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Why Are People in the Mediterranean Moving Away From the Mediterranean Diet?
The Mediterranean diet is prized for its nutritional value and health benefits. Since a 1970 study conducted by American scientist Ancel Keys found reduced rates of heart disease and longer lifespans...
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Can People Really Live for Years Without Eating or Drinking?
Scientists have investigated a few highly publicized cases of people who claim not to eat or drink for years, yet remain quite healthy. Any scientific investigations that have supported these claims,...
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Crying Babies Are Latest to Demand China Fix Its Smog Problem (Video)
In recent years, China’s epic smog problem has caused officials in Beijing to put up billboards of a fake sun because the real one was no longer visible. In some Chinese cities, 10 percent of the...
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Evidence Group Consciousness May Have a Physical Effect on the World
Studies at Princeton University have suggested that two or more minds that hold the same thought or emotion simultaneously may have a tangible effect on physical surroundings. The power of thought is...
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Hawkmoths Slow Their Brains to See in the Dark
It’s difficult enough to see things in the dark, but if you’re a hummingbird-sized hawkmoth you also have to juggle hovering in midair while tracking a flower that’s moving in the wind. Using...
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Indonesia at Risk From Huge Fires Because of El Niño
In 1997-98, extremely dry El Niño conditions in Indonesia kicked off a wave of large–scale uncontrolled burning, destroying about five million hectares of tropical forest (equivalent to seven million...
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Will NASA Mission Find a Salty Ocean on Europa?
Scientists believe Jupiter’s moon Europa may have a global ocean beneath an outer shell of ice—an ocean that could be hospitable to life. NASA is expected to launch a mission to Europa in the 2020s. On...
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Observing Psychokinesis in a Lab—Researchers Taking Psi Mainstream?
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.—Exuding mysterious and strange forces from one’s mind to bend a spoon or otherwise affect a physical object has long seemed to many a rather unscientific pastime. But in a...
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Are Older Fathers Really More Likely to Have Autistic Children?
Last month, the actress Maggie Gyllenhaal provoked outcries among feminists when she revealed that a Hollywood producer told her while casting for a film that at 37, she was too old to play the love...
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Wildman, China’s Version of Bigfoot: Sightings, Scientific Tests, Theories
All over the world are similar reports of a large creature that is ape-like, yet walks upright on two feet and displays other human characteristics. In North America, we know him as Sasquatch or...
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Americans Are More Bothered With Leaving the Lights on Than Wasting Food,...
About 31 percent of the total food supply in the United States goes to waste, but most American consumers are unaware of how much food they’re wasting. In fact, they are likely wasting more food than...
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Huge Dust Cloud Discovered Around the Moon—but ‘Lunar Glow’ Remains a Mystery
Astronauts on the early Apollo missions orbiting over to the dark side of the moon were surprised to discover a mysterious, bright crescent of light glowing at the horizon. The controversial...
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Save the Polar Bears? Save the Humans
Climate change is about more than melting ice caps and images of the Earth on fire, says Sean Valles, assistant professor in Michigan State University’s Lyman Briggs College and philosophy department....
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These Bacteria Leave Dangerous Uranium ‘Immobile’
A strain of bacteria that “breathes” uranium may be key to cleaning up polluted groundwater at sites where uranium ore was processed to make nuclear weapons. Scientists discovered the bacteria in soil...
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Into Thin Air—Do Humans Just Disappear?
I remember reading as a kid about Benjamin Bathurst, David Lang, and Oliver Larch. All three have strange stories of inexplicable disappearance. There are no accounts of UFOs carrying them off, no...
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Local Farming Can Feed Most of America, Says New Study
Farmers markets and farm-to-table restaurants are all the rage today. Food made from locally grown produce is considered more sustainable for the environment, and for the people who work the land....
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Musician Says Dead, Famous Composers Instructed Her to Create This Music...
