Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura have been award the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving…

I have just downloaded a paper featuring some research from the University of Durham and our own School of Biological Sciences here at Reading: Rapid Evolution of the Cerebellum in Humans and Other…

Sodium is back in the health concern cycle and an analysis of data in the federal nationwide dietary intake survey known as "What We Eat in America NHANES 2009-2010," has led a team of…

Certain foods can help your brain retain information. Credit: Shutterstock By Tanya Lawlis, University of Canberra Exam time is quickly approaching for high school and university students. While…

No one is seriously expecting to overturn Einstein's idea of time dilation, and instead the goal is often to find the possible limits. That means looking for deviations in experiments with…

Seven Swedish women have had embryos reintroduced after receiving wombs from living donors and now one has delivered a healthy and normally developed boy, reveals the case study in The Lancet. The…

"Fermilab has very actively tried to scoop us by press release, even though their uncertainties are under serious challenge and they knew our measurements even before they released theirs." Michael…

What role do genes have to play in children's exam results? Student test by  wavebreakmedia /Shutterstock By Eva Krapohl, King's College London and Kaili Rimfeld, King's College London The idea…

Dr. Steve McKnight is President of the American Society For Biochemistry And Molecular Biology and chairman of the biochemistry department at the University of Texas-Southwestern Medical Center at…

John O'Keefe , left, and Edvard and May-Britt Moser. Credits: David Bishop, UCL and NTNU By Luc Henry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine…