science

People who play video games for even a small amount of time have superior perception and attention skills to those who don't play at...

Several research groups have recently showcased systems that use EEG to authenticate users with very high accuracy. Credit: © Christiaan Colen/ Flickr Cyber security and authentication...

Mathematical modeling of brain scans of patients with Alzheimer's disease and others at risk for the disorder has allowed the identification of three atrophy...

People who retain a particular bacterium in their gut after a bout of food poisoning may be at an increased risk of developing Crohn's...

Composite image of the Earth at night assembled from data acquired by the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite over nine days in April 2012 and thirteen days in October 2012. Population estimates based on similar satellite data can help improve vaccination campaigns. (Credit: NASA Earth Observatory/NOAA NGDC) Satellite images that capture short-term changes in population size in communities in the developing world can help vaccination campaigns achieve more complete coverage to...

Data shows benchmark gas prices ('Henry Hub' prices) in the past four years to be cheaper than coal from Appalachia for over 88% of...

Responding to a call from the American Academy of Pediatrics to reduce hospital-acquired infections in neonatal intensive care units across the country, researchers from...

Jonathan Hanson with the ichthyosaur skeleton at the School of Earth Sciences.Credit: Image courtesy of University of Bristol A new species of British ichthyosaur has...

Credit: SETI Institute It’s now the biggest single-dish radio telescope on Earth.  Settled down in the bumpy karst of China’s Guizhou province, about 1200 miles southwest...

Archaeologists have created a new database from the teeth of prehistoric humans found at ancient burial sites in Britain and Ireland that tell us...

Affordable child care and flexible work schedules have all been topics of debates in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign.Yet, according to a new study...