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Researchers who followed Blondie suggest that rock and roll drummers get an aerobic and anaerobic workout just like elite athletes.
There is speculation that Apple will announce its much rumored tablet computer in San Francisco late this January.
New findings show that maternal behavior encourages the formation of new neural connections in the brain.
That Apple purchased the domain name islate.com back in 2007 might hint at the name of its oft rumored tablet computer.
Canadian police are considering giving GPS bracelets to Alzheimer sufferers in order to find them should they become lost.
Recent discoveries about how the brain stores memories may aid the development of drugs to treat diseases like Alzheimer’s.
Just in time for the holidays comes a study that says loneliness spreads like a disease through people’s social networks. In other words, that sad, isolated feeling is contagious. It’s […]
Liberal cynicism about healthcare parallels the feelings of political indifference that elected George Bush, writes The New Republic.
New research suggests that small changes in rock stress along the San Andreas Fault could trigger an earthquake—the earthquake.
A woman dressed in a red jumper leapt over guardrails in Rome to tackle the Pope during the Christmas Mass procession.
When I was a kid, I was an avid reader of just about anything between two covers, but I had a special place in my heart for encyclopedias. Back in […]
The poor face a greater health burden than smokers or the obese according to a new study published in the American Journal of Public Health.
The latest astronauts to reach the International Space Station have kicked off a Space-based Christmas by arriving wearing Santa hats, elf costumes and clutching a Christmas tree.
Chimpanzees remain remarkably cool when faced with fire and are able to react with “near human ability” to protect themselves under threat from wildfire, according to scientists.
The issue of abortion could still blow up the Democrat’s move to pass a universal health care bill according to pro-life activists and some Republicans.
Henrietta Lacks, a thirty-one year old African American mother of five from Baltimore, died of cervical cancer in 1951. By the time she passed away, her cancer cells had been […]
A new study, dubbed the “smiley scale”, has ranked each American state by happiness – revealing that dwellers of the Big Apple were the least, er smiley.
The angels, cherubs and putti depicted in Christmas nativity scenes are “anatomically flawed” according to a scientist who claims they would never be able to fly with their flimsy wings.
A 125m-year-old dinosaur species resembling a bird used venom to subdue its prey according to a new theory based on the shape of some of the creature’s teeth.
The US Army general in northern Iraq has added pregnancy to the list of behavior which could lead to a court martial while serving under his command.
Israel has admitted harvesting organs from the bodies of Palestinians and Israelis without permission from their families during the 1990s.
A satellite has captured images of “night-shining clouds”, which form at high altitudes and glow after night falls, and NASA has used them to create a new map of the formations.
Scientists paid a load of young people to get drunk and then analysed the results to find out which alcoholic beverages produced the worst hangover – with interesting results!
Yale psychology professor Paul Bloom loves investigating the things that make our minds uniquely human, from fiction and art to religion and morality. But where many scientists would be content […]
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured new images of a nebula in our galactic neighborhood just in time for the holidays.
Scientists have created synthetic red blood cells that can effectively carry oxygen as well as medicine throughout the body.
A new study indicates that drinking dark liquors like Bourbon is more likely to give you a nasty hangover than clear liquors such as Vodka.
Scientists may have discovered a batch of the mysterious dark matter which makes up 95% of the universe in—Minnesota. Where else?
Researchers claim a woman’s attractiveness is not in the eye of the beholder but is instead to do with the “golden ratio” or distance between key facial factors such as nose and mouth.
Physicists believe they have discovered “a ghostly sea of subatomic particles known as dark matter” at the bottom of an old iron mine in Minnesota.