Archive for the ‘Science & Nature’ Category

Experts have discovered a canal at an Aswan rock quarry that they believe was used to help float some of ancient Egypt’s largest stone monuments to the Nile River.

Experts are now telling us computer games are good for kids.

A study has found children who play computer games before school achieve better grades than those who don’t.

A cold spot in the oldest radiation in the universe could be the first sign of a cosmic glitch that might have originated shortly after the Big Bang, British and Spanish scientists said on Thursday.

Their manes of black hair and dark, thick-set features are the stuff of legend.

But some Neanderthals actually sported fiery red locks and pale skin, a study suggests.

The human race will one day split into two separate species, an attractive, intelligent ruling elite and an underclass of dim-witted, ugly goblin-like creatures, according to a top scientist.

A few nights without sleep can not only make people tired and emotional, but may actually put the brain into a primitive “fight or flight” state, researchers said on Wednesday.

Michelle Hammond and Jeremiah Holland were intrigued when a friend at the Oakland Tribune asked them and their two young children to take part in a cutting-edge study to measure the industrial chemicals in their bodies.

Humans could marry robots within the century. And consummate those vows.

Admit it — at one point or another we’ve all dreamed of being able to teleport. How much easier and less stressful life would be if, at the flick of a switch, we could whisk ourselves direct from home to work without the intervening two hours crushed onto public transport, face wedged into the armpit of an overweight man with a sweat gland problem.

Greenhouse gases are making the earth’s atmosphere wetter and stickier, which may lead to more powerful hurricanes, hotter temperatures and heavier rainfall in tropical regions, British researchers reported on Wednesday.