Science Timeline

03Mar

Dark Matter Clump Puzzles Astronomers

Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have identified what ...

01Mar

Cholesterol Drugs Get New Safety Warnings on Blood Sugar, Memory Problems

Over the past few years, anecdotal information has surfaced regarding ...

29Feb

“Icy Finger Of Death” Filmed for the First Time In Antarctica [Video]

For the first time in history, researchers have filmed nature’s ...

27Feb

Neanderthals Weren’t Killed Off By Humans, Were Crippled By Ice Age [Study]

While one school of thought has assumed for some time now that the last of ...

Diabetes Drug in Trial Stages Shows Better Glucose Control

The results of a phase 2 trial indicate that a new drug to treat type 2 ...

25Feb

Glioblastoma Multiforme Brain Tumor Vaccine Being Tested In Miami To Treat The Most Aggressive Brain Cancer

Researchers in Miami are testing what they have called a new vaccine ...

An endangered species of rattlesnake faces extinction from a deadly fungus

While most of us wouldn’t shed any tears over a dead rattlesnake the ...

24Feb

A WWII children’s gas mask comes with Mickey Mouse cover

In world War II one of the biggest worries face not just the troops but also ...

23Feb

Venus, Jupiter and Earth’s Moon Will Appear Close Together In The Night Sky This Weekend

Stargazers looking at the Western sky are in for a treat on Saturday and ...

Citrus and Stroke Risk: Good News For Fruit Fans

Although a diet higher in fruits and veggies has been linked with lower ...

Rare brain disease has Alanna Wong alternating between being 22 and being a toddler

For some of us living with how old we actually are is hard enough but what ...

Depression and Migraines Linked in Women

You may have noticed migraine headaches (severe and often crippling attacks ...

Blue-Skinned Family a Mystery Finally Solved By Geneticists

It’s strange to think that not too far back in our human lineage, ...

Martian Earthquake Could Prove There Is Life on Mars

Mars has experienced a massive earthquake that scientists believe could ...

22Feb

Never mind the Space Balls it seems NASA has discovered solid Buckyballs in space

While the Space Balls might have been a movie that came out of ...

Japanese Firm Preparing To Build Massive Space Elevator

Building an elevator that can reach all the way to space isn’t a ...

Black Hole IGR J17091-3624: Stellar-Mass Black Hole Winds Moving Nearly 20 Million MPH

Stellar-mass black holes are created by the collapse of pretty huge stars ...

21Feb

No airborne laser for you Mr. Air Force

Since lasers were first imagined it has been the not so secret woodie in the ...

300-Million-Year-Old Forest Found Under Volcanic Ash in China

A 300-million-year-old tropical forest has been discovered under volcanic ...

Ice Age Flower Revived in Russia

While some discoveries uncover therapies for devastating diseases or solve ...

Gluten Sensitivity Questioned By Italian Researchers

If the web is considered a reliable indicator, gluten sensitivity is a ...

Pancreatic Cancer Trial Drug Shows Promise in Study

An experimental drug to treat pancreatic cancer has shown promise in a new ...

20Feb

Childhood Gender Nonconformity Ups Abuse Risk, Study Says

Childhood gender nonconformity- when a prepubescent child identifies with ...

Obesity Drug Qnexa’s Merits Weighed by FDA

Despite a spate of concerns about potential birth defects, the government is ...

19Feb

Turing’s 50-year-old theory about tiger’s stripes proven true

Personally I didn’t know that the question of how a tiger gets its ...

18Feb

Using your heart to create the stem cells needed to heal your heart – huh?

Apparently there is a new technique called CADUCEUS; or for those of you ...

Stonehenge Design Inspired By Sound ‘Illusions’, Scientist Suggests

In recent years, archaeologists uncovered evidence that Stonehenge was at ...

17Feb

Insane patent of the day – giving birth to a baby using centrifugal force

I realize that all the smart people say that if you get what you think is a ...

Autism Could be Spotted by Brain Scans at as Early as Six Months

Today, a study was published in the American Journal of Psychiatry ...

16Feb

Goats Have Accents Based On Age And Demographic Groups [Study]

Researchers examining how goats communicate found that they actually carry ...

Extreme Weather Affected Four in Five Americans in Recent Years, Report Finds

In recent years, extreme weather has become both a topic of discussion as ...

Arsenic Levels in Formula Ingredient ‘Worrisome,’ Study Finds

Perhaps the most heated parenting debate involves whether to feed an infant ...

15Feb

NASA Scaling Back Mars Exploration Program

NASA has been sending missions to Mars for many years now, but it looks like ...

Wobbegong Eats Entire Shark Whole

The Wobbegong, a carpet shark in Australia, has a pretty big appetite and a ...

14Feb

CERN boosting Large Hadron Collider energy output in search of Higgs boson

The Large Hadron Collider already holds the title of the world’s most ...

13Feb

Diabetes a Growing Threat With No Single Dietary Answer

Diabetes has been in the news lately a lot, especially with the ...

Depression Drug, Suicide Link Reexamined

Teenagers are often more prone to experiencing signs and symptoms of ...

12Feb

It seems that the Crazy Cat Lady may have a medical explanation

We love our cats but there are some people who love them maybe just bit too ...

11Feb

T-Cells, our body’s warrior in the war against cancer [Video]

Our bodies are pretty incredible and for the most they are amazingly ...

10Feb

Weight-Loss Drug in France May Have Killed 1,300, Study Says

Over the 33 years it was available on the market before the drug Mediator ...

09Feb

Popular Cancer Drug Being Used To Reverse Alzheimer’s In Mice

Researchers in the United States have been treating Mice with the popular ...

Zebra Have Stripes Because Of Pesky Horseflies

Those silly stripes on Zebra’s aren’t just for decoration, a new ...

Chronic Pain More Common in Obese Patients, Study Indicates

Aside from increased risk of diabetes, heart disease and your sister ...

Prostate Cancer, Heart Disease Link Probed

A new study out of the Division of Urology at Duke Cancer Institute ...

08Feb

Scientists gets further evidence that Mars once had oceans

Mars, our neighbor, once the dreams of science fiction writers and ...

Oldest Living Thing Discovered by Scientists, Is Relatively Ordinary

DNA sequencing has located the oldest living thing on Earth, and scientists ...

Carina Nebula: New Photo Reveals Hidden Secrets of Majestica Nebula

Astronomers have combined hundreds of images to provide most dramatic and ...

06Feb

Mars too dry to support life, researchers say

Could some form of microbial life possibly exist on Mars? According to the ...

You ever wondered what semi-digested Ramen looks like inside your body? [Video]

I am pretty sure that this isn’t a question that you ever thought you ...

Breastfeeding Increases Lung Function, Combats Asthma, Study Says

Breastfeeding is associated with a great many benefits to mother and child ...