A primary school science project has for the first time appeared in Biology Letters on Wednesday, which is an internationally recognized peer-reviewed academic journal.
Children in rural Nepal whose mothers were given iron and folic acid supplements during pregnancy were smarter, more organized and had better fine motor skills than children whose mothers did not get them, US researchers said on Tuesday.
A US environmental group has found that drinking water in 35 American cities contains hexavalent chromium, a probable carcinogen, The Washington Post reported Sunday.
Weather permitting, sky gazers in North and Central America and a tiny sliver of South America will boast the best seats to this year's only total eclipse of the moon just days before Christmas.
When the famous hologram of Princess Leia says, "Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi," in the movie "Star Wars," it's science fiction. Now you can watch actual moving holograms that are filmed in one spot and then projected in another spot.
Puzzle making is an ancient pastime. Several precocious papyri and other artifacts exist that display Egyptian mathematical ingenuity.
Who has seen the mind? Neither you nor I - nor any of the legions of neuroscientists bent on opening the secrets of that invisible force, as powerful and erratic as the wind.
Australian experts on Thursday said they have been "blown away" by the case of a man cured of HIV, yet they caution his treatment was too risky to be offered broadly to the world's HIV-infected population.
Two groups of scientists are suggesting a sliver of hope for the future of polar bears in a warming world.
German researchers who used a bone marrow transplant to treat a cancer patient with the AIDS virus, have declared him cured of the virus.
After nine months of tests, researchers in France have identified the head of France's King Henry IV, who was assassinated in 1610 aged 57.
The H1N1 swine flu virus which swept the globe last year has returned to Britain with 10 people dying in the last six weeks, health officials said on Saturday.