Bullying has become a frequently discussed problem but most of the stories involve young people. Less discussed is its prevalence in academia but a Rutgers–Camden nursing scholar is shedding some…

Platinum is used in catalytic converters to transform toxic fumes from a car's engine into more benign gases, to produce high octane gasoline, plastics and synthetic rubbers, and to fight the spread…

Many people can recall reading a cherished story that they say changed their life and now researchers have detected what may be biological traces related to this feeling: Actual changes in the brain…

#2 ‘Implementing a Jabberwocky Gibberish Generator’. In contrast to some computer-programme developers who create gibberish by jumbling word-orders (see Progress In Gibberish Computing #1 ) others…

PETA has decided to show it's support for animal rights by giving human animals hypothermia. But only female human animals. They seem to hate female humans. No idea why, but hatred is the only…

The oldest evidence of sexual reproduction in a flowering plant – a cluster of 18 tiny flowers from the Cretaceous Period, with one of them in the process of making some new seeds for the next…

From the earliest days on record, earthquake lights - rare, luminous phenomena associated with some seismic events - have mystified people and intrigued geologists.  Earthquake lights…

Recently a friend of mine got diagnosed with breast cancer.  It was devastating, and she started to go through the usual stages that people do when dealing with tragic news.  My wife told…

It's well established that as people's waistlines increase, so does the chance for the incidence of type 2 diabetes. Scientists from Denmark have found that in mice, macrophages, a specific type of…

Pine Island Glacier is one of the biggest routes for ice to flow from Antarctica into the sea and the floating ice shelf at the glacier's tip has been melting and thinning for the past four decades,…