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Scientists Pinpoint Why A Famous Gorilla Was White
A famous albino gorilla that lived for 40 years at the Barcelona Zoo got its white coloring by way of inbreeding, new research shows.Snowflake was a male Western lowland gorilla. He was born in the...
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Copper Piping May Be The Cause Of Bad Hair Days
Copper piping may be the cause of bad hair days, according to scientists who have found that washing with water containing the metal can lead to split ends and unmanageable hair.It is one of the...
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Scientists Are Moving A 15-Ton Magnet From New York To Chicago
UPTON, N.Y. (AP) — New York to Chicago, in five weeks?Scientists on Long Island are preparing to move a 50-foot-wide electromagnet 3,200 miles over land and sea to its new home at the U.S. Department...
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Science Proves That Siblings Can Be Total Jerks
Across the U.S., parents, educators, doctors and other experts have rallied to protect children from bullies. However, bullying by brothers and sisters is often chalked up to normal sibling behavior....
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Heroes And Psychopaths Have Similar Personalities
Heroes and psychopaths may have something in common, according to new research that links psychopathic personality traits to selfless behavior.The finding may seem incongruous, given that lack of...
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Atomic Clocks Are Getting Even More Accurate
The ultimate accessory in exact timekeeping — the atomic clock — is set to become even more precise, after ultrashort laser pulses were successfully transmitted across open air to help synchronize the...
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This Is What Our Mind Won't Let Us See
It was a summer evening when Tony Cornell tried to make the residents of Cambridge, England see a ghost.He got dressed up in a sheet and walked through a public park waving his arms about.Meanwhile his...
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Climate Change Will Create Dangerously Dry And Dust-Bowl Like Conditions
Marlene Cimons of Climate Nexus contributed this article to LiveScience's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.Drought has beset the Earth since before farming began. In developing nations, it brings...
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The New Rules For Thinking In A Digital World
Is technology making us stupid — or smarter than we’ve ever been? Author Nicholas Carr memorably made the case for the former in his 2010 book The Shallows: What The Internet Is Doing To Our...
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Autism Linked To Air Pollution Exposure During Pregnancy
Pregnant women who were exposed to high levels of air pollution were twice as likely to have a child with autism as women who lived in low pollution areas, according to a US study.Experts at Harvard...
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Coming In 2045: Digital Immortality By Uploading Our Minds To Computers
NEW YORK — By 2045, humans will achieve digital immortality by uploading their minds to computers — or at least that's what some futurists believe. This notion formed the basis for the Global Futures...
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You Can Now Send Personalized Messages Into Space
NEW YORK — In 18 years, messages beamed out into space from Earth by a new alien-messaging project Monday (June 17) will reach a distant star system known as Gliese 526.Officials with the Lone Signal...
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'Lost' Medieval City Discovered Beneath A Cambodian Jungle
A lost city known only from inscriptions that existed some 1,200 years ago near Angkor in what is now Cambodia has been uncovered using airborne laser scanning.The previously undocumented cityscape,...
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These Are The Moments NASA's Newest Astronauts Learned They Might Go To Space
Ann McClain's mother was in her front yard rose garden when her daughter called with the news."You'll never forget this moment," McClain, a 34-year-old major in the U.S. Army told her mom. "I've been...
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A Lack Of Sleep Can Make You Fat, Study Claims
A study has found that people who have fewer hours of sleep a night have higher levels of a molecule which stimulates appetite.Scientists in America say participants who had only four-and-a-half hours...
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NASA Needs Your Help To Find Earth-Destroying Asteroids
Welcome to the NASA Grand Challenge, where everyone from government agencies to citizen scientists will compete to figure out the best way to detect and study earth-threatening asteroids. This is a...
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It Was 94 Degrees In Alaska Yesterday
In Alaska, houses are built to keep warm air in and cold air out, not the other way around.So with a record-setting heat wave scorching the state, residents are sweltering amidst temperatures soaring...
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5 Signs That Your Body Is Starving For Vitamins
When your body is trying to tell you something—for example, that you're skimping on critical vitamins—it may go to some strange lengths."With today's diet of processed foods, it's easy to become...
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Your Eye Movements May Reveal Mental Illness
Eye-tracking has become the tech trend du jour.Advertisers use data on where you look and when to better capture your attention. Designers employ it to improve products. Game and phone developers...
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Some Parents Do Use Their Kids To Fulfill Broken Dreams
Yes, mom may really be pushing you into marching band because she always wanted to be drum major. New research finds that, consistent with what kids may believe, parents really do hope to live out...
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