The ability to learn and to establish new memories is essential to our daily existence and identity; enabling us to navigate through the world. The researchers at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill University and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has captured the first image mechanism, specifically protein translation, which underlies long-term memory [...]

Anyone who’s read my posts for a while knows that I’m in favor of bans of texting and emailing while driving, though I will admit to engaging in the activity myself.
On Wednesday Vlingo, a firm specializing in voice recognition technology, specifically for the mobile market, released a report called “Consumer Text Messaging Habits.”

The corporate sponsored creation of a disease is not a new phenomenon, but the making of female sexual dysfunction is the freshest, clearest example we have.

Scientists have reported evidence of a large ornithopod dinosaur, as well as a herd of 11 sauropods, walking along a Mesozoic coastal mudflat in what is now the Republic of Yemen - the first dinosaur tracks on the Arabian Peninsula.

Can’t buy Yahoo! (at least for now)? Buy search users instead.
Microsoft has launched a service called “Live Search Cashback.” The program is linked to Microsoft’s acquisition of Jellyfish.com last year, a cashback site similar to eBates, where rebates of varying percentages are given for purchases clicked-through from the site. This probably explains why the [...]

A physics professor here has resurrected the mystery of the Shroud of Turin, the fabled burial cloth of Christ that 20 years ago scientists declared a fake.

On Monday , the Met Office Hadely Center, British Antarctic Survey, and the U.K. government released a Google Earth application that shows the effects of climate change over the next 100 years.

The study evaluated levels of arsenic, which can be toxic at high levels, in rice worldwide.

How can such smart and successful people disagree by decades on a topic so vital ? Is it possible they use different data sources? Do they mean different things when they say “Peak Oil”?

Researchers at the University of Illinois report this week that a plant compound found in abundance in celery and green peppers can disrupt a key component of the inflammatory response in the brain. The findings have implications for research on aging and diseases such as Alzheimer’s and multiple sclerosis.