Like trailers for the coming attraction, new images show asteroid 2012 DA14 on its way to a record-close approach to Earth on Feb. 15. One image, taken by amateur astronomer Dave Herald of Murrumbateman, Australia, …

Ancient languages hold a treasure trove of information about the culture, politics and commerce of millennia past. Yet, reconstructing them to reveal clues into human history can require decades of painstaking work. Now, scientists at …

Kira Radinsky, a PhD scientist from the Faculty of Computer Science, at 25 has a predictably bright future ahead, just as the topic of her research. Over the past few weeks, we learned from the …

Mars Rock Takes Unusual Form. On Mars, as on Earth, sometimes things can take on an unusual appearance. A case in point is a shiny-looking rock seen in a recent image from NASA’s Curiosity Mars …

We’ve heard the clichés: “It was love at first sight,” “It’s inner beauty that truly matters,” and “Opposites attract.”But what’s really at work in selecting a romantic or sexual partner? University of Notre Dame Sociologist Elizabeth …

Greenpeace Italy released a new green ranking guide today, which revealed major differences between the policies of high-end fashion brands on toxic water pollution and deforestation. Valentino topped the list of 15 fashion houses, while …

New research shows that genetically modified tobacco plants can be used to produce safe protective antibodies against the deadly rabies virus. This may provide a relatively inexpensive cure for rabies, which would benefit patients in …

Using publicly available data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope, astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) have found that six percent of red dwarf stars have habitable, Earth-sized planets. Since red dwarfs are the …

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced a time-lapse movie of a mysterious protostar that behaves like a flashing light. Every 25.34 days, the object, designated LRLL 54361, unleashes a burst of light which propagates …

A small, two-wheeled robot has been driven by a male silkmoth to track down the sex pheromone usually given off by a female mate. The robot has been used to characterise the silkmoth’s tracking behaviours …

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope – with a little help from an amateur astronomer – has produced one of the best views yet of nearby spiral galaxy Messier 106. Located a little over 20 million …

The original jeans brand introduces innovative denim collection made from recycled bottles as the next chapter in its sustainable design iniziative. Today, the Levi’s® brand (www.levi.com) introduced a new collection of denim incorporating post-consumer waste, …

Scientists at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute have for the first time visualised the molecular changes in a critical cell death protein that force cells to die. The finding provides important insights into how …

Call it a Saturnian version of the Ouroboros, the mythical serpent that bites its own tail. In a new paper that provides the most detail yet about the life and death of a monstrous thunder-and-lightning …

The risk of hospitalisation or death from heart disease is 32% lower in vegetarians than people who eat meat and fish, according to a new study from the University of Oxford. Heart disease is the …

 …lesbians, gays, and bisexuals are in better mental and physical health than others.  “Coming out is no longer a matter of popular debate but a matter of public health” – lead author Robert-Paul Juster. Lesbians, …

An important component of recovery and prevention for cardiac patients is stress management. One powerfully effective technique taught by Jessica Psujek Wakefield, a health counselor at Duke, is mindfulness meditation.“People can use the technique to …

Molecular vibrations, rather than molecular shape, give substances their distinct smell according to a new study by UCL scientists. In a study designed to find out how smell is written into a molecule’s structure, scientists …