Physicists have developed a new cooling technique for mechanical quantum systems by using an ultracold atomic gas, cooling a membrane down to less than 1 degree above absolute zero. Ultracold atomic…

Due to a loss of scientific relevance, which has led to scarcity of personnel and thus decreasing government funding, Italian natural history museums are on the verge of collapse.  A new paper…

What will it take to convince skeptics of global warming that the phenomenon is real? Droughts, floods and heat waves will begin to change minds. But is attributing every weather event to climate…

Americans may recall the 'threat warning level' system that came into being after the terrorist attacks on the Wall Trade Center on September 9th, 2011. It was a color coded with 5 levels. But it…

Last week, in Part I of this two part series, "Bee Deaths Mystery Solved? Neonicotinoids (Neonics) May Actually Help Bee Health”, we explored the claims by Harvard School of Public Health researcher…

Magic and sparkle? Diliff, CC BY By Isabelle Szmigin, University of Birmingham As well as the tell-tale signs of decorations going up, the rolling out of Christmas advertisements has become a key…

I have been given the privilege of publishing during the Beta test period in the Open Access journal The Winnower for no cost but my time and care.  I was also given assistance by the…

What if whether you got a job was determined by which web browser you used? Shutterstock By Mark Burdon, The University of Queensland and Paul Harpur, The University of Queensland Staff recruitment…

New age ways of teaching where the children guide their learning rather than the teacher are perhaps not as effective. Shutterstock By Kevin Donnelly, Australian Catholic University Seventy teachers…

As we move closer to the highly anticipated first ever test flight of the Orion spacecraft, there's an aerospace company which would be keeping its fingers tightly crossed during this nail-biting…