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Linguists Employ Ultrasound to Unravel Mysteries of Ancient Tongues
Many linguists believe the ancient "African click languages" hold the key to understanding the ancestry and evolution of human language. Approximately 30 cultural groups still actively speak the...
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First X-Ray Picture of Lightning Taken
Think, for a moment, about lightning. With all our talk of sci-fi and high-tech, we often forget that, in our world, since long before the dawn of man, rays of fatal electricity have shot down from the...
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Harvard Scientists Disclaim Teen Hearing Loss Epidemic
Last summer, researchers from the Channing Laboratory at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston concluded that teen hearing loss has drastically increased over the last 20 years. The scientists based...
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NASA Attack on Absurd Sci-Fi Destroys the Myths of '2012'
Ridiculous and implausible science fiction movies number in the thousands, but one particularly absurd film has actually provoked public admonishment from NASA. According to The Australian, NASA...
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Oregon Scientific Lets You Build Your Own Weather Lab
Every year at CES, we look forward to the strange offerings from Oregon Scientific, which always debuts some new, geeky gadget of questionable usefulness. This year, the thing that has us scratching...
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New Smartphone App Determines Probability of Successful In-Vitro Fertilization
British researchers have developed a new formula capable of predicting any couple's chances of having a baby through in-vitro fertilization (IVF) with up to 99-percent accuracy. Devised by researchers...
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Dental Drill Noise-Canceling Device Connects With MP3 Players
For many people, the mere sound of a dentist's drill starting up is enough to make them sweat and panic. But researchers have created a new device that cancels out the drill's high-pitched whir while...
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Google Science Fair Is Global Competition for Genius Kids
Google appears to be tired of waiting for potential genius engineers to do things like graduate college. The company has instead decided to launch the Google Science Fair, a competition that asks 13-...
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Human Brain Operates Like Facebook, Study Claims
Share Got Facebook on the brain? It could be because Facebook is your brain. Sort of. That's what Carnegie Mellon neurology researcher Alison Barth claims in a new study published in the December 22nd...
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Earbuds Radiate the Blues Away With Light Beams to the Brain
Share In the midst of a particularly frigid and brutal winter, fighting the debilitating effects of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) grows increasingly difficult. A group of scientists believe a new...
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Study: More Screen Time Increases Risk of Heart Attack, Stroke, Death
You can work out all you want, but if you spend a good part of the day sitting in front of a TV or computer screen, you could still be putting your health at serious risk. According to a new study...
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'POND PONG' and 'PAC-mecium' Games Run on Living Organisms
Most video games offer some sort of escape from reality, but researchers at Stanford University are now working to inject actual life back into the gaming ecosystem -- one single-celled organism at a...
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Cookie Monster Teaches the Scientific Method in Interactive YouTube Vid
You can always count on 'Sesame Street' to teach our kids valuable lessons via TV, but now Cookie Monster has taken to YouTube to extend its educational reach. The show's first interactive YouTube vid...
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IBM's Watson Beats Humans in 'Jeopardy' Practice Round
When 'Jeopardy' legends Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter face off against IBM's Watson supercomputer next month, they'll be going up against a machine that clearly knows a thing or two about... well,...
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Researchers Use LCD Projectors to Control Worm Brains
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have discovered a way to use modified LCD projectors to control the brains and muscles of small creatures such as worms -- provided they've been...
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Kinect Hack Helps With Robotic Surgeries
While surgical robots are much more precise than clunky human hands, the surgeons who use these devices aren't able to guide the 'bots with their natural sense of touch, and this can make it easier to...
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Auburn Developing Hi-Tech, Remote Doggie Guidance System
Auburn University's Canine Detection Research Institute (CDRI) endeavors "to develop and innovate unique and novel applications for detection dogs." Well, the renowned Institute's new high-tech...
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Laser Wand Scans Molecules for Melanoma Within Seconds
Detecting potential skin cancer cells is an inexact process that depends on a doctor identifying a suspicious mole before waiting a few weeks for the biopsy results to come back from a lab. But...
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Statistics Prove Lottery Isn't a Game of Chance at All
The lottery's appeal stems from the fact that anyone could be a winner; it is a game of chance. But Canadian statistician Mohan Srivastava, who has degrees from MIT and Stanford, has realized one...
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Archaeologist May Have Found Over a Thousand Tombs with Google Earth
With the aid of revolutionary technology, archaeologists continue to expose exciting historical discoveries. According to The New Scientist, University of Western Australia professor David Kennedy has...
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