Do bats have animal magnetism? Yes, say researchers from the Universities of Leeds and Princeton who say they have discovered that bats use a magnetic substance in their body called magnetite as an…

Scientists funded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) have found that, when jazz musicians are engaged in the highly creative and spontaneous activity…

Turning just one Sumatran province's forests and peat swamps into pulpwood and palm oil plantations is generating more annual greenhouse gas emissions than the Netherlands and rapidly driving the…

Considerable attention has been paid to the effects of endocrine disrupting chemicals in aquatic environments, but rather less attention has been given to routes of contamination on land. A new study…

PERTH, Australia, February 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Nido Petroleum Ltd (Nido) is pleased to announce that the Galoc 3 horizontal production well flowed oil to the surface unassisted at a maximum rate of 5…

Think writing here is tough? Gawker Media fired someone they only hired a few months ago. Fired? From blogging? I'd rather work for free, thanks.

Anthropologists from Wheaton College (Illinois) and The Field Museum have discovered how the ancient Maya produced an unusual and widely studied blue pigment that was used in offerings, pottery,…

UXBRIDGE, England, February 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Otsuka Pharmaceutical Europe Ltd. (OPEL) announced today that the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) has accepted a marketing authorisation application…

Dovetailing nicely with the autism spat on Seth's article, Wired tells us that scientists are reconsidering what they think they know.

COPEHNAGEN, Denmark, February 26 /PRNewswire/ -- - Genmab Announced Today the Purchase Agreement Entered Into Between Genmab and PDL BioPharma Under Which Genmab Would Acquire PDL's Manufacturing…