In an episode of “The Simpsons,” mad scientist Professor Frink demonstrates his latest creation: a sarcasm detector. “Sarcasm detector? That’s a really useful invention,” says another character, the...

Here's a curious press release from NASA: NASA will hold a news conference at 2 p.m. EST on Thursday, Dec. 2, to discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial...

These are remarkable statistics. Even though heavy drinking is associated with higher risk for cirrhosis and several types of cancer (particularly cancers in the mouth and esophagus), heavy drinkers...

ONE of the problems about locusts is the unpredictability of their behaviour. If all goes according to plan, however, a team of biologists and mathematicians from the University of Sydney will soon...

Plato was the Einstein of Greece’s Golden Age and his work founded Western culture and science. Dr Jay Kennedy’s findings are set to revolutionise the history of the origins of Western thought. Dr...

Surgeons have grafted bone-like metal prostheses onto the legs of a cat who lost its feet in a horrible accident. Now Oscar can walk again. Cat lovers may want tissues at the ready - things are about...

A story ("A Game Of Cat And Mouse") on The Economist of June 3rd, which I only got to read earlier today, opens like this: IF AN alien bug invaded the brains of half the population, hijacked their...

Here, from SETI, the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence - I'm sure we all know the joke that goes along the lines of "I'd be happy to look for intelligence outside the boundaries of Earth whenever...

As on every other night, while Big Ear was searching the skies for an alien signal, its observations were being recorded on a printout sheet. A long list of letters and numbers was continuously being...

They discovered that cultural differences in how love is expressed don’t change the brain’s neurological reaction to romantic love. The scans showed that love lights up the brain in the same manner...

On May 20th, J. Craig Venter and his team at J.C Venter Institute announced the creation of a cell controlled by a synthetic genome in a paper published in SCIENCE. As science historian George Dyson...

The federal government is spending $2.6 million to make sure prostitutes in China drink less on the job. That's the goal of a five-year study, bankrolled by the National Institutes of Health, designed...

Arturo Vidich, Sofy Yuditskaya, and I needed a way to read brains for our Mental Block project last fall. After looking at the options, we decided that hacking a toy EEG would be the cheapest / fastest...

Hat off. This is the beginning of a long, long ride. The aircraft actually made a couple of "flea hops" on early December last year. This morning at 10:27, the Solar Impulse HB-SIA took off from Payerne...

As we become ever more reliant on GPS systems, the art of navigation is being lost. Tristan Gooley wants to do something about it. The Natural Navigator is full of advice on how to read nature's signposts...

Luxemburg and Hut’s goal was to show other scientists at the meeting that the videogame controller can be a legitimate piece of scientific equipment that they should consider deploying in all types...

Ci stiamo superando: il vicepresidente del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche è un creazionista antidarwinista (e non da ieri). Charles Darwin mette in imbarazzo il Consiglio nazionale delle ricerche...

Video: Bat fellatio The video is sexually explicit and was edited and soundtracked by the researchers. Female short-nosed fruit bats have been observed performing fellatio on their partners during...

"A British film about Charles Darwin has failed to find a US distributor because his theory of evolution is too controversial for American audiences, according to its producer." says the Telegraph...