Blue Bananas Surprise Scientists

When a banana ripens, it turns yellow — unless you look at it under a black light, in which case, it appears bright blue, a new study has found.The bananas blue glow was discovered by scientists at th...Full Article

Top 10 strangest things in space

From miniature black holes to distortions in the fabric of space-time, from galaxies that are eating each other to matter that can neither be seen nor detected directly...space is full of many strange...Full Article

Fluorescent-Red Glowing Fish Found

Dr. Seuss had it right with One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish. Only put the emphasis on red. Scientists have found that red is a favorite color among some fish and have discovered several that a...Full Article

Stephen Hawking to unveil strange new way to tell the time

Prof Stephen Hawking is to unveil a remarkable £1 million clock with no hands that pays tribute to the worlds greatest clockmaker.One clock made by the legendary John Harrison, the pioneer of lo...Full Article

What If The Whole Universe Is, Like, One Huge Atom

PALO ALTO, CA—Gathering for what members of the international science community are calling potentially the most totally out-to-lunch freaky head trip since Einstein postulated that space and time wer...Full Article

What Happens if You Fall Into a Black Hole?

 The worlds largest scientific instrument, the Large Hadron Collider, was switched on in Switzerland on Wednesday. A few people worried that the LHC would cause the world to be swallowed up by a ...Full Article

Will the world end on Wednesday?

 Be a bit of a pain if it did, wouldnt it? And the most frustrating thing is that we wont know for sure either way until the European laboratory for particle physics (Cern) in Geneva switches on ...Full Article

Ten things you don't know about the Earth

Good advice from the 70s progressive band. Look around you. Unless you’re one of the Apollo astronauts, you’ve lived your entire life within a few hundred kilometers of the surface of the Earth. There...Full Article

Countdown starts in quest to pierce secrets of Universe

 Particle physicists believe they will throw open a new frontier of knowledge on Wednesday when, 100 metres (325 feet) below ground, they switch on a mega-machine crafted to unveil the deepest my...Full Article

Why Men Die Sooner

  (WebMD) Listen up, guys. It may be time to drop the bravado and consider these sobering statistics: Coronary artery disease (CAD) is three times higher among men who are clinically depress...Full Article

Mystery of the 'couple' buried arm in arm 1,000 years ago

For a thousand years they have lain side by side in a rough earth grave, one throwing a skeletal arm across the other. Believed to be Saxon warriors, they are thought to have died together and been bu...Full Article

A Chinese Challenge to Intel

In California last week, Chinese researchers unveiled details of a microprocessor that they hope will bring personal computing to most ordinary people in China by 2010. The chip, code-named Godson-3, ...Full Article

Human geography is mapped in the genes

The genes of a European person can be enough to pinpoint their ancestry down to their home country, claim two new studies.By reading single-letter DNA differences in the genomes of thousands of Europe...Full Article

'Who Owns the Moon?'

Within the next 10 years, the U.S., China, Israel, and a host of private companies plan to set up camp on the moon. So if and when they plant a flag, does that give them property rights? A NASA w...Full Article

Why do We Sleep? -Scientists Search for the Answer

For many of us, sleep is a precious gift, akin to coffee, that was gifted to us early on in our evolution. But scientists have long been completely baffled as to just why we sleep, and just what const...Full Article

Women DON'T have a higher pain threshold than men

Doctors are failing to give women the right level of pain relief, researchers say.It has always been assumed that womens bodies give them a higher pain threshold than men, to help them cope with the a...Full Article

Is a Mega-Katrina "Hypercane" Possible? MIT Scientist Says "Yes"

 MITs Kerry Emanuel describes the worst nightmare hurricane that could ever happen -a hypercane with  winds raging around its center at 500 miles an hour. Water vapor; sea spray and storm de...Full Article

How the Nose Sniffs Danger in the Air

The next time someone says, “I smell danger in the air,” that might literally be true — and the odor might be coming from you.At the tip of the noses of mammals, including humans, is a ball of nerve c...Full Article

10 People with Unbelievable Medical Conditions

1. The Woman Who has 200 Orgasms every dayUKs Sarah Carmen, 24, is a 200-a-day orgasm girl who gets good, good, GOOD vibrations from almost anything. She suffers from Permanent Sexual Arousal Syndrome...Full Article

Do animals understand death? Do humans?

 While reading the papers this morning my eye was caught by the striking images of Gana, an 11-year old gorilla living at Munster zoo, Germany, holding her dead baby aloft. According to all the n...Full Article