Surprising Science

Electronics manufacturers are banking on the successes of recent 3D theater hits such as Avatar to offer the same “surround vision” experience in your own home with 3D TVs.

Being a spaceship pilot could be a “regular job”, comparable to driving a bus or flying an airplane, in just 20 years time according to a new report.

Technological advances have led to a dramatic fall in the weight of women’s handbags, according to research from a department store chain.

There has been some pushback about that Nature paper which claimed there’s a power-law “signal” in the seemingly random events of guerrilla wars against standing armies. They really don’t like […]

Archaeologists are trying to unravel the meaning of mysterious text and images inscribed on a rare 400-year-old slate tablet discovered at Jamestown, Virginia.

When it comes to improving overall quality of life, few people pay much attention to the simplest of social graces. Sure, there are plenty of annoying, rude gestures plaguing practically […]

A new study finds doctors who are stressed and tired treat their patients more mechanistically–prescribing pills, tests and other technical fixes instead of taking the time to see people as […]

As many as half of us bring our work home with us regularly according to new research by the University of Toronto which describes “the stress associated with work-life balance”.

Deadly scorpion venom is being used to create new eco-friendly pesticides as some types of venom are harmful only to insects and unlikely to harm larger creatures.

A rare species of fungus-farming ants have given up sex altogether, reproducing asexually in female-only colonies. But can asexual species’ go the distance?

If modern medicine is simply the application of universal scientific knowledge to human bodies, then treatments for the same physical problems should be roughly similar all over the world. Instead, […]

Government pledges to halt growing biodiversity losses by this year have failed and the desecration of animal species is becoming even more severe.

Crystal formations on the moon’s surface, found by India’s Chandrayaan-1 probe, prove that “a rolling ocean of magma once engulfed the rocky body of our satellite.”

A new human sex hormone that has been found in men could lead to the development of the male birth control pill, researchers have said.

Paleontologist Peter Ward, professor of biology at the University of Washington and an expert on mass extinction events, stopped by Big Think today to discuss nothing less than the fate […]

Product safety officers are launching an investigation into the presence of the toxic metal cadmium in children’s jewelry import from China after evidence of the substance was found.

A cure may have been found for a defective alcohol metabolism enzyme that affects and estimated 1 billion people worldwide, according to research by the NIAAA.

A New Jersey company called TrueCompanion has unveiled the world’s first “sex robot” – a woman replica called “Roxxxy” who has different personalities and responds to touch.

The United Arab Emirates has issued a law restricting the use of tobacco and its marketing unless specific standard requirements are met.

Do you feel lost and fidgety when without your smart phone? Is closing your laptop at night becoming an irksome chore? Well, you’re not alone. You’re suffering from the same […]

Techies are heralding 3D television as the development that could save the industry from stagnation.

Female Facebook users are posting the color of their bras in order to raise breast cancer awareness.

How are large groups of animals capable of astonishingly coordinated behavior? Do human crowds behave according to similar logic? This week Princeton evolutionary biologist Iain Couzin, a specialist in self-organized pattern […]

New research has found that there is an increased presence and severity of coronary artery plaques in men infected with HIV.

Officials are warning that the World Cup in South Africa could be a public health disaster with half the nation’s prostitutes carrying HIV and half a million football fans expected in the region.

Plastic Logic finally released its much-anticipated QUE reader today, along with news of agreements that a forest full of books, magazines and newspapers will be available on the device. The […]

For a long time, it seemed like primitive 3D technology (and the word “technology” was used pretty loosely back then) did very little to enhance the entertainment experience. But with […]

How many parasites live inside us? What is the relationship between internal parasites and allergies? And could one parasite even have affected our brain chemistry over the course of millennia? Science […]

Fat mass is important for increasing bone size in girls according to researchers who found that excessive dieting in young women greatly increases the risk of osteoporosis.

Fossilised footprints dating back 395m years have shed new light on the “evolutionary milestone” of the transition of aquatic fish into terrestrial animals.