Are you smarter than a cat? Not if you are a vegetarian. Cats know what is good for them and that is why cats are basically carnivores.  Cats can't produce taurine,  2-…

V1647 Ori resides 1300 light-years away in McNeil’s Nebula. It is a young Sun-like star spinning at high speed and spewing out super-hot plasma and astronomers have now been able to deduce what might…

What causes obesity?  Obviously ingesting more calories than a person burns leads to weight gain but what really causes obesity? Will banning Big Gulps, Happy Meals and Trans fats make people…

By now it's been written on so many newspapers and magazines -including Nature (the magazine, not the bitch)- that if a colleague of mine tries to reproach me for writing about the impending seminar…

If you use off-the-shelf electronics parts instead of expensive, hard-to-find space-rated gear, will your satellite work?  The process of 'derating' will let you do this.  Engineer Amanda…

Older honey bees halt and even reverse the effects of brain aging when they are given roles typically handled by younger bees. This has led researchers to suggest that that social interventions may…

"That's something you don't see every day, Chauncey.""What's that, Edgar?""A man eating a whole live squid mere weeks after news reports that eating whole squid can lead to mouth insemination." "But…

MUMBAI and BALTIMORE, July 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- BSE : 500257 NSE: Lupin REUTERS: LUPN.BO BLOOMBERG: LPC IN Pharma major, Lupin Ltd., announced today that its subsidiary, Lupin Pharmaceuticals…

Mundipharma today announced the positive European Commission (EC) decision for flutiform(R) (fluticasone propionate/formoterol fumarate), a new combination therapy for the maintenance treatment of…

So, currently, the US is hosting the world's largest naval excercises from Hawaii (RIMPAC 2012). The New Zealand navy, amongst the other 22 nations participating, has been refused entry to Pearl…