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The Way You Were Born Could Change Your Brain
Being born by Cesarean section may have a lasting effect on the brain, at least in mice, according to a new study. In the study, mice born by a vaginal birth produced a brain protein called UCP2,...
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Stressed Out Men Are Attracted To A 'Bigger' Variety Of Women
Men are usually programmed to prefer slimmer and younger-looking women because they appear healthier and more fertile, making them a better bet for bearing offspring. But stress can cause men to...
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Six Innovations To Help Humans Make It Through The Coming Droughts And Floods
Wild geoengineering schemes may aim to reverse global warming by reflecting sunlight into space or storing excess carbon dioxide, but they won't spare humanity from living through climate change in...
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New Fossils Suggest We Weren't Always The Only Humans On Earth
New fossils from the dawn of the human lineage suggest our ancestors may have lived alongside a diversity of extinct human species, researchers say. Although modern humans, Homo sapiens, are the only...
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Computer Scientists Accidentally Discover How Rare Twinned Rainbows Form
Double rainbows had their fifteen minutes of fame on the Internet. Now get ready for their even more mysterious cousins: twinned rainbows. New research has suggested an explanation for these exotic...
View ArticleWe're Stuck In An Era Of 'Marginal' Revolutions Like Twitter And Amazon
How revolutionary is social media?"We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters." -Founders Fund website, Peter Thiel We live in an age of rapid change. Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google,...
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Woman's Itchy Ear Canal Housed A Spider For Five Days
That old urban legend about spiders crawling into your orifices while you sleep has come true. A woman who checked into China's Changsha Central Hospital Wednesday (Aug. 8) with an itchy ear learned...
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How 'Blade Runner' Olympian Oscar Pistorius Runs
There may be one obvious difference between Oscar Pistorius of South Africa and his fellow sprinters at the London Olympics this year. Nicknamed the "Blade Runner," Pistorius is the first double...
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This Drug Can Turn Some People Into Mindreaders
There is a drug that can almost help you read someone's mind. Oxytocin is a naturallly occuring hormone that is associated with emotional bonding. Supplementing it has been shown to increase people's...
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Creepy Eyeless Spider Discovered In Cave
Huntsman spiders, like most spiders, are typically equipped with eight eyes. But researchers have discovered a new cave-dwelling species that ditched its peepers for a life in permanent darkness....
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Huge Island Of Floating Rock Discovered In The Pacific
An "island" of floating pumice rocks bigger in area than Israel has been spotted in the South Pacific, New Zealand's Royal Navy said. Officers on a Royal New Zealand Air Force ship saw the rock raft...
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NASA's Satellites Spy Source Of The Mysterious Floating Stone Island
The source of an enormous floating mass of pumice spotted this week in the South Pacific Ocean off the coast of New Zealand has been discovered: NASA satellite images and other sleuthing science have...
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Blogger Claims To Have Discovered Long-Lost Pyramids Using Google Earth
A self-described "satellite archaeology researcher" has garnered widespread media attention with claims that she has found two possible pyramid complexes in Egypt using Google Earth. But experts say...
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Radiation From Fukushima Created Mutant Butterflies
One legacy of the Fukushima nuclear disaster last year has already become apparent through a study of butterflies in Japan: Their rate of genetic mutations and deformities has increased with...
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We Used To Sleep In Two Segments Every Night Until Electricity Was Invented
Roger Ekrich noticed many old books, including Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales", referenced two periods of sleep being the norm in their era. Via Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep:...
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Math Nerds Everywhere Celebrated Today When The US Population Hit 314,159,265
Figuring out the number of American residents got as easy as pi on Tuesday as the United States touched a rare mathematical and demographic milestone. The Census Bureau said that the United States...
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Scientists Make A Baby Elephant Using Frozen Sperm
VIENNA (Reuters) - Scientists have succeeded for the first time in impregnating an elephant with frozen sperm, ultrasound pictures presented by Vienna's Schoenbrunn Zoo showed on Tuesday. The scan...
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There Are Signs Baby Boomers Won't Live As Long As Expected
What if the generation that once rocked out to The Who's "hope I die before I get old" line actually does? Most retirement plans and federal budget projections assume baby boomers -- those Americans...
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The Science Behind Your Dog's Ability To Shake Itself Dry
Next time the family dog bounds out of the nearest body of water and shakes itself off right beside you, don't get irritated: You're witnessing a feat of evolution that engineers can only dream of...
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New Mars Research Suggests That 'Marsquakes' Are Possible
The surface of Mars has been shaped by plate tectonics in the recent past, a new study suggests, making the Red Planet perhaps a better candidate to host life than scientists had thought. Mars may...
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