What if nearly half of the cars on the road today were replaced by the electric kind, those vehicles that environmentalists and electric vehicle marketing groups claim are "90% efficient" and worth…

Cocaine users display worse memory performance, concentration difficulties, and attentional deficits. They have difficulties understanding the perspective of others, show less emotional empathy…

Do you understand the complexities of the brain's working memory? No one really does. Yet everyone knows how much RAM is in their phone or tablet or PC. Using the RAM analogy, researchers say that…

Relic moss samples exposed by modern Arctic warming have been found to date as far back as 44,000 years ago, according to radiocarbon dating.  When the temperature rises on Baffin…

How bad is pollution in China? So bad you can see it from space. Wait, can't you do that in the US? Anyone who has flown into Los Angeles in the morning surely sees pollution.  This is different…

Conservationists and animal activists have created a mythology that poaching is mostly illegal hunting for trophies or something like ivory for decoration. It's not the case at all, and that…

A new battery that runs on sugar has an "unmatched energy density", according to the team behind it. Other sugar batteries have been developed but energy density has always been the problem. There is…

World War II had consequences for continental Europeans. Living in a war-torn country increased the likelihood of a number of physical and mental problems later in life, according to a paper by…

Seismic waves penetrating to a depth of almost 200 miles report the discovery of an anomaly that likely is the volcanic mantle plume of the Galapagos Islands - it's just not where geologists and…

You can always tell when someone does not have a lot of experience in something. They are anxious, they start too soon, perhaps confused. With practice and training, situations become rote. Athletes…