An experiment, carried out from a stratospheric balloon floating 35 km above the Brazilian jungle, to validate one of the instruments operating on the meteorological satellite MetOp was also used to…

ESA’s global land cover map, which is ten times sharper than any previous global satellite map, is now available to the public online from the GlobCover website. It is the highest resolution land…

Teenage sexuality spiked in the 1970s and 1980s and then began to decline.   Part of the reason is targeting alcohol, drugs and smoking.  It turns out that while sexual behavior can vary…

Almost anything can be considered colloquially 'addictive' if you like it enough - computer games, Reese's Peant Butter Cups, reading Scientific Blogging articles and the best science blogs on the…

Earthquakes have aftershocks — not just the geological kind but the mental kind as well. Just like veterans of war, earthquake survivors can experience post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and…

Probably tomorrow I am going to do an advanced 'primer' on all the features we have here because I know most people don't even read the FAQ - and that's okay, you shouldn't have to read a FAQ to read…

Chose my chemistry picksKnew it was coming.Let's see Science's tricksGot the list humming? 1. Cellular reprogramming2. Exoplanets3. Cancer genes4. High temperature superconducting…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, December 20 /PRNewswire/ -- - ExHealth Initiates Agreement Between Day Care Surgical Hospitals of Sharjah and Paris, Setting New Trends in Globalization of Healthcare…

CALGARY, December 20 /PRNewswire/ -- - Open-Hole Multi-Stage Completion Technology a Huge Success Packers Plus recently completed a very successful open hole multi-stage frac in China. We completed…

A research team led by Professor Michael Chazan, director of the University of Toronto's Archaeology Centre, has discovered the earliest evidence of our cave-dwelling human ancestors at the…