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Energy-Guzzling Cities Are Changing The Weather 1,000 Miles Away
The heat released by everyday activities in energy-guzzling cities is changing the weather in far-away places, scientists report today (Jan. 27).The released heat is changing temperatures in areas more...
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Team Recreating Shackleton's 1916 Antarctic Journey Makes Landfall
An exhausted British-Australian expedition recreating Ernest Shackleton's 1916 crossing of the Southern Ocean in a small boat made landfall after a perilous 12-day journey.Led by renowned adventurer...
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New Images Of The Fukushima Plant Right After The Tsunami
The shattered remains of a reactor building loom against a lowering sky, smoke or steam pouring from a gaping roof in the days after a huge tsunami smashed into Japan, crushing a nuclear power...
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Beer-Powered Brewery Saves $450,000 A Year
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Alaskan Brewing Co. is going green, but instead of looking to solar and wind energy, it has turned to a very familiar source: beer.The Juneau-based beer maker has installed a...
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Iran's Space Monkey 'Hoax' Was Actually Just A Media Mix Up
Was Iran engaging in monkey business when it claimed on Monday to have successfully fired a primate into space and brought it back alive? Despite several media reports in recent days casting doubts on...
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Researchers Have Just Found A New Type Of Fear
The patient known as S.M. has not experienced fear since she was a child, and has fascinated brain researchers for many years. In 2010, one team noted that she makes risky financial decisions in...
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A New Report Suggests That Neanderthals Died Out Earlier Than We Thought
Neanderthals may have died out earlier than before thought, researchers say.These findings hint that Neanderthals did not coexist with modern humans as long as previously suggested, investigators...
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Global Warming Is Making Extreme Rain Events More Likely
Rainfall extremes are increasing around the world, and the increase is linked to the warming of the atmosphere which has taken place since pre-industrial times. This is the conclusion of a recent study...
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Sitting On The Couch Watching TV Is Killing Your Sperm Count
Men who watch more than 20 hours of television a week have almost half the sperm count of those who watch hardly any, according to a study.Exercise, however, appears to improve men's sperm count. Those...
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The Humble Sea Urchin Could Hold Key To Tackling Climate Change
The humble sea urchin could hold the key to turning harmful greenhouse gas carbon dioxide into chalk on an industrial scale, British scientists have revealed.At the moment, pilot studies for Carbon...
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Scientists Print 3D Object Using Stem Cells For The First Time
Scientists on Monday said that for the first time they had printed 3D objects using human embryonic stem cells, furthering the quest to fabricate transplantable organs.Once fine-tuned, the technology...
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Men Really Do Have A Harder Time Reading Other People's Emotions
Psychiatrists have concluded that males take longer to assess facial expressions as their brains have to work twice as hard to work out whether another person looks friendly or intelligent.Researchers...
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Earthquake Prediction Needs An Overhaul, Researchers Say
The earthquakes that rocked Tohoku, Japan in 2011, Sumatra in 2004 and Chile in 1960 — all of magnitude 9.0 or greater — should not have happened, according to seismologist's theories of earthquake...
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Reports Surface Of Monster Lurking In Russian Lake
For centuries, strange reports of a large, underwater creature have come from people living near the remote Lake Labynkyr in Siberia.Now, a team of scientists from the Russian Geographical Society...
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Bacteria Is Turning Toxic Gold Flakes Into Little Gold Nuggets
Among the more peculiar organisms that inhabit our Earth exists a bacterium that turns water-soluble gold into microscopic nuggets of solid gold, scientists said Sunday.Chemists have often pondered why...
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The World's First Bionic Eye Could Soon Be Available In America
After years of research, the first bionic eye has seen the light of day in the United States, giving hope to the blind around the world.Developed by Second Sight Medical Products, the Argus II Retinal...
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Scientists Are Developing Glasses That Can Cure Color Blindness
Spectacles that could cure a person’s colour blindness and allow them to see the full spectrum for the first time have been developed by scientists.The high tech glasses help those with "red-green...
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New Evidence Suggests That Yes, It Was An Asteroid That Killed The Dinosaurs
The idea that a cosmic impact ended the age of dinosaurs in what is now Mexico now has fresh new support, researchers say.The most recent and most familiar mass extinction is the one that finished the...
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Everyone Is Above Average
On a scale of one to 10, you probably think you're a seven. And you wouldn't be alone.While it's impossible for most people to be above average for a specific quality, people think they are better than...
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Researchers Just Dug Up A Half-Million-Year-Old Human Jawbone
Scientists have unearthed a jawbone from an ancient human ancestor in a cave in Serbia.The jawbone, which may have come from an ancient Homo erectus or a primitive-looking Neanderthal precursor, is...
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