Chronic stress affects the overall structure of the brain, including size, and its functionality. The damage is discernible right down to the level of genes. | Continue reading
Australian scientists analyzed the genetic make-up of the greater glider and found the animal is actually three different species. | Continue reading
Study says happy people are less likely to experience memory decline with age. | Continue reading
Just in time for Halloween, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has shared their collection of eerie sounds our Solar System makes. | Continue reading
Researchers claim newborns have brains prewired to be receptive to seeing words and letters, laying the groundwork at birth for humans to learn how to read. | Continue reading
Anticipated rise in atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) by the year 2100 may directly harm our ability to think. | Continue reading
In these trying times, having access to a garden is a top-tier blessing. A study has found that having a garden and spending time in it increases our sense of well-being. | Continue reading
Birds never crash into each other because they always veer right while approaching head-on. Researchers believe their findings may have enormous potential in designing automated anti-crash systems on aircraft and autonomous drones. | Continue reading
Resident microbes can restructure body chemistry by changing how genes express. A comparison between normal and germ-free mice revealed that as much as 70 percent of molecules in a mouse are determined by its gut microbiome. | Continue reading
Engineers at MIT have designed a framework for deciding the strategy best suited for deflecting an Earth-bound asteroid. | Continue reading
Study says “BPA-free" plastic products still aren't safe for people to use. | Continue reading
The advancement of AI technologies has revolutionized and dramatically transformed our lives. It has facilitated the creation of new employment opportunities, a number of which are expected to hit the ground running. But, can our excessive dependency on this sort of technology ba … | Continue reading
Parents’ socioeconomic status and children’s inherited DNA differences are powerful predictors of academic success. | Continue reading
Evidence suggests the Earth was already unstable and under stress even before the asteroid impact that triggered the Cretaceous-Paleogene, or K-Pg, mass extinction 66 million years ago. | Continue reading
Study reveals that moments after we sleep, blood flows out of the brain, then waves of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) come rushing in to wash our brain. | Continue reading
The Comment Thread Prediction Model (CTPM) uses Hawkes process to predict how successful a post will be on social media. | Continue reading
The new measurement puts the proton's radius to around 0.833 femtometers, which is 4 percent less than the previously accepted figure. | Continue reading
Plants panic when it rains because moisture is the primary driver of diseases among them. If the leaves are wet for an extended period of time, pathogen would likely find its way there. | Continue reading
3D Bioprinting is an emerging field in regenerative medicine, which aims to offer spatial placement of cells, proteins, DNA, and other active biological ingredients with great precision. | Continue reading
India-Pakistan tensions have been running high over the past few years. But what would happen if the two nuclear rivals suddenly go head-to-head? As indicated by computer simulations, the picture is extremely grim. Not only would it kill millions, but it would also push Earth’s t … | Continue reading
Aspirin is a pain reliever that's been around for decades. It also helps keep the heart problems at bay. But, did you know it can also protect your lungs from harms caused by air pollution? | Continue reading
Doomsday clock is a hypothetical representation of how near humanity is to a worldwide catastrophe. It was designed to explore the implications of the nuclear weapons and raise global awareness, rather than predicting the actual doom. The Clock has been maintained since 1947. | Continue reading
The device stimulates the skin with mild electric pulses, which induce dormant follicles to reactivate hair production. It can be fitted under the crown of a baseball cap. | Continue reading
The sheer volume of eel DNA picked up from every location sampled suggests Loch Ness monster could be a giant eel. Also, the most famous photo of Nessie was later revealed to be a fake: it was a picture of a toy submarine with a fake dinosaur head. | Continue reading
Poor dietary habits have a profound effect on vision. Study says consumption of junk food, strict veganism can lead to irreversible blindness. | Continue reading
Scientists have identified one plausible theory that could explain Loch Ness Monster sightings. It will be revealed at a media conference in Drumnadrochit next Thursday. | Continue reading
