Studies have shown that men find female faces more attractive when women are ovulating, but how they might know - the visual clues that allow this - are unclear. New research research sought to show…

A collaborative group of Japanese researchers has demonstrated that the Earth's daily rotation period (24 hours) is encoded in the KaiC protein at the atomic level, a small, 10 nm-diameter…

Mice that have a genetic version of mitochondrial disease can easily be mistaken for much older animals by the time they are nine months old: they have thinning gray hair, osteoporosis, poor hearing…

When rats rest, their brains simulate journeys to a desired future such as a tasty treat, finds new UCL research funded by the Wellcome Trust and Royal Society. The researchers monitored brain…

In Akira Kurosawa's timeless 1950 masterpiece (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042876/), a murder and a rape appear to have occurred in the deep woods of 12th-century Japan. A priest, a woodcutter and a…

A vegan diet remains controversial because it is in defiance of our evolutionary mandate - it is unnatural in humans to only eat meat the same way it is in cats. But diets are popular for lots of…

Sleep seems simple enough to define, it is a state of rest and restoration that almost every vertebrate creature must enter regularly in order to survive. Yet the brain responds differently to…

Environmentalism, once the domain of science-based progressives like Dr. Norm Borlaug, has been hijacked by...conservatives. You read that right. Outside America, 'conservative' usually meant '…

Males and females process pain using different cells, a new study with mice suggests.The findings could help researchers develop the next generation of medications for chronic pain—the most prevalent…

What have I been doing for the last twoweeks, you ask? I’ve been waiting for news on the antibiotic front.  The G7 came out with a completely lame statement that has no specific commitments.…