Recently, a gamma-ray burst occurred with an optical flash that peaked at magnitude 7 on the astronomical brightness scale, easily visible through binoculars. It is the second-brightest flash…

Astronomers from around the world have used data from satellites and observatories to explain the brightest Gamma-ray Burst (GRB) ever recorded. An unusually bright GRB, now deemed GRB 130427A, was…

Los Alamos' RAPTOR (RAPid Telescopes for Optical Response) telescopes in New Mexico and Hawaii received a very bright cosmic birth announcement for a black hole on April 27th.  The RAPTOR (…

Faced with inevitable pain, most people choose to get over with as soon as possible, according to a new paper in which participants chose between real painful stimuli in the form of electric shocks,…

There are widespread differences in how genes are expressed in men and women's brains, based on post-mortem adult human brain and spinal cord samples from over 100 individuals analyzed by…

Contrary to sociological claims that poor people are more likely to be criminals, increasing the minimum wage will not lower violent crime or property crime, according to research presented today at…

Health care costs are going to continue to go up and a new paper says that physicians control more than 80 percent of those costs. That part is true, though doctors are often forced to practice such…

Neutrinos can pass right through your body, the walls of your house, entire planets, even emerging from near the surface of fascinating and frightening black holes.  And now, an international…

Drinking and marriage don't mix - unless both spouses do, according to a recent paper by the University at Buffalo Research Institute on Addictions (RIA) which followed 634 couples from the time of…

Through millions of years of evolution, the shape of an egg has evolved to an optimum – at least from a hen’s point of view.For some humans though, this shape is less than ideal –  there are…