Perhaps some day, 3D printers will be spitting out replacement organs made from your own DNA, and like Amazon.com, they will show up in your “mailbox” an hour after you order them.  …

Finally, Drummond had everything he’d ever dreamed of. He’d come a long way since he was a little boy, upset at his failure to get into the grammar school. That had been a great disappointment to his…

It's an old joke: Practical nuclear fusion power plants are just 30 years away -- and always will be. Maybe sooner, this time. Advances in magnet technology have led researchers at MIT to…

A new psychology paper finds that people with high levels of autistic traits are more likely to produce unusually creative ideas. The authors examined the relationship between autistic-like traits…

Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing developed a new cyber security analysis method that discovered 11 previously unknown Internet browser security flaws. Their…

n findings never before seen in melanoma, a novel combination therapy was found to be highly effective at treating patients with skin metastases, new research has shown.  The research found that…

In 1884, a delegation of international representatives convened in Washington, D.C. to recommend that Earth's prime meridian (the north-south line marking zero degrees longitude) should pass through…

Human learning is a complex, sometimes mysterious process. Most of us have had experiences where we have struggled to learn something new, but also times when we've picked something up nearly…

Male doctors have nearly a 250 percent greater chance of having medico-legal action taken against them than their female counterparts. It'a a defensive medicine culture, and fear of lawsuits are why…

Since the chickenpox vaccine became available in the U.S. in 1995, there has been a large reduction in chickenpox cases. Hospitalizations and outpatient visits for chickenpox have continued their…