With only one week left before sequestration is to take effect, America’s research community sustained its call for an end to the across-the-board cuts to discretionary spending that will severely restrict the nation’s ability to invest in the basic scientific research that drives innovation and...
Robert C. Richardson, a Cornell University professor who shared a 1996 Nobel Prize for an important contribution in experimental physics, died Thursday at a nursing home in Ithaca, N.Y.
A photographer saw the fight break out in Tanzania, according to reports, and caught the spontaneous brawl inside Serengeti National Park this week, according to Yahoo! News. The Savannah cat fight broke out just as the sun was coming up, and the dominant male lion from one of the groups made his wa...
You might not be able to describe that kind of comfort when consuming crap like pre-made lunchmeat or soda. According to the New York Times Magazine investigative piece, "The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food," the long-time scheme played by snack food artists and beverage makers is a ma...
In an effort to build a next generation of super-colliders to gain ever deeper insights into the fundamental mechanisms of the universe, and especially to examine the properties of the Higgs-like particle that was discovered by the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva last year, a new partnership called ...
Poisoned mice will be dropped from helicopters onto Guam's jungle canopy.
Bioengineers from the University of California, San Diego have demonstrated a new injectable hydrogel that can repair damage from heart attacks, help the heart grow new tissue and blood vessels, and get the heart moving closer to how a healthy heart should in a study in pigs.
Researchers have found a new compound can kill the deadly influenza virus.
Friday is the perfect day for a drink with friends. Even better, today celebrates a time when it's ok to actually get wasted. That's right, folks-it's National Margarita Day.
Evolution may have given humans a unique brain structure that gave them a leg up over other primates--are we really surprised?
A clinical study with a German retinal implant chip successfully demonstrated the artificial restoration of vision with this technology for the first time. The light sensitive electronic chip that is implanted under the dysfunctional retina of people who became blind due to disease has an array of 1...
A robotic bat wing could help researchers unlock the secrets of flapping flight.
