A recent article in Discover Magazine was titled “A Universe Built For Us.”  The premise of the article is that the laws of the universe are exquisitely tuned for life - any small variations…

Individuals who get less than seven hours of sleep per night appear about three times as likely to develop respiratory illness following exposure to a cold virus as those who sleep eight hours or…

Two new studies show that commonly prescribed forms of postmenopausal hormone therapy may slightly accelerate the loss of brain tissue in women 65 and older beyond what normally occurs with aging.…

Keep Britain Tidy today has named McDonald's as the most littered fast food brand in the country, meaning the people who litter are more likely to be throwing their wrappers on the streets than any…

The term 'invasive species' itself connotes very bad things but conservationists recently got an expensive lesson in the one thing they claim to understand; ecology is a system and making too many…

Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker's genome is being sequenced as part of the Personal Genome Project, and he's been gazing at the results, attempting to divine some meaning in the A''s, T's, G's and…

There's nothing quite like the frustration of an unexpected traffic jam. Many of us have been the victim of a sudden slowdown on the freeway, which lasts for a few miles before clearing up for no…

The entire Universe is full of jetting Black Toroidal Objects.   A Jetting   Black  Toroidal Object is in effect a  type of   Gravitationally Open Black Hole.…

DETROIT, January 12 /PRNewswire/ -- - 100mpg Fisker Karma Makes its World Wide Premiere at the 2009 North American International Auto Show Fisker Automotive, Inc., the new American manufacturer of…

LONDON, January 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Planalytics Inc. announced today that Lloydspharmacy, a leading pharmacy chain with more than 1,700 stores in the UK, has licensed its Business Weather…