In the 1970s, a British housewife earned fame as a composer and pianist with music she said was communicated to her by the spirits of dead, famous composers. Some musical experts of the time were...
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Legends Say Mysterious Women Built the Megaliths of Portugal
Prehistoric Europeans told legends about powerful, mysterious female makers of European stone tombs called dolmens and cromlechs. On the one hand, they were said to bestow riches and fertility on...
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Math Students Just Did Baseball a Huge Favor
Baseball’s major leagues have been using computers to produce their schedules for years, but for the minors, where resources are harder to come by, the schedules are produced manually—involving lots of...
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Green Energy Is More Popular If It’s the Default
Convincing people to buy into green, renewable energy plans could be as simple as making it their default option, a new study suggests. The economists—Sebastian Lotz, a research fellow at Stanford...
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Could Methane in Meteorites Feed Life on Mars?
Traces of methane have been discovered in Martian meteorites, causing researchers to speculate if that methane could feed microbe-like creatures on the Red Planet. Scientists examined samples from six...
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Claims About Crops Won’t Save Wild Bees
As wild bee diversity declines worldwide at unprecedented rates, 58 bee researchers call for conservation action—and not just for the species that pollinate our crops. “This study provides important...
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In 1665, Many Said They Saw a UFO Battle and Fell Sick Afterward
On April 8, 1665, around 2 p.m., fishermen anchored near Barhöfft (then in Sweden, now in Germany) reported seeing ships in the sky battling each other. After the battle, a dark object hovered in the...
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Hubble Confirms: Quasars Born From Galaxy Crash
Quasars emit a light as bright as that of one trillion stars. Scientists think they get their energy from supermassive black holes. But where do the supermassive black holes get their fuel? Hubble...
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Plasmonics: Revolutionizing Light-Based Technologies via Electron...
For centuries, artists mixed silver and gold powder with glass to fabricate colorful windows to decorate buildings. The results were impressive, but they didn’t have a scientific reason for how these...
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Will Head Transplants Create an Entirely New Person?
The world’s first full head transplant could take place as soon as 2017 if the controversial plans by Italian neuroscientist Dr. Sergio Canavero come to pass. Wheelchair-bound Valery Spiridonov, who...
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What Is Reality?
Just because it’s all in your head, doesn’t mean it’s not real. “Reality” is often defined by differentiating the physical state of things (as they “actually exist”) from the concept of those things...
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We Owe Caterpillars for Spicy Mustard
The next time you put mustard on a hotdog or horseradish on a burger, thank caterpillars and brassica for that extra flavor. While these condiments might be tasty to you, the mustard oils that create...
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Dry Winters Threaten California Wildflowers
Native wildflowers in California are losing species diversity after multiple years of drier winters, according to a new study. The findings provide the first direct evidence of climate change impacts...
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The Ground Exhales: Reducing Agriculture’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions
The overwhelming scientific consensus is that gases produced by human activity are affecting the global climate. But even if you don’t believe the current warming of the global climate is caused by...
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Astounding Coincidences That Saved Lives During the Holocaust—Fate?
At precisely the moment of life or death for some prisoners during WWII, a strange coincidence directed their fate toward life. Amazing coincidences continued after the Holocaust in the strangely...
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Pure Tones Make It Tougher to Isolate Noises
In a noisy restaurant, music plays, glasses clink, and servers discuss the specials. All of these sounds hit the eardrum at the same time, yet conversation continues easily because of a process that...
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Dutch Court Orders Carbon Emissions Cuts to Protect Citizens
THE HAGUE, Netherlands—In a sweeping victory for Dutch environmental activists that could have global repercussions, a court ordered the government Wednesday to cut the country’s greenhouse gas...
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Don’t Fear Falling Into a Black Hole—You May Live on as a Hologram
In the movie Interstellar, the main character Cooper escapes from a black hole in time to see his daughter Murph in her final days. Some have argued that the movie is so scientific that it should be...
