advertisement
Top Science News
October 14, 2018

Researchers have examined the youngest-ever specimen of tylosaur ever found. Like orcas, mosasaurs might have used their bony noses to strike ... read more
Archaeologists found the remains of a 10-year-old child with a stone inserted into his or her mouth at a fifth-century Italian cemetery. They think the stone was meant to keep the child from rising ... read more
Researchers were able to produce healthy mice with two mothers that went on to have normal offspring of their own. Mice from two dads were also born ... read more
The unexpectedly gentle death of a massive star suggests that it was being robbed by a dense companion lurking out of ... read more
Latest Top Headlines
updated 5:40pm EDT

Health News
October 14, 2018

A research team tested study participants on how many faces they could recall from their personal lives and the media, as well as the number of ... read more
Peripheral nerve injuries leave people with tingling, numbness and weakness in their arms, hands and legs. Researchers have developed an implantable, bioabsorbable device that speeds recovery in rats ... read more
Planned intermittent fasting may help to reverse type 2 diabetes, suggest doctors after three patients in their care, who did this, were able to cut ... read more
Researchers have developed two new illusions that reveal how the senses can influence each other -- in particular, how sound can give rise to visual illusions. These illusions occur so quickly that ... read more
Latest Health Headlines
updated 5:40pm EDT

Physical/Tech News
October 14, 2018

Astronomers have now found the explanation to a recent mystery at the center of the Milky Way galaxy: the high levels of scandium discovered last spring near the galaxy's giant black hole were in ... read more
A location often earmarked as a potential habitat for extra-terrestrial life could prove to be a tricky place for spacecraft to land, new research has ... read more
Researchers have analyzed the composition and structure of faraway exoplanets using statistical tools. Their analysis indicates whether a planet is earth-like, made up of pure rock or a water-world. ... read more
In string theory, a paradigm shift could be imminent. In June, a team of string theorists published a conjecture which sounded revolutionary: String theory is said to be fundamentally incompatible ... read more
Latest Physical/Tech Headlines
updated 5:40pm EDT

Environment News
October 14, 2018

After millions of years living in darkness, a species of blind cavefish has lost an ancient system of DNA repair. That DNA repair system, found in organisms including bacteria, fungi, plants, and ... read more
A new study quantifies how food production and consumption affects the planetary boundaries that describe a safe operating space for humanity beyond which Earth's vital systems could become ... read more
Why share food with non-family members when there is no immediate gain? An international team of researchers conducted observations of natural food sharing behavior of the chimpanzees of the Tai ... read more
A project by a research agency of the US Department of Defense could easily be misused for developing biological weapons, according to ... read more
Latest Environment Headlines
updated 5:40pm EDT

Society/Education News
October 14, 2018

The 2018 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel is being awarded to William D. Nordhaus "for integrating climate change into long-run macroeconomic analysis" and Paul ... read more
Many migrant children separated from their parents at the U.S. border, some of them very young, have landed in shelters where they often experience stress, neglect and minimal social and cognitive ... read more
Using newly refined analysis methods, scientists have discovered that a North Korean nuclear bomb test last fall set off aftershocks over a period of eight months. The shocks, which occurred on a ... read more
Egoism, Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy, sadism, spitefulness are all traits that stand for the malevolent dark sides of human personality. Results from a recent project show, these traits ... read more
Latest Society/Education Headlines
updated 5:40pm EDT