A new type of methane-based, oxygen-free life form can metabolize and reproduce similar to life on Earth. This hypothetical cell membrane, modeled by a team of researchers, is composed of small…

In 1966, when the "Star Trek" television show debuted, it was revolutionary - not just in the ways that are commonly stated, like that it took a stand against racism and petty geopolitics, we had…

A dress that seems to be different colors to different people has all the Internet intrigued - and that's a good thing. It's a good way to understand science and psychology. There are two hypotheses…

A new paper challenges a long-accepted hypothesis about the role the hippocampus plays in our unconscious memory.  For decades, neuroscientists have believed that this part of the brain is not…

A strong electric field applied to a section of the Keystone pipeline can smooth oil flow and yield significant pump energy savings, found a new study. The physics basis is to electrically align…

Researchers focusing on a new way to discuss statistical mechanics have modeled "World War Z", an oral history of the first zombie war, to explore how an "actual" zombie outbreak might play out in…

The National Academy of Sciences is presenting its 2015 Public Welfare Medal to astrophysicist Dr.Neil deGrasse Tyson, Director of the Hayden Planetarium of the American Museum of Natural History, in…

Though adopting a whole-food diet has become popular in some circles, is it really going to help you? Perhaps, perhaps not.  One reason to err on the side of caution and not chase diet fads is…

An international team of physicists from Russia and Germany have successfully applied a theory from 2009 to cool a relatively large macroscopic mirror (1.2 millimeters across) with lower fundamental…

It's been over 50 years since the first experimental use of adult stem cells - bone marrow transplants - began, and in that time over 1,000,000 hematopoietic stem cell (HSCT - cells isolated…