A weak electrical signal can boost people’s powers of mental arithmetic over a period of months, suggests a small scale study at the University of Oxford.The technique involves placing electrodes on the scalp of the …

A UK-Canadian team of scientists has discovered ancient pockets of water, which have been isolated deep underground for billions of years and contain abundant chemicals known to support life. This water could be some of …

Just two weeks into the nineteen week application period, more than seventy-eight thousand people have applied to the Mars One astronaut selection program in the hope of becoming a Mars settler in 2023. Mars One …

Statement Highlights: Owning a pet, particularly a dog, could reduce your risk of heart disease. It is unclear whether owning a pet directly reduces risk.Despite the likely positive link, people shouldn’t get a pet solely …

On May 12, 2013, the sun emitted a significant solar flare, peaking at 10 p.m. EDT. This flare is classified as an X1.7, making it the first X-class flare of 2013. The flare was also …

Parents know that crying babies usually calm down when they are picked up and carried, but why is that? In a study published today, researchers from the RIKEN Brain Science Institute show that human babies …

Exposing skin to sunlight may help to reduce blood pressure, cut the risk of heart attack and stroke, a study suggests. Researchers have shown that when our skin is exposed to the sun’s rays, a …

Researchers used a multicollector ion microprobe to study hydrogen-deuterium ratios in lunar rock and on Earth. Their conclusion: The Moon’s water did not come from comets but was already present on Earth 4.5 billion years …

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has found signs of Earth-like planets in an unlikely place: the atmospheres of a pair of burnt-out stars in a nearby star cluster. The white dwarf stars are being polluted …

Earth scientists from Freie Universität are working with the German Aerospace Center (DLR) to create a high-resolution map of the surface of Mars.For ten years now, the Mars Express mission orbiter has been maintaining radio …

NASA EDGE: Solar Max-Storm Warning. Solar Max-Storm Warning, this year’s Sun Earth Day theme. How do scientists and engineers work together to study the Sun Earth connection? Are other planets in the solar system affected …

While the search continues for the Fountain of Youth, researchers may have found the body’s “fountain of aging”: the brain region known as the hypothalamus. For the first time, scientists at Albert Einstein College of …

In culmination of a decade’s work, RoboBees achieve vertical takeoff, hovering, and steering. In the very early hours of the morning, in a Harvard robotics laboratory last summer, an insect took flight. Half the size …

The ALPHA collaboration at CERN1 has published a paper in Nature Communications describing the first direct analysis of how antimatter is affected by gravity. ALPHA was the first experiment to trap atoms of antihydrogen — …

NASA is inviting members of the public to submit their names and a personal message online for a DVD to be carried aboard a spacecraft that will study the Martian upper atmosphere. The DVD will …

Many scientists have thought that dinosaur predecessors missed the race to fill habitats emptied when nine out of 10 species disappeared during the Earth’s largest mass extinction, approximately 252 million years ago. The thinking was …

As temperatures warm, plants release gases that help form clouds and cool the atmosphere, according to research from IIASA and the University of Helsinki. The new study, published in Nature Geoscience, identified a negative feedback loop …

Liver cells, in particular the parenchymal hepatocytes, are widely used in the laboratory to assess the potential toxicity or efficacy of drugs. Hepatocytes inside the body have a nearly unlimited capacity for replication. When as …