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Study tallies extra calories Americans consume in their coffee, tea

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A new study reveals how many extra calories Americans consume from sugar, fat and saturated fat when they flavor their coffee and tea drinks.Credit:...

Discovery of new fossil from half billion years ago sheds light...

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Scientists from universities of Leicester and Cambridge find an 'unfossilizable' creature.Credit: Dr Tom Harvey / University of Leicester Dr Tom Harvey from the Department of...

Plant regulatory proteins ‘tagged’ with sugar

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An illustration showing how a sugar molecule is attached to the protein when it undergoes the O-GlcNAcylation modification process. Credit: Courtesy of Shouling Xu...

New ocean observations improve understanding of motion

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Surface velocity vector and magnitude (in color) around the Hawaiian Islands on 25 March 2012 from simulation. Detailed circulation can be calculated where eddies...

Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope discovers the most extreme blazars yet

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Black-hole-powered galaxies called blazars are the most common sources detected by NASA's Fermi. As matter falls toward the supermassive black hole at the galaxy's...

Academics build ultimate solar-powered water purifier

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From the top left corner, moving clockwise, the four images depict: University at Buffalo students performing an experiment, clean drinking water, water evaporating, and...

Certain heart fat associated with higher risk of heart disease in...

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Two types of fat surround the heart, each with different links to heart disease risk.Credit: Rick Sciullo/UPMC A higher volume of a certain type of...

New study shows how plants fight off disease

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Hypothetical structural model of the assembly of TIR domains during signalling, from the SNC1 immunity receptor found in Arapidopsis plants. Individual subunits are shown...

Bag-like sea creature was humans’ oldest known ancestor

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Artist's reconstruction of Saccorhytus coronarius, based on the original fossil finds. The actual creature was probably no more than a millimeter in size. Credit:...

Both push and pull drive our Galaxy’s race through space

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Flow, antiflow illustration.Credit: Image courtesy of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Discovery of the “Dipole Repeller” confirms that both attraction and repulsion are at play...

Mindfulness motivates people to make healthier choices

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"Mindfulness is usually defined as having awareness of the present moment" and has been shown in previous studies to reduce negative reactions to emotionally...