Seems that scientists are working on other methods to control items around us without using our hands - the tongue-controlled wheelchair, a mind-controlled wheelchair,...

A report by scientists from The Netherlands published online in The FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org) identifies a compound in human saliva that greatly speeds wound...

This stimulating New Yorker essay (right now gated, but worth buying the issue for) focuses on where creative moments come from.  Excerpt:Many stimulants, like...

In a major step in understanding how the nervous system and the immune system interact, scientists at The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research have identified a new...

It went something like this, aboard many an ancient vessel: A calm sea, a quiet voyage along a route traveled by hundreds of ships a year. Suddenly, the lookout's voice...

In a major step in understanding how the nervous system and the immune system interact, scientists have identified a new anatomical path through which the brain and the...

Well, they could use it for power. Physorg writes that Argentine scientists are capturing cow farts in plastic backpacks to try to understand the impact it has on...

A team at Universidade Nova de Lisboa in Portugal have produced the world's first field-effect transistor based on paper. The paper layer acts as an "interstrate", with...

Spiral galaxy M 51 with magnetic field data. Credit: MPIfR Bonn The origin of magnetic fields in our universe is a mystery. But magnetic fields are a key part of the...

Time magazine is reporting that scientists may have found a cure for shyness. Known as oxytocin (not to be confused with the painkiller OxyContin), the naturally...

An anonymous reader writes with an excerpt from the Victoria Times Colonist: "After a remarkable 37-year experiment, University of Alberta scientist David Schindler and...

Image from StormyDog It may seem hard to believe, but the planet's wetlands, which comprise 6% of its land surface area, contain 771 billion tons of carbon dioxide --...

Looking at the sunset on Mauna Kea through IRPOL. Credit: U of Hawaii Although we can't actually see a black hole, we can see the black hole's effect on...

The oceans already absorb megatons of atmospheric carbon, but scientists say that there's a way to boost this so that CO2 levels could drop to pre-industrial age levels....

David Berry '00, PhD '05 Within the next five years, David Berry projects, American drivers may be filling their tanks with gas that’s not been pumped out of...

"Snow flea antifreeze protein" could help improve organ preservation Scientists in Illinois and Pennsylvania are reporting development of a way to make the antifreeze...

A new expert analysis in Nature Nanotechnology questions whether industry, government and scientists are successfully applying lessons learned from past technologies to...

Tests on ‘HIV pill’ to stave off AIDSBusiness Day - 5 hours agoCAPE TOWN - Scientists from the Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation yesterday announced plans to launch...

Nutrients from the Amazon River's outflow spread well beyond the continental shelf and drive carbon cycling in the tropical ocean, say scientists who conducted a...

Better, Cheaper LEDs The incandescent lightbulb that wastes 90% of the electricity as heat is dying, we all know that. But a new breakthrough in solid state lighting...