Maintaining a Curriculum Vitae (CV) regularly is an important activity for researchers mainly driven by the need to show the impact of his/her research during hiring, promotion, grant…

An international team of physicists has proposed a revolutionary laser system inspired by telecommunications technology that could be used in both fundamental research at laboratories such as CERN…

An autonomous robotic jellyfish the size and weight of a grown man has been developed.  Nicknamed Cyro, this prototype is a larger model of the robotic jellyfish (named RoboJelly) the same team…

The Mind Research Network in Albuquerque says that brain scans can predict the likelihood of whether a criminal will re-offend following release from prison. They studied impulsive and…

Antidepressants are commonly prescribed for depression but their efficacy is questionable -   many people don't experience symptom relief. The National Institute of Mental Health's STAR*D study…

Researchers in the Sheffield Centre for Robotics have been working to program a group of 40 robots that 'swarm' together to carry out jobs. So far, they have demonstrated that the swarm can carry out…

Since it's Easter season, all of Christendom will be awash in articles and television shows about the Shroud of Turin.  The Shroud, if you are new to the western world, is a cloth imprinted with…

fMRI has always been a little misused, to people who know what they are talking about. 20 years after it was first done, the promise seems to have been overrun by agenda-based cultural mapping.…

A recent article entitled "Monsanto v Monarch Butterflies" begins by examining the argument that GMO foods are impacting the population of Monarch butterflies.  There are enough references and…

Most stars do not form in isolation, but are in clusters ranging from dozens to thousands of stars.   Even in our galaxy, the Milky Way, with stars more than 13 billion years old, has a lot of…