When it comes to what's for dinner – or breakfast and lunch for that matter - too many people suffer from chemophobia, an irrational fear of chemicals that pose no risk to our health. Chemistry…

Physicists have successfully teleported information in a solid state system for the first time - they moved information from A to B for the first time in an electronic circuit, similar to a computer…

The Earth has periodic ice ages - every 100,000 years, give or take, and the ice ages last far longer than the warm periods. In the last century, scientists determined that Earth's ice ages were…

Chipotle, the burrito restaurant chain, served more than 120 million pounds of beef, pork and chicken last year.  It now has a problem - sales continue to go up. Its "never ever" policy…

Which strategies give players an edge at winning in multi-player real-time strategy games like Warcraft III/ Defense of the Ancients or Starcraft II? An analysis technique by North Carolina State…

Cleaner drinking water with fewer chemicals may be made possible using ... bacteria. A research team studied four bacteria, Sphingobium, Xenophilus, Methylobacterium and Rhodococcus, found in a city'…

For as much as the War of the Roses has been over-analyzed and documented, you'd think researchers would know where the Battle of Bosworth, which brought the Plantagenet King of England Richard III…

Zoos have used water moats to confine chimpanzees, gorillas or orangutans. When apes ventured into deep water, they often drowned, which indicated that apes could not learn to swim and so prefer to…

Light traveling in a vacuum is the ultimate speed demon, moving at about 700 million miles per hour. Matter cannot exceed the speed of light - unless, perhaps, there is a speed bump in light's path…

It's not right for cobia not to be carnivorous but researchers in Baltimore have scientifically modified these fish so that they no longer occupy their usual place in nature's circle of life: they…