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Joe Walsh Needs To Check His Facts Because Pregnancy Does Still Kill Women
A Republican congressman's claim that advances in science and technology mean pregnancy no longer threatens a woman's life and health doesn't stand up to scientific scrutiny. In fact, conditions...
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Unfortunately, The Five Second Rule Just Isn't True
Not familiar with the five-second rule? Well congratulations for being the most hygienic person here. For those uninitiated, the five-second rule is the belief that food can hit the floor for up to...
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Scientists Found A Link Between Creativity And Mental Illness
A new, large-scale study has confirmed a long-standing cliche about moody artists, writers, and others working in creative professions: they're more likely to receive treatment for a mental illness....
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NASA Is Creating Its Own 'Iron Man' Space Suit
The brilliant minds at NASA are at it again with a futuristic space suit reminiscent of the bad-guy-fighting garb donned by Marvel Comics' Iron Man. The X1, like similar load-bearing exoskeletons, can...
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Scientists Link Deadly Earthquake To Drilling Wells
MADRID (AP) — Farmers drilling ever deeper wells over decades to water their crops likely contributed to a deadly earthquake in southern Spain last year, a new study suggests. The findings may add to...
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Researchers Admit That Flu Shots Might Not Actually Work In Everyone
Every year around this time, 120 million Americans roll up their sleeves to get their annual flu shots. Since 2010, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended yearly jabs for...
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There's Now Even More Proof That Pesticides Seriously Harm Bees
Here we go again. Yet more research has been published in the world's most prestigious, peer-reviewed journals showing that extremely widely-used pesticides have very damaging effects on bees, yet the...
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Beluga Whale Has The Special Talent Of Speaking Like A Human
Move over, Moby Dick. Scientists have found a white whale capable of imitating human speech. These findings, the first to show that whales can mimic the voices of humans, suggest that researchers...
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Dung Beetles Use Their Poop Balls To Keep Their Feet Cool
Dung beetles can use balls of poo much like air-conditioning units to cool themselves, researchers say. Dung beetles roll up nutritious balls of excrement up to 50 times heavier than their own bodies...
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Physical Exercise Is Best To Keep Your Brain Sharp In Old Age
Regular physical exercise appears to protect the brain from shrinking, an otherwise natural process in old age that is associated with memory and thinking problems. Conversely, mentally and socially...
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Puberty For Girls Is Now Starting Five Years Earlier Than It Did In 1920
In the late 1980s, Marcia Herman-Giddens was working in a paediatric clinic at Duke University Medical Centre in North Carolina when she noticed a puzzling phenomenon. More and more girls aged eight...
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This Rainbow-Colored Sparkly Worm Will Give You Nightmares
If Hell’s a glittery rainbow party of terror, you’ll find this guy having post-drinks in the pub at 10am. This is Eunice aphroditois, otherwise known as a bobbit worm. Apparently around 20 years ago,...
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When Our Megacities Swell Into Gigalopolises We Will Face Some Big Problems
This article arises from Future Tense, a partnership of Slate, the New America Foundation, and Arizona State University. On the evening of Wednesday, Oct. 24, Future Tense and Scientific American will...
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A Rare Star Explosion Exposed A Hidden Black Hole
Astronomers have spotted a rare X-ray star explosion near the center of our Milky Way galaxy, revealing a previously unknown black hole munching on gas from a neighboring sun-like star. NASA's Swift...
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New Size Estimates Predict How Much Earth's Glaciers Could Raise Sea Level
The relatively small glaciers that drape the planet's mountains will play an important role in future sea level rise, according to a new study that estimated glaciers' collective size. Researchers...
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Rat Brains On A Microchip Could Help Cure Alzheimer's
A new microchip device that contains living brain and circulatory cells is designed to act like one tiny part of the human brain, leading the chip's creators to dub the device a "brain-on-a-chip."...
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Scientifically Speaking, A 100-Year-Old Man Can Father A Child
The world's oldest new dad, who, at the reported age of 96, just fathered a baby boy in India, says he's done having kids. But if he wanted to break his record again in a couple years, would biology...
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Puppies, Like Kids, Learn To Catch Yawns As They Grow Up
Watching someone else yawn can be a one-way ticket to doing the same. Now, research finds that the same is true for dogs — but not puppies. In fact, dogs become more susceptible to the contagion of...
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The Nazi Buddha From Space Might Actually Be A Fake
The narrative was, perhaps, just a little too good to be true. When news broke last month of the so-called "buddha from space" — a swastika-emblazoned statue, apparently 1,000 years old, that had been...
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Mars Isn't Dry And Dusty — It Has Seasonal Water Flows
The tantalizing seasonal flows observed on Mars last year may indeed be caused by liquid water, a new study suggests. The melting and subsequent evaporation of frozen salty water could cause the...
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