The crashing of the enormous fluked tail on the surface of the ocean is a “calling card” of modern whales. Living whales have no back legs and use their front legs as 'flippers' that allow them to…

Almost every bad thing a teenager does gets attributed to the 'crowd' they hang out with - few parents confess to having the troublemaker kid. Now an RTI International researcher says that goes for…

Fort Miami wasn't a fort at all, according to discoveries made this summer by members of the University of Cincinnati's Ohio Valley Archaeology Field School project, who spent weeks working at the…

The phenomenon of "shimmering" in giant honeybees, in which hundreds or even thousands of individual honeybees flip their abdomens upwards within a split-second to produce a Mexican Wave-like ("…

Endeavour International Corporation today announced a discovery at the site of its Noatun C prospect located in PL107 in the Norwegian North Sea. The well encountered a gas condensate column in the…

Children who wear glasses are being bullied at school, to the extent that some play truant to avoid playground taunts - and it's because of the glasses, not because some kids are just not cool, says…

All 3,000 Virgin Trains staff (that get seen by customers) will be sporting a new look today following the delivery of new uniforms. The difference? All of the Wensum-supplied garments are 'eco-…

To build a hospital, nuclear power station or a large dam you need to know the possible earthquake risks of the terrain. Now, researchers from the Universities of Granada and Jaen, alongside…

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, and CLIFTON PARK, New York, September 13 /PRNewswire/ -- - On2(R) video delivers over 50% bandwidth savings compared to leading H.264 implementations IBC -- On2 Technologies…

A team of scientists from the University of Sunderland have developed a hydrogen-powered car that they believe is a significant step forward in creating a mass-produced 'green' machine. The team, led…