Study Links Syria Conflict to Drought Made Worse by Climate Change
Drawing one of the strongest links yet between global warming and human conflict, researchers said Monday that an extreme drought in Syria between 2006 and 2009 was most likely due…
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A Test For Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
By Nathan Collins Chronic Fatigue Syndrome affects one million Americans, according to recent estimates. Yet there’s no reliable lab test for the illness, and researchers are still struggling to understand…
Scan reveals 1,000-year-old mummified monk hidden in statue
But it wasn’t until a team of researchers and scientists did a CT scana comprehensive three dimensional x-ray imagelast year, did they discover the mummy’s organs were missing. “We thought…
Scan reveals 1000-year-old mummified monk hidden in statue
Researchers discovered the mummy, encased in a cavity in the statue when a private buyer brought it to the Drents Museum in the Netherlands for restoration. But it wasn’t until…
Sea Levels Along The Northeast Rose Almost 4 Inches In Just 2 Years: Study
Sea levels across the Northeast coast of the United States rose nearly 3.9 inches between 2009 and 2010, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Arizona…
The eternity drive: Why DNA could be the future of data storage
While this census has only been running five years, the statistics show a 22% attrition rate over four years. Some may last longer than a decade, the company says, others…
Volunteering Surprisingly Makes You Feel Like You Have More Free Time
I spend most Sunday afternoons hanging out with elementary and middle school kids, simplifying fractions, playing Connect Four and getting reacquainted with the basic rules of spelling. I recently learned…
Volunteering Surprisingly Makes You Feel Like You Have More Free Time
I spend most Sunday afternoons hanging out with elementary and middle school kids, simplifying fractions, playing Connect Four and getting reacquainted with the basic rules of spelling. I recently learned…
Huge New Holes In Siberia Have Scientists Calling For Urgent Investigation Of Mysterious Craters
Scientists were baffled last July when they discovered three giant holes in the ground in the Yamal Peninsula in northern Siberia. Now, with the help of satellite imagery, researchers have…
Polluted Air Cuts Years Off Lives of Millions in India, Study Finds
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — More than half of India’s population lives in places with such polluted air that each person loses an average of 3.2 years in life expectancy, according…
Scientists Shed Light on Circuits That Control Genes
More than 200 scientists working on an ambitious federal project have begun to understand the complicated system of switches that regulates genes, turning some on and others off, making some…
Robert Ferrante’s Cyanide Poisoning Conviction Should Be Tossed Out: Defense
A defense attorney says a former Pennsylvania medical researcher’s murder conviction in the cyanide poisoning death of his neurologist wife should be thrown out because he was convicted solely on…
Newly Discovered Exoplanet With Extreme Seasons Called A ‘Real Maverick’
Two groups of astronomers working independently in Germany have discovered a massive new exoplanet that’s quite strange–for a few reasons. The newfound exoplanet, dubbed Kepler-432b, was monitored by NASA’s Kepler…
Toronto Jane’s Twitter trail through Syria
Jeff Weyers, a senior analyst with the Canadian counterterror research group iBRABO, has been tracking her movements through Syria with every tweet. “I don’t think she knew that she was…
After Record-Breaking Wave Of Abortion Restrictions, Republicans Still Aren’t Satisfied
The percentage of Americans who say they’re satisfied with the current abortion policies in the United States has dropped to the lowest point in more than a decade, according to…
Bubonic Plague in the Subway System? Don’t Worry About It
No human being has caught it in New York City for at least a century, but still, there it was, researchers said, in places touched by hundreds, maybe thousands, of…
NASA’s Latest Robot Is Exploring Earth’s Volcanoes
Sure, lava is amazing. But for geologists, the real intrigue lies just below the volcanic surface. It’s why researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) are developing small machines, called…
Scientists Swabbed New York City’s Subways, And You Won’t Believe What They Found
Mozzarella. Bubonic plague. Kimchi. Staph. What could these things possibly have in common? They’re all among the strange set of substances DNA-hunting scientists identified in New York City’s subway cars…
Arthur G. Dozier School’s Horrors Detailed In Report
As the bodies exhumed from dozens of old graves at a shuttered Florida reform school continue to yield grudging answers to stubborn mysteries, researchers investigating the cases this week released…
Ancient Grave In Siberia Yields Earliest Example Of Twins
An ancient tragedy is shining new light on life in the Neolithic Era, as archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a woman who appears to have died with her twins…
Two Bronze Sculptures Are Attributed to Michelangelo
If the attribution is confirmed, the sculptures would be the only known surviving bronzes by Michelangelo, according to the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge, which is displaying the works beginning Tuesday….
5 Ways Music Improves Our Health
By Jill Suttie When I gave birth to my first-born, I listened to CDs of classical music in the hospital. I figured that music would help calm me and distract…
Strange New Tattoo Discovered On ‘Ötzi The Iceman’ Mummy
Researchers in Italy announced this week that they had discovered a strange new tattoo on the ribcage of the 5,300-year-old mummy known as Ötzi the Iceman. The find raises to…
Neuroscientist Richard Davidson On How Happiness Can Be Learned
We often think of happiness as something we need to pursue, but researchers may suggest otherwise. It turns out that joy isn’t as elusive as we think — in fact,…
Coffee May Cut Melanoma Risk
Researchers used health and dietary data on 447,357 non-Hispanic whites ages 50 to 71 who were cancer free at the start of the study and followed them for an average…
California’s Forests Have Lost Half Their Big Trees, And Climate Change May Be To Blame
California’s biggest trees are doing a disappearing act, and researchers say the disturbing pattern may be strongly driven by climate change. A study published Tuesday in the journal Proceedings of…
Underimmunized, Unvaccinated Families Cluster Together, Study Says
BY ANDREW M. SEAMAN Mon Jan 19, 2015 9:37am EST (Reuters) – Families with underimmunized or unvaccinated children tend to cluster together, a new study shows. Underimmunization is tied to…
Kids Should Eat Less Pizza, Researchers Say
By: Bahar Gholipour Published: 01/19/2015 03:04 AM EST on LiveScience Kids in the United States eat so much pizza that some researchers now argue the food should join the ranks…
Circumcision Linked To Autism In Controversial New Study
A controversial new study from Denmark shows a link between circumcision and autism, although experts differ sharply over what to make of it. For the study, published online Jan. 8,…
Helping blind dogs see could help fight human blindness
By uncovering canine eye mutations, veterinary researchers are coming closer to understanding two of the most common diseases that cause blindness: glaucoma and retinitis pigmentosa. It turns out that dogs’…