Our brain, wrinkles on our faces and even mountain chains have one thing in common - all those things, though very different, result from the same process, namely the compression of a 'rigid membrane…

Most chefs don't know how many calories are in the dishes they prepare.   7 percent were not at all familiar and 49 percent were only somewhat familiar.   Taste is what people pay for at $…

If only you could ditch that traumatic memory, that craving, that debilitating fear of ventriloquist dummies (autonomatonophobia)! But these tendencies are so deeply ingrained that try as you might,…

Many bacteria spend much of their existence within a matrix that they create, called biofilm. Biofilm consists of mucopolysaccharide (or slime-like, think “The Blob” from the 1950s) structures…

A good science fair project typically takes less time and is more interesting to do, than a bad one.  Does this make sense?  Do you want to spend extra time having less fun?  As a…

Alom Shaha at the Guardian thinks that even though there are now more women Ph.D.s than men, women won't go into science unless they see a woman hosting a science show in the UK. We're in the midst…

Disputing that no screening method had proved effective at reducing mortality from lung cancer,  annual CT scans of current and former heavy smokers reduced their risk of death from lung cancer…

ATHENS, Greece, November 5, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Following a successful sampling and positive customer response, ANTCOR, a leader in the development of advanced software solutions for wireless…

As beautiful as they get, or even more so. It is hard to express the beauty of the event that the CMS collaboration published today. CMS, which stands for "compact muon solenoid", is one of the two…

NEWARK, New Jersey, November 5, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Binary Tree today announced a strategic alliance to deploy its software for Microsoft led migrations for IBM/Lotus Notes customers to Microsoft…