Engineers at the NASA Kennedy Space Center (KSC) have powered down the electrical systems on space shuttle Endeavour for the last time, as the vehicle is being prepared for delivery to its new home. The spacecraft – c... [read more >>] The 2012 Sanofi BioGENEius Challenge Canada (SBCC), which concluded on May 8, was won by a 16-year-old girl from Ontario, Canada, who developed a super-antioxidant compound. The chemical is able to neutralize vast amounts o... [read more >>] Dogs are among a select few animals that can break the species barrier, and mirror behaviors they see in humans. Sadness or joy are easily transmitted from a person to Fido, and sometimes even vice versa.Yawning is an excel... [read more >>] Bangor University experts have discovered that the human brain is perfectly capable of withholding negative information from conscious perception. The entire process is done unconsciously, so we are not aware of this behavi... [read more >>] Funny how science works! After 10 years of research and 9,000 papers published on the root cause of an eye disease called choroidal neovascularization (CNV), a shipping accident is what ultimately led a scientist to uncover... [read more >>] The number and disposition of dwarf galaxies and star clusters surrounding the Milky Way is shedding doubt on the existence of dark matter, the stuff believed to make up around a quarter of the Universe's mass-energy b... [read more >>] Famous theoretical physicist and string theorist Brian Greene has recently spoken at the TED Conference, and made a spectacular presentation covering the possibility that our Universe is part of a Multiverse, showing basic ... [read more >>] NASA astronaut and former ISS Expedition 30 Commander, Daniel Burbank, and cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin, both from the Russian Federal Space Agency (RosCosmos) have just landed safely in Kazakhstan, aft... [read more >>] Did you know that lasers can switch each other off, producing a blackout of sorts? That's OK, neither did anyone else until experts from Yale University, Princeton University, ETH Zürich and the Vienna University ... [read more >>] This may come in handy as a tip for those of you who want to come out as good-looking as possible in pictures. Scientists have demonstrated that photos taken from the left are consistently rated as being better-looking than... [read more >>] |
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