Don’t Always Believe the Science

Science has given us some amazing inventions over the centuries. Personally I’m a big fan of the light bulb (thanks Thomas) and the Wright brothers were certainly having a good day when their flying m...Full Article

The Amazing Fate of the Solar Armor Inventor

In 1874, one man; an inventor of considerable genius, was reported to have completely reversed the effect of the sun. In the scorching heat of the mid-summer Nevada desert, he was found frozen stiff b...Full Article

Most babies born to first-cousins are healthy

WA scientists are challenging the myth that inbreeding always leads to unhealthy babies.The highly contentious, often-tabooed practice has in the past been linked to deformities such as heart disease,...Full Article

Top 10 Things Science Hasn't Explained

 Its time to cut to the chase with a look at the top ten things that Science  just cant explain - yet. No were not talking minor mysteries like how Keith Richards is still walking, these are...Full Article

Why Does Hair Turn Gray?

Have you ever watched someone try to cover up gray hair by dyeing it? Or maybe you wonder why your granddad has a full head of silver hair when in old pictures it used to be d...Full Article

Scientists aim to unlock deep-sea “secrets” of Earth’s crust

Scientists from Durham University will use robots to explore the depths of the Atlantic Ocean to study the growth of underwater volcanoes that build the Earth’s crust.The Durham experts will lead an i...Full Article

Did Earth once have multiple moons?

The ancient catastrophe that gave birth to the Moon may have produced additional satellites that lingered in Earths skies for tens of millions of years.A new model suggests moonlets may have once occu...Full Article

The Coldest Place in the Universe

Wheres the coldest spot in the universe? Not on the moon, where the temperature plunges to a mere minus 378 Fahrenheit. Not even in deepest outer space, which has an estimated background temperature o...Full Article

Scientists find way to increase corn's vitamin A

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. scientists have developed a way to breed corn that can boost the vitamin A it gives people who eat it -- a potentially important advance for regions of the world burdened b...Full Article

Ancient pyramid found in central Mexico City

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Archeologists have discovered the ruins of an 800-year-old Aztec pyramid in the heart of the Mexican capital that could show the ancient city is at least a century older than p...Full Article

Is your brain really necessary?

Is your brain you really necessary?  The reason for my apparently absurd question is the remarkable research conducted at the University of Sheffield by neurology professor the late Dr. John Lorb...Full Article

Germany seeks next Einstein

GOETTINGEN, Germany (Reuters) - It may have brought the world aspirin, rocket science, quantum physics and the diesel engine, but Germanys days of scientific glory are long gone and it is now hunting ...Full Article

Noah's Ark flood spurred European farming

LONDON (Reuters) - An ancient flood some say could be the origin of the story of Noahs Ark may have helped the spread of agriculture in Europe 8,300 years ago by scattering the continents earliest far...Full Article

Faulty memories stored differently from true ones

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Whether a memory is fact or fiction may depend on where in the brain it is stored, which may explain why people sometimes swear they remember something that never happened, researc...Full Article

Tibetans wake up to nosebleeds in super-dry autumn

BEIJING (Reuters) - Moisture has become a luxury in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa where many locals are waking up to nosebleeds in the dry autumn, state media said on Monday as the Himalayan region fac...Full Article

China's lunar probe enters moon's orbit

BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese lunar obiter entered the moons orbit on Monday, 12 days after takeoff, a feat hailed as a new milestone in Chinas exploration of space.Change One was given instructions t...Full Article

Cat's eye view of DNA sheds light on human disease

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The first full genetic map of a cat -- a domestic pedigreed Abyssinian -- is already shedding light on a common cause of blindness in humans and may offer insights into AIDS and...Full Article

Arthur Kornberg, 1959 Nobel DNA winner, dies at 89

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Dr. Arthur Kornberg, who won the 1959 Nobel Prize for figuring out how DNA is built, died on Friday of respiratory failure at the age of 89, Stanford University Hospital in Cali...Full Article

Dog DNA study reveals new role for protein

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A family of proteins known to fight off microbes surprisingly also helps determine whether a poodles coat will be black, white or somewhere in between, U.S. researchers said on Thu...Full Article

Climate myths: Mars and Pluto are warming too

There have been claims that warming on Mars and Pluto are proof that the recent warming on Earth is caused by an increase in solar activity, and not by greenhouses gases. But we can say with certainty...Full Article