Tea flavors changing with shifting rainfall patterns
Tea is the most widely consumed beverage in the world after water. In the United States, tea purchases have increased…
Mis-synced music proves to be a powerful enhancement for TV ads
It turns out that offsetting the music soundtrack of TV adverts by an imperceptible amount makes the adverts significantly more…
Stark gender differences in art appreciation revealed
The market for art is worth US$65B worldwide but there has been little research conducted on how consumers actually determine…
Near-death experiences: new study finds evidence to back anecdotal claims
A four-year international study of 2,060 cardiac arrest cases in 15 hospitals in the United Kingdom, United States, and Austria…
This is your brain on dogs
How closely does the relationship between people and their dogs mirror the parent-child relationship? A new study has been investigating…
Autoimmune diseases linked to adolescent marijuana use
Medical researchers from the Universita degli Studi di Milano (Italy) say that exposure to marijuana during adolescence can seriously affect…
Unusual carbon-based molecule detected 27,000 light years away
Astronomers have discovered an unusual carbon-based molecule – isopropyl cyanide – in the gaseous star-forming region Sagittarius B2. The discovery,…
Spacesuits get skintight makeover
To provide better freedom of movement for astronauts, MIT scientists are designing a skintight spacesuit that uses shape-memory alloys to…
Medicos find more evidence of baldness and prostate cancer link
A new study, published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, lends weight to the notion that male pattern baldness and…
Strangely, the loss of forests may actually be cooling the planet
An intriguing study from Yale University shows that large-scale forest losses over the last 150 years – largely through the…
Scientists demo first direct brain-to-brain communication between humans
Using non-invasive techniques, an international team of researchers have demonstrated direct brain-to-brain communication between two human subjects located 5,000 miles…
Quantum camera takes pic using only entangled photons
Using a new quantum imaging technique, a picture has been captured without the camera detecting the light that was used…
Less domestic violence for pot smoking marrieds
New research that examined incidences of domestic violence supports the view that marijuana use by couples decreases the likelihood of…
Viable ecosystems found in subglacial lake deep beneath West Antarctic Ice Sheet
Analysis of water samples taken from subglacial Lake Whillans – hidden beneath 2,600 feet of ice in Antarctica – has…
Largest ever self-organizing swarm of robots created
Harvard computer scientists have demonstrated how a self-organizing swarm of 1,024 small robots can collaborate to enact complex behaviors. According…
Japanese scientists hijack neural signaling to bypass spinal injuries
Spinal cord injuries that result in paraplegia may one day be treatable using a technique that bypasses the damaged neural…
Could tainted cookware be poisoning an entire continent?
Despite the ban on lead in gasoline, blood lead levels in African nations have remained stubbornly high. Now, researchers from…
Stunning photos of comet 67P at the end of Rosetta’s decade-long journey
After a 10 year journey, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft has rendezvoused with the 2.5 mile-wide comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko…
Flores’ “hobbit” not a new human species, say detractors
Back in 2004, the excavation of unusual skeletal remains in Liang Bua cave on the island of Flores yielded what…
Did feminization create modern humans?
Duke University anthropologists have been measuring more than 1,400 ancient and modern skulls, leading them to theorize that modern humans…
Physicists map quantum to classical collapse
Extracting information from a system as it collapses from a quantum state to a classical state was never considered possible…
Compelling new evidence for artificial lighting’s role in breast cancer
Scientists have found that for laboratory rats with human breast tumors, exposure to dim light at night made the tumors…
Locate alien civilizations by their pollution, suggest astrophysicists
Harvard-Smithsonian scientists speculate that little green men may not be “green” at all, and finding them might be a simple…
Prehistoric token “bookkeeping” persisted long into age of written language
An archaeological dig in Turkey has uncovered a large number of clay tokens that were used as records of trade…
New fossil interpretation challenges notion that birds are descended from dinosaurs
Re-examination of a sparrow-sized fossil from China has led researchers to challengethe commonly held belief that birds evolved from ground-dwelling…
Scientists uncover biggest-ever flying bird
The fossilized remains of an extinct giant bird with a wingspan of 24 feet place the creature above theoretical upper…
Biological basis for magic mushrooms’ mind-expansion revealed
For the first time, researchers have measured the level of entropy for different networks in the brain under the influence…
Antihistamines may be next blockbuster anti-cancer drug
Scientists have established a connection between two diseases that aren’t commonly linked: allergy and cancer. The new research, published in…
African music preferred by chimps
Chimpanzees like to listen to the different rhythms of music from Africa and India, but prefer silence to music from…
Software scans family photos to diagnose rare disorders
Software that scans and analyzes family snapshots could help doctors diagnose which rare genetic disorder a child is suffering from,…