Britain's House of Lords voted 280 to 48 to permit the use of three-person IVF - mitochondrial donation to prevent incurable mitochondrial diseases, which afflict around 4,000 children per year - on…

Mandarin-speaking Chinese more likely to read emotions in the voices of others, while English-speaking North Americans rely more on facial expressions, according to a new paper. That may be why…

Stockholm is considered the world's most sunlight-deprived capital - in November of 2014 the Swedes living there had just a few hours of the stuff and in winter months, it will get dark at 3 PM…

Will the FCC repeat past mistakes of regulating telecommunications as utilities? Shutterstock Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Tom Wheeler claims that his plan to regulate Internet…

Regular concert-goers are used to seeing singers use expressive and even very dramatic facial expressions - that's because it works. Music and speech are alike in that they use both facial and…

If wind and solar companies want to continue to get government money, they should take a page out of the natural gas playbook - a new economic analysis found that just three state grants to…

Sleep is essential for overall health. Without regular age appropriate amounts of sleep, adolescents are at risk for developing a variety of conditions such as depression, anxiety, weight change, and…

Can he be the global warming culprit? Link Could our meat-loving Western diets push climate change over the edge? That was the message of a recent report from UK think tank Chatham House that, even…

The demise of radio has been predicted for 70 years, but it is still going strong - it is just more consolidated than it was in the past. Even college radio which, thanks to taxpayers, isn't under…

Credit: L. Sabetelli / Wellcome, CC BY The Black Death struck Europe in 1347, killing 30-50% of the European population in six violent years. It wasn’t a one-off epidemic: it signaled the start of…