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Skeptical Scientists May Fail in Testing Psi—But Not Because Psi Isn’t Real
In many kinds of scientific experiments, researchers must protect against the experimenter effect. Scientists conducting experiments may give human subjects subtle cues as to their own biases. Body...
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Hypertrichosis, or ‘Werewolf Syndrome,’ Responsible for Werewolf Legends?
A rare genetic defect causes some people to be born with hair all over their bodies. Fewer than 100 cases of hypertrichosis, also known as “werewolf syndrome,” have been documented in scientific...
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Efforts to Produce Palm Oil Sustainably Are Actually Profitable for...
Palm oil is used to make many of the products we commonly use and consume: margarine, ice cream, lipstick, shampoo, washing detergent—just to name a few. As a result, our high demand for palm oil...
View ArticleFossils of Four Legged Fish Found in Arctic Back in Canada and On Display
OTTAWA—A 375-million-year-old fossil of a primitive fish that also sports features of the first four-limbed creatures is now in the hands of the Canadian Museum of Nature, the museum announced Tuesday....
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Is Space Tourism Traveling Faster Than Space Law?
Space tourism is fast becoming the new frontier in the transportation business. Driven by profit-making private venture capital, the push to offer customers some direct or indirect experience with...
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Do Emotions Like Shame Botch Psych Research?
Thomas Scheff would like psychologists to talk about emotion—not just to share feelings, but to advance science. According to Scheff, intuition could be the catalyst that lets psychology progress in...
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US Forced to Import Corn and Soy to Meet GMO-Free Demand
In the U.S. a shocking 88 percent of corn and 94 percent of soybeans are genetically modified. In order to ensure that your corn and soy are free of GMOs, you must buy organic. And while demand for...
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Does Consciousness Create Order, Reverse Chaos in the Universe?
According to the second law of thermodynamics, the universe is doomed. Part of this law, entropy, dictates that anything left to itself will head toward degeneration, disintegration, and chaos. Though...
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2,000-Year Old Roman Shipwreck Found Near Sardinia (Video)
The bottom of the sea contains many remnants from the past, and one piece of the history it holds has recently been located. A Roman ship, estimated to have wrecked about 2,000 years ago, was found on...
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Get Ready for New Horizon’s Flyby of Pluto
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft will fly through the Pluto system on July 14 at an angle of 46 degrees to the plane of the dwarf planet’s orbit, piercing the plane and then passing through the shadows...
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Astronomers See Dust That Formed Early Stars
For the first time scientists have observed the dust contents of galaxies as seen just 1 billion years after the Big Bang. Dust in galaxies is created by the elements released during the formation and...
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Low-Cost Water Splitter Makes Hydrogen for 200 Hours
A new water-splitting device can continuously generate hydrogen and oxygen for more than 200 hours—and requires only one catalyst. The device, described in Nature Communications, could provide a...
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Dinosaur Eggs Get Ready to Hatch Their Secrets—200 Million Years Later
In the late winter of 1976, the world famous fossil collector James Kitching was doing a survey near South Africa’s border with Lesotho. To his surprise he found a tiny clutch of six fossilized eggs...
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Coincidence Studies Gains a Foothold in Academia
Dr. Bernard Beitman will be teaching a course in Coincidence Studies at the University of Virginia this fall. It is the first course of its kind, and a big step toward establishing a formal study of...
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Mysterious, Giant Face Found on Cliff in Canada—Man-Made or Natural?
Parks Canada is trying to figure out how a face, estimated to be about 7 feet tall, appeared on a cliff in a remote region of Canada. It was discovered a few weeks ago by Hank Gus of the Tseshaht First...
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An Ancient Mystery: Searching for the Lost Tomb of Antony and Cleopatra
Mark Antony and Cleopatra are among the most famous pairs of lovers from the ancient world. Following their defeat at the Battle of Actium in 31 B.C., they took their final refuge from the victorious...
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