Science & Technology
Greedy cormorant trying to swallow a 5 lb pike
A greedy cormorant came inland for a meal at the Sevenoaks Wildfowl Reserve in Kent, UK, and tried desperately to gulp down a huge...
More than 100 dolphins beached off Cape Cod, Massachusetts
More than 100 dolphins have now beached off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, as mammals continue to get inexplicably stranded on the region's beaches. Three of them...
Clara Lazen, 10, may be the youngest in history to discover a new molecule
Clara Lazen, a 10-year-old girl from Missouri, may be the youngest in history to discover a new molecule after a brief introduction on molecular...
Shifts in Earth’s axis are enough to trigger the ice ages, Harvard Prof. Peter Huybers proves
Peter Huybers, a Harvard earth sciences professor, has finally proved the idea that slight shifts in Earth's axis are enough to trigger the ice ages...
Left-wingers are more intelligent than right-wingers, says a controversial Canadian study
A controversial Canadian study says that right-wingers (conservatives) tend to be less intelligent than left-wingers, and people with low childhood intelligence tend to grow...
True love lasts for ten years, say scientists
A new research by New York's Stony Brook University and Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California, has found that even after ten years of...
iOptik, the contact lenses which focus 3D screens directly into user’s eyeballs could be on sale in 2014
U.S. company Innovega announced that its iOptik contact lenses which focus 3D screens directly into people's eyeballs could be on sale as early as...
Drug addiction could be linked to brain abnormalities, scientists at the University of Cambridge say
Scientists at the University of Cambridge suggest that abnormalities in the brain may make some people more likely to become drug addicts. The researchers found...
The world’s largest virtual telescope have been created by linking four telescopes
Astronomers at the Paranal observatory in Chile have created the world's largest virtual optical telescope linking four telescopes, so that they operate as a...
Anonymous intercepted conference call between FBI and Scotland Yard
Anonymous has released a recording of a conference call between the FBI and Scotland Yard in which they discuss efforts against hacking. The conference call, said to...
Barred spiral galaxy image captured by Hubble space telescope
An image of a "barred spiral" galaxy that could help us better understand our own Milky Way has been captured by Hubble space telescope. Most...
A quick 21-question Alzheimer test can reveal if your loved one is at risk
A quick test that tells if your loved one is at risk of Alzheimer’s disease has been devised by Banner Sun Health Research Institute...
“Supergiant” amphipod found in the waters of Kermadec Trench in New Zealand
A “supergiant” crustacean has been found lurking 7 km down in the waters of the Kermadec Trench off New Zealand. The crustacean - called a...
Huge Burmese python caught in Everglades before it could lay 59 baby snakes eggs
A huge Burmese python was caught by rangers in Everglades, Florida, before it could lay eggs containing the 59 super-predators inside her. The image was...
Rocky planet with liquid water and temperature similar to Earth discovered by ESO
Astronomers from European Southern Observatory (ESO) have found a planet which is one of the best candidates for life ever found by telescopes on Earth. The...
Chemosat was used to treat the first liver cancer patients
Hepatic Chemosat Delivery System was used to treat the first patients at the European Institute of Oncology (Instituto Europeo di Oncologia – IEO), Milan,...
Women’s sex drives decline gradually over time while men’s stay at around the same level
The authors of a new study say women's sex drives gradually ebb over time while a man's stays at around the same level. In fact,...
Drive-by emails virus is threatening PC’s even users don’t open their attachments
A new virus is threatening PCs via emails which infect PCs without the user having to open an attachment. The user will not even be...
Ulcer drugs are linked to hip fractures among women
A research team from Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, suggests that women who take certain ulcer drugs have a small increased risk of hip fractures...
Prostate cancer progression might be prevented by exercise
Exercise has beneficial influence on over 180 genes, including those that repair DNA and suppress tumor growth, and this might lead to prevention or...
First detailed pictures of uncontacted Mashco-Piro tribe in Manú National Park from Peru
The incredible pictures of an isolated Amazon tribe are the most detailed ever recorded of a previously uncontacted Indian tribe in the remote forests...
Drinking one can of diet fizzy drink every day can increase the risk of a heart attack or stroke
Researchers from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and Columbia University Medical Center say that drinking just a single can of diet...
Striking method to decode the words people have in their mind developed at UC Berkeley
Scientists at University of California Berkeley have demonstrated a striking method to reconstruct words, based on the brain waves of patients thinking of those...
EU will spend 3 million Euros to research the potential of insects as an alternative source of proteins
European Union has decided to spend 3 million Euros to research “the potential of insects as an alternative source of protein”. EU says that research...
Florida: huge pythons and other large snakes are wiping out the mammal population
An increasing population of huge pythons, many of them pets that were turned loose by their owners when they got too big, appears to...
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