Lost memories can be restored, which offers some hope for patients in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease. The belief has been that memories are stored at the synapses -- the connections between…

World War One Christmas Truce Commemoration match – but it's debated whether the original ever happened. Mike Egerton/PA Wire By William Keylor, Boston University The Christmas Truce is no stranger…

On Dec. 10th, ESA announced the latest important discovery regarding comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. Rosetta spacecraft orbiting the comet has found the water vapor from its target to be…

After a year in which further details of national intelligence agencies' shadowy surveillance networks were laid bare, a fresh leak of documents reveals the obsessive surveillance that extends as far…

The advent of open access (OA) publishing has lead to a proliferation of journals which offer a peer reviewed publication venue for a nominal charge.  Some of these journals are associated with…

Smile, though your heart is aching. Morgan, CC BY By Annie Austin, University of Manchester The idea that data on happiness and well-being can be used to guide government policy has steadily gained…

The evolutionary adaptations of ancient lobe-finned fish transformed pectoral fins used underwater into strong, bony structures that enabled emerging tetrapods, animals with limbs, to allow them…

The oldest recorded stone tool found to-date has been unearthed in Turkey. The chance find of a humanly-worked quartzite flake, in ancient deposits of the river Gediz in western Turkey, show that…

Francesco Botticini's The Assumption of the Virgin shows the heavenly hierarchies at play. By Martin Parker, University of Leicester One of the oldest assumptions about organizing comes directly from…

Our Milky Way is part of a cluster of more than 50 galaxies that make up the ‘Local Group’, a collection that includes the famous Andromeda galaxy and many other far smaller objects. And now one…