Imagine a miniature drone that fits on your fingertip, complete with a built-in camera and microphone. The possibilities are endless: it could serve the military
“Love at first sight” – it lies at the core of classic fairy tales, but recent research into animal mating habits shows that this phenomenon
Johannesburg, South Africa: lightning strikes a 9-year-old brother and his sister who had gone out to play. The boy dies in transit to the hospital;
This year, the cold has been much more than a mere nuisance, given the early-January polar vortex that affected many Americans. When temperatures drop, the
Identical twins share exactly the same genome, and are usually raised under the same conditions during the early parts of their lives. Thus, it is
All stars die, but not all stars “explode.” A supernova is a violent explosion that marks the end of a star’s life cycle. But our
We gulp dozens of times each day. We swallow our food and we swallow our beverages, unaware of the evolutionary wonder that is the alimentary
Scientists at Yale University, led by Dr. Rajita Sinha, have shown that males and females respond differently to cocaine addiction treatment. Females have higher rates of success on various drugs while males are harder to treat.
Every now and then, we come across scientific discoveries that earn a collective double-take from humanity. The first man on the moon; the discovery of
Last month, researchers at the BICEP2 observatory at the South Pole detected gravitational waves for the first time. Their finding provides support for the theory of inflation, which holds that the universe expanded extraordinarily rapidly in the very first moments of its existence.