Fears are formed when we associate things with a strong, negative emotional response. Now, a team of scientists have developed a technique which lets them erase new emotional memories from the human brain—which could make it possible to wipe out your fears for good. More »
Looking like something straight out of a sci-fi film, it might shock you to hear that these images aren't taken from the set of a new Alien film, but are real photographs of scientific experiments. More »
The key player in a movement challenging improper use of DNA testing and other elements of forensic science is the topic of a compelling cover story in this week's edition of Chemical & Engineering News. The story in the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society (ACS) - the world's...
Allah Almighty gave many graces for His creatures, even in the deep oceans, let us read and glorify God ....
When Prophet Moses went to the pharaoh calling him to believe in Allah, the pharaoh asked him who is Allah. Then Moses replied: (Our Lord is He who gave to each thing its form and...
Your brain needs to clean itself. Not because it's cluttered with inane thoughts or clogged by your filthy sense of humor, but because—like every other organ—it creates waste products. Now, scientists have worked out how it keeps itself clean. More »
This might just look like a microscope image of some strange, small life-form. But actually its a view of a massive 281-gigapixel image of a zebrafish embryo, which can be zoomed in on to show sub-cellular levels of detail. More »
confirmed to have happened? I am not talking about the spiritual prophecies, I am talking about the down to earth ones like the one which said ("Israel will become a nation again)
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Try to keep up with the endless torrent of video content on the web each day, and your brain could melt. Let us ease your fatigue with a selection of the best videos of the week. Enjoy! More »
It's the age-old question. What's going to get you less wet, sprinting through the rain or walking normally? There are a lot more factors involved than you might have thought, but physics dictates that running as fast as possible will normally keep you drier, unless there's a tailwind, or, err...
It looks like a wisp of smoke or even the work of a very confused spider, but this is actually a close up of the lightest material that has ever been created. More »
Modern society is obsessed with weight: everyone longs to be skinny, and obesity is demonized. But while being overweight does carry with it health risks, a new study suggests that being underweight is far more dangerous than being obese. More »
A new study found that women who are infected with the parasite T. Gondii (which is transmitted in cat poop) have an increased risk of committing suicide. And while pregnant women have long been cautioned not to handle cat excrement because of the risk of toxoplasmosis, the mental health link is...
At a meeting held at CERN this morning, scientists presented the latest results from the search for the long-sought Higgs particle. After 30 years of research and $9 billion of investment, they've changed the face of physics forever: they've found the Higgs boson. More »
At the end of a sticky summer, your lawn furniture's going to be gross with mold, algae, moss, fungi, or other bacterial yuck. You get to go in and take a shower after a day in the sun, but your furniture just festers. Unless it's made with titanium dioxide, as these German researchers...
Modern cancer therapies start in cells - researchers compare cancer samples to healthy cells to discover how cancer is genetically different, and use cell lines to test promising new drugs. However, a University of Colorado Cancer Center study published in the journal Gynecologic Oncology shows...
...floating through the air.? I think I saw it on the 4:30 Movie in New York the scene had a guy in a suit floating sideways through the air. I think it was a Japanese movie-science fiction.
Ebola is an incredibly aggressive virus that kills 90 percent of people it infects, and it is often feared that its use as a biological weapon could wipe out millions of people—because it has no known cure. Now, though, scientists are one step closer to finding a solution, because they can now...