 percent, and those who have walnuts once a week reduce the risk by 13 percent. In addition, risk of type 2 diabetes reduced to 24 percent in those who ate walnuts twice a week.
Listening to music has direct effects on our body chemistry, it can lower the level of the stress hormone cortisol, while immunoglobulin A and killer cell counts increase, strengthening our immune system.
