Recent research performed on domesticated cat DNA at the Institut Jacques Monod, in France, has discovered that the domesticated cat seems to have populated itself around the world by traveling the oceans with humans. The scientists collected and examined the DNA of 209 dead cats that they found all across Europe, Africa and the Middle …
Not all humans are capable of making moral judgments. This seems to be something that science is continually unable to see. However, for those humans that have consciences, and who develop what has become known as a “moral sense”, it has been a long held belief for scientists that adults and children don’t see moral judgments …
Scientists at the University of North Carolina have taken a huge step forward with regard to battling a rare brain tumor by using regular skin cells. The skin cells are actually being turned into hunters as they are injected into a particular part of the brain and they are able to track the cancer cells …
Her name is Rachael Warwick and she is deathly allergic to water. What? Rachael suffers from one of the rarest afflictions known to humans: aquagenic urticaria. It is so rare that it only afflicts one out of every 250 million people. For Rachael, it is no laughing matter, or a crying one for that matter. …
A recent study performed at the University of Durham, in Durham, England, involved itself with the reason why so many people are drawn to sad music. The researchers tried to understand the paradox they see everywhere. People, in general, try to avoid sadness in their day to day life but so many are drawn to …
Yale University researchers have completed a study that suggests that a computer based training program, known as Activate, as well as video games can improve learning. The Yale study looked at 500 second graders and their reading and math scores received on school directed standardized tests. The conclusions stated that such brain activated training programs, …
The possibility, and the reality, of large crowds stampeding in a emergency is, sadly, no longer a possibility. From live shooters at crowded international airports, to huge sporting or entertainment events, to religious congregations at such sites as Mecca, the danger of stampeding people who have no where to go is all to frighteningly real. …
Two Stanford research scientists have developed a system whereby monkeys are able to text up to 12 words a minute. The researchers believe that their work is going to be able to help those with afflictions that prevent them from communicating effectively. They think, they say, that these new experiments will design more effective technology …
A French research company called Kallistem has announced that they have created human sperm in controlled laboratory conditions. The research team claims, that after 20 years, they now have it down to a process that takes 72 days to complete. This has never been done before. In 2011, Japanese scientists created rat sperm and the …
White orcas, or killer whales, were once so rare that scientists only counted one of them on the entire planet. Now, it seems, there are a few that have attracted the attention of researchers located in the northern and western part of the Pacific Ocean. One was spotted recently, once again, and seems to be the …