In the Valley of the Moon, high in the Andes, a team of paleontologists and geologists have announced the discovery of a dinosaur ' at the root of the dinosaur family tree'  which roamed…

Neuroscientists at MIT say they have uncovered why relatively minor details of an episode are sometimes inexplicably linked to long-term memories.     Even irrelevant information that…

Here's an interesting one, short and sweet - apparently Russians are able to perceive between slightly-different hues of the colour blue because their language contains more words for it.…

An Ohio 8th-grade creationist science teacher with a habit of branding crosses on his students' arms has been fired, after a long and tedious process and a lawsuit that cost the school district some…

In ancient times, when things went wrong in battle or the economy, people blamed leaders (if they didn't like them) or the Gods (if they liked the leaders) but maybe they should have blamed global…

Every now and again, something happens that makes you want to shake someone's hand and then take a hatchet to their throat - and there's a good chance that a number of these occurrences will be in…

It is well known among those who study schizophrenia that speech which does not reflect the true underlying reality produces the kinds of violent and crazy reactions displayed by the assassin of…

Last week I told you how to get your degree.  Now it's time to look at the life of a working scientist.  It's time for me to answer oft-asked questions like: What is a scientist's regular…

Why are we forked creatures instead of tumbling beach balls of undifferentiated cells? An embryo begins by dividing into identical cells, but within hours these cells begin to make genetic…

CHENNAI, India, January 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Sify Technologies Limited , a leader in Enterprise Services and Consumer Internet Services in India with global delivery capabilities, announced that…