Medicine has its own language. If you are aspiring to pursue a successful career in the medical field, it is crucial that you know all the essential medical terms. | Continue reading
The Seabin operates with its mouth sitting at water level, while the pump, catch bag and filter all sit below the surface. The pump pulls water in from around the Seabin, bringing it across an outer lip and into the collector itself. This process forms a sort of skimming effect — … | Continue reading
Using uranium-lead dating of a zircon rock found in Western Australia, and other evidence from meteorites, scientist have determined that the Earth is at least 4.54 billion years old, with an error of 0.1 billion years. | Continue reading
A team at British Antarctic Survey revealed that the marine ecosystem around Antarctica has returned to its pre-extinction levels. They studied nearly 3000 fossils. | Continue reading
Engineers at MIT are in the throes of developing a new kind of robot equipped with the ability to feel objects using its sense of sight, and see them though touch. | Continue reading
Study has found that when gravity is combined with quantum mechanics, no global symmetry is possible. Out of four fundamental forces in nature: gravity, electromagnetism, strong force, and weak force, gravity remains the least justifiable to be explained at the quantum level. | Continue reading
Dogs have about 530 million cortical neurons while cats have about 250 million, meaning “dogs have the biological capability of doing much more complex and flexible things with their lives than cats can.” | Continue reading
To see how uncertain the things are in the quantum world, new physics experiment puts Heisenberg's famous Uncertainty Principle to the test. | Continue reading
Error-free operation is demonstrated at 10 Gb/s for Write functions with 6.2 dB and Read with 0.4 dB power, making it the fastest RAM cell. | Continue reading
Can poverty affect your genes? Of course, it can. A study has found that growing up poor can affect nearly 10 percent of the genes in the genome, and they stick with you for life. Even if you've grown rich, your body will always remember your experiences of being poor. | Continue reading
As the old saying goes, the only things certain in life are death and taxes. While death is inevitable, the quality of life you experience until death is often within an individual’s control. | Continue reading
Researchers have discovered microbes in the human gut that produce two enzymes that can be used to transform type A blood into the universally accepted type O. The enzymes work more efficiently than any of the enzymes studied previously. | Continue reading
When you get electrocuted, it’s actually the moving electrons in you, creating a 'current', and these moving electrons are what typically cause harm to a person through tissue or nervous system damage. | Continue reading
Humans learned how to start making fires using a magnifying glass to concentrate sunlight around 7th century BC, but the first recorded use of solar energy came four centuries later. | Continue reading
Physicists have demonstrated an experimental set-up of a system that predicts quantum jump, and even reverses the process. Schrödinger's cat lives! | Continue reading
Science fiction has conjured up countless pictures of what life could look like if humans could colonize space. But, is space colonization even possible? | Continue reading
DNA is the blueprint of life - meaning it stores all information that makes up any living organism. But, how does DNA store genetic information? | Continue reading
Stem cells in brain’s hypothalamus have been found to control aging throughout the body. The number of cells declines as one ages, which accelerates aging. But replenishing them slows and even reverses various aspect of aging. | Continue reading
Researchers have observed one of the fundamental processes by which bacteria rapidly evolve to become antibiotic resistant. Understanding the exact mechanism they use to rapidly evolve new traits, develop antibiotic resistance and how they share DNA can help us concoct ways to re … | Continue reading
A gene is a segment of DNA that contains a set of instructions to make molecules that organisms need to survive. In a process called gene expression, these instructions are converted into a protein or functional RNA. So what is gene expression? And, how do genes express themselve … | Continue reading
How Long Has Gravity Existed? Asked by Aine, aged 13, as part of the Curious Kids - a series by The Conversation which gives children of all ages the chance to have their questions about the world answered by experts. | Continue reading
Fire is our sensory experience of a chemical reaction called combustion. Fire stimulates a lot of our senses at a time that it makes us create a scenario we expect to come from a physical thing. Combustion causes that to happen using fuel, heat and oxygen. | Continue reading