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Scientists from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have found that the atmosphere of Earth just 500 million years after its creation was not a methane-filled...

Norwegian researchers have found that even small changes in pub and bar closing hours seem to affect the number of violent incidents, stated in a press...

Original thinkers are more likely to cheat than less creative people, possibly because this talent increases their ability to rationalize their actions,...

The study of the late Middle Pleistocene archaic human cranium found in Maba, China, brings new evidence of interhuman aggression occurred 129,000 years...

A team of scientists led by chemist Robert Doyle demonstrated, for the first time, that a critical hormone that helps people feel full after eating can...

Researchers from University of California Irvine, HRL Laboratories and the California Institute of Technology have developed the world’s lightest material...

The birth of the Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains buried beneath the vast East Antarctic Ice Sheet — a puzzle mystifying scientists since their discovery...

Researchers from MIT and Children’s Hospital Boston have built cardiac patches studded with tiny gold wires that could be used to create pieces of tissue...

Scientists at Harvard University have created a material that repels just about any type of liquid, including blood and oil, and does so even under harsh...

Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, during tests of new nanomaterial called nanoblades for use in hydrogen storage, have discovered that it...

Researchers from California Institute of Technology and UCLA reported that neurons throughout the amygdala, a center in the brain known for processing...

Princeton researchers have for the first time matched images of brain activity with categories of words related to the concepts a person is thinking about....

MIT researchers found that there are parts of our brain dedicated to language and only language.  Findings of their research mark a major advance in the...

Researchers from Germany, France and the United Kingdom have engineered a material that exhibits a rare and versatile trait in magnetism at room temperature. Writing...

When a male rat senses the presence of a fetching female rat, a certain region of his brain lights up with neural activity, in anticipation of romance....

The magnitude 5.8 earthquake that struck central Virginia on August 23 was a rare event, but not a surprising one. “This is an area where small earthquakes...

MIT researchers have shown that activity in a specific part of the brain, known as the parahippocampal cortex, predicts how well people will remember a...

Harvard researchers have found that practice of processing food through cooking was likely invented by human’s early ancestors more than 1.9 million...

Facebook and Yahoo have joined forces to test a long-standing theory in sociology that everyone on Earth is connected together in a giant social network. Yahoo’s...