Fainting, also called vasovagal syncope (by about five neurologists and no one else), is a brief loss of consciousness that occurs when blood flow to the brain drops.  Its causes are so numerous…

Does gaydar exist?  If so, it's in the eyes. Sexual orientation can be revealed by pupil dilation to attractive people, say researchers who used a specialized infrared lens to measure pupillary…

Medical science has done miraculous things - namely saving billions of lives.  But anti-science activists are driving workers who develop new drugs out of research, by attacking them and and…

Conventional motion capture for film, like Gollum in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, and game production ("Mass Effect 3") involves multiple cameras and actors festooned with markers but the future…

It's American election season and that means it is time for psychologists to introduce racism again - not whether you are racist, but how much. Well, only white people are, said a talk at the Annual…

It is believed that the first mustache transplants were performed by the late trichological pioneer Dr. Okuda in 1930’s Japan. Since then, considerable progress has been made – some of which is…

Organisms can be divided into autotrophs, which can synthesize their own food using inorganic minerals, and heterotrophs which require organic food.  Plants produce organic compounds from simple…

The Curiosity rover has landed safely on MARS, we have seen the image of the wheel on the surface.    There were good reasons to doubt the "Sky crane" approach to a landing.  Just one…

When CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, near Geneva, Switzerland, announced the discovery of the elusive Higgs boson on July 4th this year--the result of years of running of the…

Scientists have combined the power of two kinds of microscope to produce a 3-dimensional movie of how cells ‘swallow’ nutrients and other molecules by engulfing them - the first to follow changes in…