While video games have a reputation of being an empty, mindless and vapid exercise in meaningless pursuit of non-existent goals, there are many ways through which they could educate today’s...

Type 1 diabetes requires constant injections of insulin in order to keep blood sugar levels stable. A golden labrador dog belonging to one of the patients with this disease can easily detect and warn...

Fragrance companies always strive hard to bottle up unique scents while some of these scents can actually be called out of this world. Now, a new perfume which smells like the surface of a comet has...

Humankind is running out of Helium gas. Helium doesn't just make your voice squeaky, it is critical to many things we take for granted, including MRI scanners in medicine, welding, industrial leak...

Sending text messages on a smartphone or iPad can change the rhythm of brain waves in humans -- a finding that has significant implications for brain-computer interfacing, gaming and driving....

US space agency NASA is set to test-fire a booster for the world's most powerful rocket Space Launch System (SLS) which will power astronauts on the journey to Mars and on other deeper space...

The 37,000-year old remains of the "Deep Skull" -- the oldest modern human discovered in South-East Asia -- was not related to indigenous Australians, as had been originally thought, says a new...

Cozmo is so cute that it almost hurts. The small robot is shaped like a bulldozer with a CRT monitor inside. It sits on a charging dock, snoring, until you are ready to play with it. Like WALL-E,...

Earth magnetic field is a shield that deflects high energy particles and protects humans from harmful cosmic radiations. Without it, life as we know could not exist on Earth’s surface. The...

Researchers at the George Mason University found out that people who use brain training programs aren't actually getting the great results they think they are getting. In fact, the whole thing might...