It's not disputed that long necked sauropod dinosaurs were the largest land animals ever to walk the Earth, but why they got so large is a debate. Was it the nature of the food they ate?  While…

Why do people think that a $25 flu shot is more likely to still have them getting the flu than a $125 flu shot? It isn't that they think a $25 flu shot is less effective, it's that they worried they…

In what is believed to be a historical first, someone named Dr. Rongxiang Xu has filed a lawsuit against the Nobel Assembly, citing libel and unfair competition. Xu is apparently the founder of "…

Emotion can help us recognize words more quickly, just like the context of a sentence can. But a new paper about the role of emotion in word recognition memory says we do not remember…

Rose madder, a natural plant dye once prized throughout the Old World to make fiery red textiles, might be cool once again.  Chemists have developed a non-toxic and sustainable lithium-ion…

A gel similar to the amino acid that enables mussels to resist the power of churning water can be painted onto the walls of blood vessels and stay put, forming a protective barrier with…

Sliman Bensmaia, PhD, assistant professor of organismal biology aat the University of Chicago, studies the neural basis of tactile perception -  how our hands convey this information to the…

Want a microchip that operates 300 times the speed of chips today? Maybe some day. Tiny, inexpensive silicon microchips developed by a pair of electrical engineers at the California Institute of…

This sounds a bit like a Dalek invasion.  But in fact it’s research from Arizona State University: X-ray laser helps slay parasite that causes sleeping sickness Does that mean we will have…

The little-understood protein osteocalcin plays a significant role in the strength of our bones, says a new paper,  and the findings could lead to new strategies for fighting osteoporosis and…