This has been a slow news day.  On such days, my mind tends to drift somewhat.  Combining the science of linguistics with the philosophical notion of multiple parallel universes leads to…

With hot, new technologies, biologists are taking higher-resolution snapshots of what's going on inside the cell, but the results are stirring up controversy. One of the most interesting recent…

BOSTON ––– In a new study of terminally ill cancer patients, researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute found that those who draw on religion to cope with their illness are more likely to receive…

Preliminary research in healthy men suggests that the narcolepsy drug modafinil, increasingly being used to enhance cognitive abilities, affects the activity of dopamine in the brain in a way that…

DURHAM, N.C. -- Somewhere out there in the ocean, SpongeBob SquarePants has a teeny-tiny cousin and a humongous uncle. That's just what one would expect from a new analysis of body sizes across all…

DENVER, Colorado, May 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Falcon Oil Gas Ltd. (TSXV: FO) (Falcon) is pleased to announce that the Foldeak-1 well has reached total depth. This well is part of the Initial Work…

When the Chinese invented gunpowder round about the 800s, they founded one half of the science of chemistry, namely bangs, the other half of course being stinks.  They quickly applied it to…

How many times have you wondered where did I leave my keys?  Activity in your hippocampus and medial temporal lobes encodes the answer.A new study using high resolution brain imaging has shown…

LAS VEGAS, May 4 /PRNewswire/ -- - New technologies in SOA and Collaboration address growing US$61 billion market At the IMPACT 2009 conference, IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced new products and…

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, May 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Mobile penetration in Uganda is expected to increase from 39.0 percent in 2009 to 70.7 percent by 2014, prompted by the successful liberalization of…