For stressed bees, the glass is half empty! When people are depressed or anxious, they are much more likely to see their glass as half empty than half full and new research has shown those …

People with primary insomnia may be able to find relief by wearing a cap that cools the brain during sleep, suggests a research abstract that will be presented Monday, June 13, in Minneapolis, Minn., at …

Prolonged Television Viewing Linked to Increased Risk of Type 2 Diabetes, Cardiovascular Disease, and Premature Death. Boston, MA – Watching television is the most common daily activity apart from work and sleep in many parts …

Some hardcore carnivores have a hard time finding meat alternatives such as soy protein or tofu burgers to be palatable. But non-meat eaters may lose their appetite along with their carnivorous friends over this one …

Using the deepest X-ray image ever taken, astronomers found the first direct evidence that massive black holes were common in the early universe. This discovery from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory shows that very young black …

A team of researchers from the Universities of Oxford and Vienna have tested the technical skills and innovation abilities of two of the most intelligent birds known, kea parrots and New Caledonian crows. New Caledonian …

Apple peel makes mice mighty. For Popeye, spinach was the key to extra muscle. For the mice in a new University of Iowa study, it was apples, or more precisely a waxy substance called ursolic …

New study shows that babies can perform sophisticated analyses of how the physical world should behave. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Over the past two decades, scientists have shown that babies only a few months old have …

Traffic puts drivers under huge physiological stress according to new independent research commissioned by TomTom – and men suffer seven times more than women. On the day that TomTom launches its Break Free campaign, research …

Extinct sea cow fossil found in Philippines. Italian scientists have discovered the bones of an extinct sea cow species that lived over 20 million years ago in a Philippines cave.Limestone rock above the waters of …

Imaging experts funded by the Space Shuttle Program and located at NASA’s Ames Research Center prepared this video by merging nearly 20,000 photographs taken by a set of six cameras capturing 250 images per …

Nematoda from the terrestrial deep subsurface of South Africa. Since its discovery over two decades ago, the deep subsurface biosphere has been considered to be the realm of single-cell organisms, extending over three kilometres into …

University of Queensland (UQ) postdoctoral research fellow Dr Ruth Schulz and her colleagues have created a pair of robots that have their own language. The ‘Lingodroids’ are a pair of mobile robots that communicate by …

Attending frequently with medically unexplained symptoms is distressing for both patient and doctor and effective treatment or management options are limited: one in five patients have symptoms that remain unexplained by conventional medicine. Studies have …

A Monash student has made a breakthrough in the field of astrophysics, discovering what has until now been described as the Universe’s ‘missing mass’. Amelia Fraser-McKelvie, working within a team at the Monash School of …

Washington, D.C.—The Moon has much more water than previously thought, a team of scientists led by Carnegie’s Erik Hauri has discovered. Their research, published May 26 in Science Express, shows that inclusions of magma trapped …

Happy guys finish last, says new study on sexual attractiveness. Women find happy guys significantly less sexually attractive than swaggering or brooding men, according to a new University of British Columbia study that helps to …

Patterns of receptive and creative cultural activities and their association with perceived health, anxiety, depression and satisfaction with life among adults: the HUNT study, Norway. Background; Cultural participation has been used both in governmental health …