Other Sciences News

Aug 30, 2013 by News Staff

An international team of researchers using radar data from NASA’s Operation IceBridge has discovered a previously unmapped canyon hidden for all of human history beneath 1.2 miles (2 km) of ice covering Greenland. This is a 3D visualization of the giant canyon in Greenland (Jonathan Bamber / University of Bristol / NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio). According to a paper published in the journal Science,...

Aug 27, 2013 by News Staff

Language can play a powerful role in what we see, say Prof Gary Lupyan from the University of Wisconsin and Emily Ward from Yale University. These images...

Aug 27, 2013 by News Staff

According to a new mice study reported in the Journal of Neuroscience, immune system cells called to the brain in response to stress lead to anxiety symptoms. This...

Aug 26, 2013 by News Staff

A collector from Austria has found what experts say is the oldest globe to show the Americas. The ostrich egg globe was made in 1504. Scientists say the...

Aug 23, 2013 by News Staff

A new animal study reported in the Journal of Neuroscience suggests that nocturnal light exposure may induce depressive responses and alter neuronal structure. The...

Aug 23, 2013 by News Staff

According to Dr Peter Jonason from the University of Western Sydney and his colleagues, people who stay up late at night are more likely to display anti-social...

Aug 22, 2013 by News Staff

Researchers at the Loyola University Medical Center have reported the first known case of a patient hallucinating music that was familiar to people around...

Aug 22, 2013 by News Staff

Researchers from Japan and Indonesia have developed the first scientific method to verify authenticity of exotic Kopi Luwak, the world’s most expensive...

Aug 15, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of researchers reporting in the journal Analytical Chemistry has developed an innovative complex method for verifying the authenticity and rooting...

Aug 15, 2013 by News Staff

According to a large multinational team of researchers, West Antarctica began emerging from the last Ice Age about 20,000 to 22,000 years ago, well before...

Aug 12, 2013 by News Staff

According to a team of scientists from the University of North Carolina and the University of California, Los Angeles, different types of happiness have...

Aug 11, 2013 by News Staff

New research reported in the journal Nature Neuroscience says that oxytocin, a hormone that promotes feelings of love, social bonding and well-being, can...

Aug 8, 2013 by News Staff

Q-glass, a new solid alloy that has been discovered in a rapidly cooled mixture of aluminum, iron and silicon, is neither a pure glass, a crystal, nor...

Aug 7, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

According to a study published in journal Nature Communications, sleep deprivation can make us crave junk food more than healthy food. The study sheds...

Aug 6, 2013 by News Staff

Using an atomic force microscope and a method called thermochemical nanolithography, scientists have painted the Mona Lisa on a surface about one-third...

Jul 30, 2013 by News Staff

According to a new study reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the threat of infants being killed by rival males is the key...

Jul 26, 2013 by News Staff

A new study published in the journal Current Biology provides the first scientific evidence that the lunar cycle can influence human sleep. New study shows...

Jul 23, 2013 by News Staff

European scientists reporting in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences have identified how unique neural pathways in the brain allows...

Jul 22, 2013 by News Staff

According to researchers reporting in the journal Nature Geoscience, global warmings between 5 – 3 million years ago may have caused parts of the...

Jul 15, 2013 by News Staff

Volcanologists analyzing data on a 2009 eruption sequence at Alaska’s Redoubt Volcano have detected unusually high frequencies of a signal called harmonic...